TUI Student Travel (Canada) Group of Companies Neutralizes Carbon Footprint with Zerofootprint
Zerofootprint Enables Measuring, Management and Offsetting of Carbon for All Land Transportation Components of TUI Educational Tours
TORONTO – Feb. 3, 2010 – The TUI Student Travel (Canada) Group of Companies have partnered with Zerofootprint, leading developer of tools to measure and reduce the environmental footprint of individuals and organizations, to neutralize the carbon footprint of all land transportation components of their educational tours for students. All of the Canadian Educational brands (Impact Educational Tours, School Voyageurs and Young Explorers in Toronto, Educatours and Jumpstreet Tours in Montreal) participate in this offset program.
lfpress.com
January 20, 2010
Mayor’s State of the City Address - London Convention Centre
[Excerpt:] While we are designing a range of new programs, now is the time to hear from you. We need your input on our proposed ideas, and your own suggestions about what we can do in our homes, our communities, our transportation and our economy. RETHINK Energy London is supported by a wide range of tools, including an on-line discussion forum, web surveys, videos and a great tool for measuring your carbon footprint, which was launched last year.
American Statesman
Updated: 4:28 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010
Austin Energy unveils carbon calculator at expo - web site lets users know their emissions and how to tamp them down.
By Asher Price, AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
To encourage Austinites to trim their environmental impact, Austin Energy unveiled an online carbon calculator Friday at the Austin Climate Protection Conference and Expo.
Colorado Green Building
January 28, 2010
Boulder and Boulder County have partnered with Zerofootprint, a Toronto-based organization, that helps cities and individuals track, compare and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Zerofootprint’s ClimateSmart online carbon calculator and other tools can help you determine your own carbon footprint, and understand steps to reduce your score into the future.
The Globe and Mail
Last updated on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010 4:50PM EST
Thoughts from the Front Lines - Entrepreneurs tell us what’s on their minds
By: Rosa Parks
Ron Dembo
Ron Dembo is the founder and chief executive officer of Zerofootprint, a not-for-profit organization that has developed software that enables individuals and institutions to measure their carbon footprints.
CBC Toronto
Update Jan. 28th, 2010
Toronto and its Towers
Mary Wiens asks Julia Deans, CEO of the Toronto City Summit Alliance and Ron Dembo, founder of Zerofootprint, to review the progress of commercial, industrial and institutional Toronto.
Listen to audio (8:00)
The GTA has one of the biggest concentrations of high-rise towers in North America. Built during the construction hey-day of the 50s, 60s and 70s, at a time when energy costs were negligible, they are also energy hogs.
Abitare - International Design Magazine
02.01.2010
The ZEROprize™
Posted by Monica Guala
Zerofootprint is offering the ZEROprize™ to the design team who can take an older concrete high-rise structure and, using re-skinning along with other retrofitting technologies, reduce its carbon, water, and energy footprint to net zero while also maintaining the highest architectural design standards.
Globe and Mail
Published on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010 4:58PM EST Last updated on Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 4:10AM EST
Bean-counting trumps carbon counting: Belt-tightening puts the squeeze on companies’ eco-efforts, By: Bert Archer
A survey of Canadian corporate travel managers released last week found that the business community may not be quite as behind the green revolution as some of their PR campaigns would imply. For those who worry about air travel’s significant contribution to pollution and climate change, this is not great news.
Watch the video interview with Ron at: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
Globe and Mail
Published on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010 5:15PM EST Last updated on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 8:51AM EST
Save cash, enhance your brand – what’s not to like?
by: RASHA MOURTADA
It was the exhibition of affluence that prompted Ron Dembo to start a charity to help the environment.
