London’s Building Retrofit Program – a Roaring Success

  GLOBE-Net, February 22, 2013 – Perhaps the most aggressive energy reduction, public-building retrofit program ever, London’s RE:FIT, is into its sixth year. Lessons learned from the work carried out so far were announced earlier this month. Resulting amendments...
Posted On 22 Feb 2013

Masdar Launches Renewable Energy Desalination Program

  GLOBE-Net, January 22, 2013 – Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s leading renewable energy company, has launched a pilot program to test and develop advanced energy-efficient seawater desalination technologies suitable to be powered by renewable energy sources. The long-term...
Posted On 22 Jan 2013

Ontario Closing Coal Plants Earlier Than Planned

The Ontario government has announced that the last coal plants in southern Ontario will shut down a year ahead of schedule.
Posted On 11 Jan 2013

Beyond City Limits – Planetary Stewardship in an Urbanizing World

  GLOBE-Net, November 13, 2012 – The sustainability of a city can no longer be considered in isolation from the sustainability of human and natural resources it uses from proximal or distant regions, or from the combined resource use and impacts of cities globally....
Posted On 13 Nov 2012

The GLOBE Series – Where to Now? A GLOBE-Net Editorial

  GLOBE-Net, March 21, 2012 – GLOBE 2012 has just wrapped up and a key message we are hearing from all sources is that this year’s GLOBE Conference was exceptional in terms of the quality of the dialogue and the excellence of the session speakers. And everyone...
Posted On 21 Mar 2012