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25 Mar 2009 / 11:48 am
Green Realtor Supports the Green Energy Act
B150 is an important piece of legislation.
The time of sale energy label is of particular importance to achieving the
13.8% energy production target from conservation.
I teach Realtors all over the province about climate change and energy
inflation. The consistent feedback regarding energy efficiency is that the
market is apathetic or uneducated about energy issues when purchasing.
Bill150 has the power to enable Ontario Realtors to put a value on home energy
efficiency, from insulated walls to GeoThermal heating systems, disclosure of
household energy performance is paramount to monetising energy efficiency at
time of sale.
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23 Mar 2009 / 12:38 pm
Solar-power feed tariffs windfall for homeowners
Solar-power feed tariffs windfall for homeowners
Mar 23, 2009 04:30 AM
Comments on this story (20)
Tyler Hamilton
Ontario’s power authority has proposed paying 80.2 cents for every kilowatt-hour it buys from a residential rooftop solar system.
That’s rich. It amounts to an 82 per cent increase over the previous rate offered under the province’s standard offer program, which was launched two years ago but failed to stimulate large-scale deployment of rooftop systems that was envisioned.
This time the government is more serious about driving demand. The ambitious aim is to see 100,000 solar rooftop systems deployed across the province as a result of the newly proposed rate, which is called an advanced feed-in tariff.
Link to the complete Toronto Star Article
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23 Mar 2009 / 12:35 pm
Greenwashing the Missing Link
The Missing Link
Jordy Gold
March 16, 2009 2:56 AM
For years sustainablists have been pushing the corporate sector to go green. A key question or doubt has hung over this push—will consumers really buy green stuff? For years pundits have pointed to polls that show that consumers are interested in buying green. The results have been mixed, if not downright negative, with green product sales often failing to live up to expectations.
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19 Mar 2009 / 11:26 am
Green Toronto Awards: Finalists Announced
Green Toronto Awards: Finalists Announced
Torontonians recognized for their contribution to greening our city
Toronto, ON, March 19, 2009 – The City of Toronto and Green Living are pleased to announce the finalists for the 2009 Green Toronto Awards. Selected from the largest number of nominations ever received by the City, the finalists are the individuals, organizations and companies making an outstanding contribution to a greener Toronto for us all.
Mayor David Miller, Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone, and actor and environmentalist Ed Begley, Jr. will announce the winners at the Green Toronto Awards ceremony on April 23, 2009 at the Direct Energy Centre, Heritage Court on the Green Living Show Main Stage. The public is invited to attend and cheer on the finalists at this free event which kicks-off this year’s Green Living Show. Award winners will also receive a $5,000 donation for a registered charity of their choice.
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15 Mar 2009 / 9:44 pm
World Class Solar Tariffs for North
March 12, 2009
By Paul Gipe
http://www.ontario-sea.org/Storage/30/2197_World_Class_Solar_Tariffs_for_North_America.pdf
(Toronto, Ontario) Ontario’s Minister of Energy and Infrastructure,
George Smitherman, announced today that the Ontario Power
Authority (OPA) will be establishing a system of feed-in tariffs as a
result of the pending Green Energy and Green Economy Act.
Minister Smitherman also released OPA’s proposed tariffs for a
host of renewable energy technologies.
If implemented, the package of tariffs will represent the first
application of Advanced Renewable Tariffs in North America. The
system of feed-in tariffs envisioned by Minister Smitherman is a
Canadian version of the successful policies used in Germany,
France, Spain, and several other European countries.
OPA will begin public consultation on the tariffs and elements of
the program March 17th and will continue hearings for the next
seven weeks.
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12 Mar 2009 / 9:01 pm
Green Your Home and Save
At TD Canada Trust, we are committed to helping protect the environment, so we want to support our customers as they make environmentally friendly choices. That’s why we offer the Green Mortgage and the Green Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC).
Limited Time Cash Rebate Offer1 – we will rebate up to 1.5% of the amount of the mortgage or the fixed rate portion of the HELOC when you make ENERGY STAR® qualified purchases.
