Ontario is going to introduce a new, green license plate, available exclusively for plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles. And the benefits of the plates won’t just be aesthetic:

Electric vehicles with the plates will be able to travel in the province’s carpool lanes until 2015 — even if only one person is in the vehicle.

Owners of eligible vehicles can also use recharging stations at GO Transit and other provincially owned parking lots. Owners of those…

Do you have a great idea on how to make a positive change in your community? Enter it in the Aviva Community Fund competition and encourage others to vote for it! Aviva is providing a total of $500,000 to fund ideas that will make a positive impact in Canadian communities. A great idea could allow you to make your community a better place!

Your idea is something you think is important. It can be to help…

This is a great project by street artist Fauxreel called ‘The Unaddressed’, highlighting the human side of homelessness: http://unurth.com/69793

It’s funny how many studies have been done to prove that high-speed rail is a great idea. These reports tend to show that people would make ample use of such a train system, that the trains would pay for themselves off in a not-unreasonable amount of time, that they could cut people’s commutes, pollution and costs by a lot. All great stuff. And yet … where are our trains?

Another report has come out in Alberta, where…

Ontario is going to introduce a new, green license plate, available exclusively for plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles. And the benefits of the plates won’t just be aesthetic:

Electric vehicles with the plates will be able to travel in the province’s carpool lanes until 2015 — even if only one person is in the vehicle.

Owners of eligible vehicles can also use recharging stations at GO Transit and other provincially owned parking lots. Owners of those…

Do you have a great idea on how to make a positive change in your community? Enter it in the Aviva Community Fund competition and encourage others to vote for it! Aviva is providing a total of $500,000 to fund ideas that will make a positive impact in Canadian communities. A great idea could allow you to make your community a better place!

Your idea is something you think is important. It can be to help…

This is a great project by street artist Fauxreel called ‘The Unaddressed’, highlighting the human side of homelessness: http://unurth.com/69793

It’s funny how many studies have been done to prove that high-speed rail is a great idea. These reports tend to show that people would make ample use of such a train system, that the trains would pay for themselves off in a not-unreasonable amount of time, that they could cut people’s commutes, pollution and costs by a lot. All great stuff. And yet … where are our trains?

Another report has come out in Alberta, where…