News Releases 2007
- December 11, 2007
Ian Gill and Mike Vitt, Truck Logger Magazine, Winter 2007
As recently as a decade ago, B.C.’s forest industry considered itself – rightly or wrongly – to be surrounded on all sides by environmentalists promoting parks and protected areas.
- December 11, 2007
Brian Morton, Vancouver Sun, Tuesday, December 11, 2007
A Vancouver-based grocery delivery company plans to reduce its carbon footprint by 10 per cent next year. - December 11, 2007
Wendy Mclellan, The Province, Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Small businesses can make big changes to B.C.'s environmental performance by considering their own carbon footprint and how to reduce it.
- December 07, 2007
DECEMBER 10, 2007 (VANCOUVER) – As negotiations are underway for a U.N. agreement on climate change in Bali, Indonesia, a group of B.C. small businesses is announcing today that they are committing to cut and offset their greenhouse gas emissions on average by 64 percent or 999 tonnes next year.
- December 06, 2007
Jennifer Dart, Westerly News, December 6, 2007
A Ucluelet councillor would like to see the municipality push to secure fishing licenses
in order to keep the industry going in this rural community. - December 04, 2007
Cathryn Atkinson, The Globe and Mail, December 4, 2007
VANCOUVER -- When Ian Gill decided to leave his long, successful career in
journalism 13 years ago, the environment correspondent got a lot of offers from
organizations keen to employ the erudite ex-Vancouver Sun, ex-CBC staffer, but one in particular caught his eye. - November 15, 2007
Colleen Kimmett, TheTyee.ca, November 15, 2007
Simon Fraser University student Sean Peters saw first-hand the difference a small loan can make while making a documentary on microcredit in Mexico last summer. - August 27, 2007
AUGUST 27, 2007 (VANCOUVER) - In May 2007, Ecotrust Canada's Aboriginal Mapping Network reached an agreement with GeoConnections, the Haida Nation, and Lil'wat Nation to develop a web-based system that will enable them to respond more effectively to Crown Land Referrals
- July 20, 2007
Jeff Nield, Vancouver Courier, Friday, July 20, 2007
Standing on the south bank of the Fraser River a stone's throw from the Vancouver
International Airport, Dr. Hadi Dowlatabadi motions toward the frenetic activity at
the Olympic speed skating oval construction site. - June 29, 2007
JUNE 29, 2007 (VANCOUVER) – Ecotrust Canada, a nonprofit environmental and community development organization, is marching in unity with First Nations during the National Day of Action in Vancouver today.
- June 28, 2007
Ashley Ford, The Province, Friday, June 29, 2007
B.C. environmental groups and small business are taking tiny steps toward taking the carbon out of their footprint. - June 28, 2007
Dharm Makwana, Sun Media, June 29, 2007
VANCOUVER - A group of 13 small- and medium-sized B.C. businesses is about to learn the exact cost of going green. - May 07, 2007
Gordon Hamilton, Vancouver Sun, Tuesday, May 8, 2007
A coastal logging company has been lauded by the independent Forest Practices Board for its innovative harvesting practices that leave a lighter footprint on the environment.
- May 06, 2007
Stephanie Strom, The New York Times, May 6, 2007
- April 13, 2007
OTTAWA, April 13, 2007 /CNW Telbec/ - The Honourable John Baird, Minister of the Environment, today apologized to Ecotrust Canada for any inconvenience that may have ensued since the launch of the $1.5 billion Canada ecoTrust for Clean Air and Climate Change.
- April 04, 2007
Bryan Zandberg, TheTyee.ca, April 4, 2007
On the way in you have to hold your breath because the walls of Vancouver's Stanley Hotel double as a urinal for the drunk and the poor. Hold your breath, and weave through the people in ragged clothes making their way down the sidewalk. - April 04, 2007
Eric Akis, Victoria Times Colonist, April 4, 2007
For this month's version of our Best of the Island series, I didn't recruit a tasting panel, opting instead to report solo on some of the Island's best seafood shops.
- March 13, 2007
Rod Mickleburgh, The Globe and Mail, March 13, 2007
VANCOUVER -- Guess what? If you Google the federal government's hastily
assembled new green fund, Canada EcoTrust, you don't get Canada EcoTrust at
all. Or at least, not right away. - February 27, 2007
Gordon Hamilton, Vancouver Sun, February 27, 2007
The B.C. government says forest companies must switch over to a new legally binding planning process by the end of March, raising alarms in Clayoquot Sound where the province has excluded regionally developed plans that ensure the sound retains its special ecological status. - February 21, 2007
FEBRUARY 21, 2007 (VANCOUVER) – With the B.C. government introducing North America’s first carbon tax this week, Ecotrust Canada and the Pembina Institute are launching a new service to help small- and medium-sized enterprises reduce and offset their carbon footprint.
- February 01, 2007
Chad Hershler, Vancouver Magazine, January/February 2007
IT'S LATE JUNE—middle of halibut season—but Vic Amos isn’t anywhere near his boat.
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