Sustainability

Employees and guests look at the fuel- efficient jet engine installed on Air Canada's new Boeing 787 Dreamliner in March. A small Ontario company aims to reduce fuel consumption of jet engines even further.

Air travel

Small firm keen to soar by cutting jet engine fuel consumption

Jet engine manufacturers and airlines urged to consider nanotech coating process developed by EnvAerospace Mar 29, 2012 2:10PM EDT 0

Sourcing

Costco muffins? Mom-and-pops can do better

Many small businesses don’t ‘walk the talk’ when it comes to buying local Mar 23, 2012 5:00AM EDT 0

Humber College’s Centre for Justice Leadership most recently was a car dealership.

Don’t knock down that 50-year-old building; re-skin it

Awards focus attention on making older structures more energy efficient – and better looking Mar 22, 2012 11:48AM EDT 0

Sam Franklin, founder of Greenvelope LLC.

Internet

Dorm-room startup finds a bridal niche

Like Evite but for weddings and other fancy events, Greenvelope has caught on Mar 16, 2012 5:00AM EDT 0

Sustainability

The humble parking lot gets a green makeover

Channelling rainwater away from storm sewers is a good first step Mar 15, 2012 8:50AM EDT 0

Laura-Jean Bernhardson, founder and owner of Fresh Collective

Women's Week: Talking to Entrepreneurs

What Fresh Collective looks for in a designer

Besides the ability to produce high-quality products that suit Fresh Collective's target market, Laura-Jean Bernhardson says she looks for personality in a designer applying to the co-op Mar 06, 2012 11:15AM EST 0

Women's Week: Talking to Entrepreneurs

Fashion co-op gives designers a business boost

Laura-Jean Bernhardson talks about how her own inexperience in business helped give birth to the Fresh Collective University, a program to support designers and help them turn their vision into a reality Mar 06, 2012 11:15AM EST 0

Women's Week: Talking to Entrepreneurs

Co-op finds niche in Canada's evolving fashion scene

Laura-Jean Bernhardson, the founder of Fresh Collective, explains how a Saskatoon 'girl with a dream' built a sustainable fashion design business out of her living room Mar 06, 2012 11:15AM EST 0

Organics

Eco-entrepreneurs put food scraps to work

Vancouver-based Urban Impact makes business case for dealing with waste organics Mar 06, 2012 5:00AM EST 0

This hallway at Oxfam shows LEED paint, recyclable non-glue carpet tiles, recycled glass window, natural light from sky light over stairwell just out of the photo.

Sustainability

‘Walking the talk’ and going green pays off

Oxfam Canada is the latest to find advantage in being kind to the environment Mar 02, 2012 10:53AM EST 0

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1.	Costco muffins? Mom-and-pops can do better
2.	Dust to dust: the case for a green burial
3.	Small firm keen to soar by cutting jet engine fuel consumption
4.	Sports complex gets its kicks by going green
5.	Don’t knock down that 50-year-old building; re-skin it
6.	Canada playing catch-up in social enterprise
7.	Helping companies do the right thing
8.	Gen Y seeks responsible employer who listens
9.	Reduce your environmental footprint, one step at a time
10.	From business failure to lucrative green niche

1.	RIM’s chief legal officer quits
2.	Postmedia chopping newsroom jobs
3.	Why Facebook would be smart to buy RIM
4.	Mother reunited with two children who went missing four years ago
5.	CP strike to end within days
6.	Joanne Kates signs off after 38 years as the Globe's restaurant critic
7.	Buy RBC shares now while they’re down, urges Desjardins
8.	Engine failure forces emergency landing of Air Canada 777 in Toronto
9.	Naked attacker was chewing on man’s face before police fatally shot him
10.	Young, hot and a triple threat, plus other weekend stories you should read

1.	Baird condemns ‘depravity’ of Syria’s latest wave of violence
2.	Tory MP appeals ruling that sets stage for Toronto by-election
3.	Talks to end CP strike break down
4.	Liberals team up with Green chief in bid to stall Tory budget bill
5.	Student leaders' talk turns to compromise in Quebec tuition-fee battle
6.	Quebec students, government to return to bargaining table
7.	Toronto Mayor Rob Ford no longer ‘cutting the waist’
8.	Ryder Hesjedal wins Giro D'Italia
9.	Harper is right: Foreign radicals are after the oil sands
10.	Sherpas recover body of Canadian climber who died on Everest