Save money and help protect the environment with your green home improvement
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08 Mar 2009 / 8:12 pm
Time of Sale Energy Labeling on CBC’s Metro Morning
Chris Chopik Speaks With CBC’s Jan Hawtin about Time of Sale Energy Labeling
http://www.cbc.ca/metromorning/2009/03/02/
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02 Mar 2009 / 10:53 pm
Green Energy Act to Deliver Valuable Information to Consumers and Realtors
Mandatory time of sale energy labelling appears to be coming to Ontario. The Province of BC, the United Kingdom and myriad global jurisdictions have implemented time of sale energy labelling to protect consumers. Time of sale energy labelling will protect the home owning public from housing affordability issues in the face of energy inflation. The concept of a numeric index to score the ‘eco-friendliness’ is not new, but Green Energy Act Proposes a mandatory time of sale energy rating.
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02 Mar 2009 / 12:58 am
Get Paid to Invest in Your Greener Home
Renovating is costly, but there are grants available from the Federal and Provincial governments. If you are renovating, you should be taking advantage of incentive programs including ecoEnergy. As much as 10,000 dollars in grants are available for energy retrofits and green home improvements ranging from high efficiency furnace replacement to caulking and sealing the air leaks in your home.
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01 Mar 2009 / 10:45 pm
ecoENERGY for Buildings and Houses National
http://www.ecoaction.gc.ca/buildings
The Energy Efficiency Housing Initiative offers a variety of education programs for the residential (&
construction) sector on building new homes that are energy efficient, including guidelines to increase energy
efficiency by 30% compared to Provincial building codes, the EnerGuide rating system, and ENERGY
STAR® for New Homes.
Natural Resources Canada, OEE, Housing and Equipment Division
1-800-622-6232
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27 Feb 2009 / 2:57 pm
Home Energy Rating Act - Setting the Record to Customer Benefit
Location, location, performance
The cardinal rule of real estate is no longer location, location, location –21st century real estate is all about energy performance. This starts with home energy assessments. Helping the real estate industry and the home buying public to distinguish the energy performance of housing can only be accomplished en masse with time of sale energy assessments. And when analyzed, many of the opportunities to improve energy performance are profitable investments made more attractive by grants and incentives.
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27 Feb 2009 / 12:38 pm
11th Hour our collective actions have an impact
When teaching Realtors(r) across Canada about the evolution of the green real estate market I reference Leonardo DiCaprio’s 11th Hour as an exceptional recource for understanding the complext intersections of the economic and ecological systems and the opportunities for collective change.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdufr048KMc
This clip will show you the basics of what to expect from the movie.
Please accept this strong recomendation to see.
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24 Feb 2009 / 1:16 pm
Mandatory Energy Audits Green Energy Act Real Estate
McGuinty defends mandatory energy audits; says home buyers will get more clarity (**>Ont<**-Green-Energy-Act) TORONTO _ Premier Dalton McGuinty is defending a plan to saddle homeowners with a mandatory $300 energy audit as part of his Green Energy Act.
McGuinty says forcing people to conduct audits is a good idea because it will allow buyers to know what their energy costs will be.
He says home buyers are entitled to know what kind of costs they will incur at the time of purchase and make comparisons ``on an apples to apples basis.’’
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23 Feb 2009 / 10:10 am
Ontario aims to set continental standard with Green Energy Act
Ontario aims to set continental standard with Green Energy Act
Monday February 23, 2009 is a big day in Ontario, and potentially across Canada. The Ontario government will be tabling comprehensive green-energy legislation that, if it lives up to promises, will blow open the market and make Ontario *the* place in North America to develop renewable-energy projects and establish manufacturing and supply chains to support them. It will equally emphasize energy conservation, putting Ontario potentially in the league of Denmark, Germany and California.
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18 Feb 2009 / 11:16 pm
REALTORS® Ask City Budget Committee to Consider Impact of Land Transfer Tax
TORONTO, February 18, 2009 – With a deputation to the City of Toronto’s Budget Committee today,
Toronto’s REALTORS® are asking Council to consider the impact of the Toronto Land Transfer Tax on the
City’s economy.
“The current state of the economy requires every level of government, including the City, to take action,” said
Maureen O’Neill, President of the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB). “Not only does the City need to consider
what it can do to help, but also what it is already doing that is hurting the economy. Clearly, the Toronto Land
Transfer Tax is hurting the economy.”
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