It looks like an eco-friendly future can include culinary delights like artisan cheeses. Introducing the first Platinum LEED-certified dairy: Fifth Town Artisan Cheese Co., from Prince Edward County, Ontario.
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Who says a small group of people can’t accomplish great things? Take the 95 inhabitants of the Isle of Eigg, for example. This beautiful, unspoiled Hebridean Island, off the western coast of Scotland, was for a long time subject to neglect due to absentee landowners who did not invest in the tiny island.
Ontario, Canada, is to be home to the biggest photovoltaic solar power plant in North America, thanks to plans to increase capacity of the Sarnia Solar Project to 80 MW, an increase of 60 MW. In a joint venture to quadruple in size the Sarnia Solar Plant, Enbridge Inc. and First Solar Inc. expect to start the expansion in 2010 at a cost of approximately $300 million.
Dell has planted solar photovoltaic parking lot structures at their headquarters in Round Rock, Texas, an initiative that’s part of their long-standing commitment to sustainability.
The Tokai Challenger solar vehicle from Japan has won a sizzling victory in the 2009 Global Green Challenge, Southwest Airlines has announced its plans for a “green plane” and the United Nations has named Disney character Tinker Bell an Honorary Ambassador of Green.
In the context of today’s world, ‘consuming’ and ‘balance’ in the same sentence seems to be an oxymoron.
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