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Sustaining our past for the future
Parks Canada has been giving Cape Breton’s Fortress Louisbourg a much-needed energy retrofit and the savings are impressive.
Going with the flow
Halifax Water is making clean, efficient energy from moving water… and that’s not all.
Rethinking and repurposing landfills
One innovative Nova Scotia company is recycling an impressive 90 per cent of what goes into landfills, but is it solving one problem only to contribute to another?
From wind to water
One Nova Scotia company’s game-changing recycling process not only turns old wind turbine blades into boats, it also provides a huge opportunity for recyclers looking to get into the fibreglass game.
Best laid plan
Can HalifACT, one of the country’s most ambitious climate plans, stay on track given challenges outside its control?
A fine counterbalancing act
For one young American climate researcher, what started as a fascination with the ocean has turned into a partnership with a Nova Scotia company working to fight climate change in a unique and potentially game-changing way.
Climate-ready forests
New Maritime research suggests better ways to support a more climate-resistant, carbon-sequestering forest.
Casting a green shadow
A partnership of non-profits and businesses are lighting the way for African Nova Scotian youth interested in careers in sustainable building.
Not so strange bedfellows
Affordable, net-zero energy housing planned for Yarmouth makes both environmental and financial sense.
The next clean energy frontier
Nova Scotia researchers look at the big issue around clean energy… how to store it.
Getting Zen about e-bikes
One Halifax startup is working toward a world-wide transportation revolution.
Managing expectations
One Atlantic Canadian non-profit evolves from a model of climate-proofing to climate adaptation.
A serendipitous find
When two Nova Scotia water quality researchers stumbled upon an unexpected climate change solution during research, they knew they were on to something big.
Teaching the “why”
Shawna Henderson, a leader in the field of green, net-zero housing in Nova Scotia and across the country, faced her environmental fears head-on to become a major player in the climate change arena.
Hope floats
Fishing vessels in Nova Scotia look toward a greener, quieter future thanks to some cutting edge, homegrown ingenuity.
Kelp is out there
A game-changing ocean crop with almost non-existent farm-to-table carbon emissions is waiting in the wings for its time in the sun.
