Environment

City shedding its industrial past to embrace environmentally friendly future

When Michael Shekhtman launched Eeko Couriers with his brothers in 2009, the economy was still in the midst of a global recession that left companies pinching pennies any way possible.

Region pushing awareness of program aimed at diverting organic waste from landfills

Green jobs in Vancouver increased 19% between 2010 and 2013, but more work is needed to meet ambitious City of Vancouver goals to become the “greenest city” in the world by 2020, according to a report released by the Vancouver Economic Co

A rat infestation on the grounds of a Vancouver daycare has been partly blamed on nearby compost bins used by community gardeners.

As the B.C. government pushes to expand the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry, a University of Victoria (UVic) report warns regulations over fracking-related wastewater deposited into decades-old disposal wells across the province are severely lacking.

Despite the ups and downs of forestry as a commodity-based industry, the bioenergy sector is poised to take it in a futuristic direction.

It’s been more than two decades since one of the most influential environmental regulatory bodies in the United States certified a solvent as containing no hazardous air pollutants.

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Hit with rising claims from catastrophic storms, the sector reassesses risk to cities