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Built Environment

Why is Ontario making new buildings less energy efficient?

by Chris Ballard

The province’s proposed building code is a step backward from net-zero

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Energy

A battle brews in U.S. over natural gas bans

by Alex Robinson

While more than 50 cities have banned natural gas infrastructure in new buildings, at least 20 states have barred such prohibitions

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Built Environment

What happened when NYC started naming and shaming buildings for bloated footprints

by John Lorinc

The city has pushed more landlords to decarbonize their buildings, but nearly half are still scoring Ds and Fs in its letter

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Built Environment

How to nail down the green renovation revolution

by CK Staff

Canada’s building emissions are at an all-time high. So how do we close the ‘say–do’ gap?

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Built Environment

Location, location, location: Three ways land use can tackle both the climate and housing crisis

by Steve Winkelman

We need to build more affordable ‘15-minute neighbourhoods’ where people can access what they need by foot, bike or transit

Built Environment/Climate Crisis/Leadership

Capital Plan for Clean Prosperity: Greening buildings would turbocharge Canada's GDP

by CK Staff

  With files from Aleena Naseem and Toby Heaps   Time is running out. According to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate

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How heritage helps the planet

by Ashley Renders

Heritage preservation, which has traditionally been populated by an older group of experts, is being shaken up as young people learn that

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Emergency: Code Green

by CK Staff

Dr. Jeff Thompson isn’t your typical clean energy advocate. A practicing pediatric intensivist and neonatologist, he took over as chief executive of

Fall 2013/Food/Perspectives/Sustainable Book Reviews

Waking the frog

by Lloyd Alter

In his new book, Waking the Frog, Tom Rand tackles the question of why we, like the metaphorical frog in the boiling pot, are just

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