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Waste Treatment

Is This the Greenest Building in Canada?

David Dodge | Posted 04.13.2013 | Canada
Read More: Vancouver, Waste Treatment, Green, Green Building, Waste, British Columbia, University of British Columbia, Green Energy, Slidepollajax, Canada News
David Dodge

The Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability, or CIRS, building on the University of British Columbia campus is a building that nearly lives and breathes. Determining what the greenest building in Canada is a bit of a fool's errand. But if green is a journey to architecture that regenerates and repairs the environment around it then the CIRS building is something to aspire to.

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Turning Human Waste Into Energy Savings

David Dodge | Posted 03.17.2013 | Canada Business
Read More: Rural Communities, Biomass, Biofuels, Waste Management, Waste Treatment, Alberta, Waste, Slidepollajax, Canada, Rural Development, Camrose County, Alberta Willow Trees Energy, Willow Tree, Willow Trees Energy, Canada Business News
David Dodge

Sewage, biosolids, wastewater, effluent, human waste and night soil -- these are all euphemisms for poo. But instead of looking at it as something to be disposed of, why not use it to grow a crop that can heat our buildings, produce electricity or be used for compost? Camrose County in rural Alberta is doing just that.

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