Premier Darrell Dexter, spoke to more than 70 business leaders from around the world at a reception in Copenhagen to showcase Nova Scotia's innovative green technologies last week. "Nova Scotia has an exciting story to tell about what we are doing to address climate change and other environmental issues while growing a sustainable, green economy," said Premier Dexter. Read more

Saving the world is all about our shared values, according to David Noble. The trick is finding ways to make these values real. You’ll be lucky to catch the Fredericton, NB native at his home in Guelph, ON. The reason is that saving the world means spending a lot of time visiting and working in different parts of it. Read more

TD bank recently announced an investment of over $50,000 in carbon credits that will benefit a provincially funded PEI wind farm. As the banking behemoth vies for carbon neutrality, critics are quick to point out that islanders aren’t the ones receiving the immediate benefits of this renewable energy source whose growth is just over the horizon. Read more

Waves of green energy will soon be lapping Nova Scotia’s shores. Nova Scotia Power has announced it will install a 1-megawatt tidal turbine that will be installed in the middle of the Bay of Fundy and will be an integral part of the power company’s tidal power testing facility. Read more

Two island brothers have turned a sour smelling garbage strike into a sweet smelling business idea. Bill and Bob Hennessey of Charlottetown have created a business called Toronto Sameday Garbage Removal in an effort to capitalize on the city worker’s strike and the piles of waste that have been growing since it began. Read more

When it comes to recycling, composting, lowering thermostats and installing high efficiency bathroom and light fixtures, the Green Gables province turns out to be the greenest of them all, according to a recently released 2006 Statistics Canada survey. Two-thirds of P.E.I. households fell into the very environmentally active category, that's nearly twice the number of households in the worst-performing provinces of Quebec and Manitoba. Read more