REPORTS – OVERVIEW OF CORPORATE AND COMMUNITY SUSTAINABLE ENERGY INITIATIVES SINCE 2006 AND 2007 ENERGY USE INVENTORY FOR LONDON & STATUS OF ACTIVITIES AND INFORMATION DEALING WITH THE AIR QUALITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT OF VEHICLE IDLING

The reports the city provided on their initiatives are attached (15 item-151- OVERVIEW OF CORPORATE AND COMMUNITY SUSTAINABLE ENERGY INITIATIVES SINCE 2006 AND 2007 ENERGY USE INVENTORY FOR LONDON) & (23 item-231 – STATUS OF ACTIVITIES AND INFORMATION DEALING WITH THE AIR QUALITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT OF VEHICLE IDLING).
We [...]

NEWS: Drive-thru bans and idling laws across the country

June 23rd, 2008
Several CanWest papers are reporting today about the various drive-thru and idling bylaws being considered by municipal governments across the country. You can read the article here: http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=1e61b866-ae7e-4f63-a412-38b349a45fb3. While this is not directly linked to the Council’s main campaigns, it is clearly an issue with momentum that chapters have [...]

Al Gore: A Generational Challenge to Repower America: Text from Speech – July 17th, 2008

Ladies and gentlemen:
There are times in the history of our nation when our very way of life depends upon dispelling illusions and awakening to the challenge of a present danger. In such moments, we are called upon to move quickly and boldly to shake off complacency, throw aside old [...]

Banning new drive-throughs small step for Londoners

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Banning new drive-throughs small step for Londoners – July 7th, 2008 – London Freepress
Parking your car, or better yet, walking or biking to restaurants, is a small price to pay to reduce air pollution and carbon emissions, despite the strongly negative response from [...]

Support from Denver Vale Nixon, BSc (Victoria), MES (York), MLIS (Western)

Dear Honourable Mayor DeCicco-Best:
I am a London homeowner and doctoral student at the University of Western Ontario (please see address below).  This afternoon I attended the meeting regarding drive-through (a.k.a. “drive-thru”) regulation in London, though perhaps “circus” would be a better description given the behaviour of the Tim Horton’s corporate supporters [...]

CTV News Live – Gov’t Assistance Non-Existant – The Children’s Clean Air Network

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qe4T25PtAU
CTV News Live at Five with a feature on The Children’s Clean Air Network

A Generational Challenge to Repower America (Part 1)

A Generational Challenge to Repower America (Part 1)

A Generational Challenge to Repower America (Part 2)

A Generational Challenge to Repower America (Part 2)

A Generational Challenge to Repower America (Part 3)

A Generational Challenge to Repower America (Part 3)

Drive-thrus – Think the impact is insignificant? Think again.

Hot off the press.
This study arrived Tuesday via courier.
We were prepared to present Tuesday night, however, as many of you are aware, democracy was not on the agenda Tuesday night at centennial hall.
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We have used the calculations provided to us in this study (idling times are completely in line [...]