Environment

Ask your printer these questions to gauge its environmental performance in a number of key areas:

BDC Venture Capital has announced a new $100 million fund for smaller, scalable renewable energy and clean-technology projects.

A new tourist attraction hitting Vancouver’s waterfront will be powered entirely by green electricity, according to its operator.

The City of Burnaby has awarded the Burnaby Board of Trade (BBOT) its annual environmental star award for building and implementing a comprehensive online environmental resource.

Vancity has been chosen as one of Canada’s 50 most socially responsible companies in Maclean’s fifth annual survey of corporate social responsibility, the credit union announced Friday.

Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson’s aim has long been to make his city the world’s “greenest” by 2020, but according to researchers at Corporate Knights magazine, he has work to do.

The Tahltan Central Council says it has grave concerns about a coal mine proposed for the Klappan region in northern B.C.

B.C. startups want to make sustainable urban agriculture easy, local and profitable

Expansion means acid levels higher but other emissions lower

A team of climate scientists is warning energy minister Joe Oliver that his continued support of Canada’s oil and gas industry will have dire environmental consequences.