World Interior Design Network
Published:23-December-2009
Zerofootprint offers ZEROprize™ for design teams
By WIDN Staff Writer
Zerofootprint, a Canadian enterprise whose mission is to apply technology, design and risk management to reduce environmental footprint, is offering ZEROprize™ for design teams.The ZEROprize™ would be offered 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 maintaining the highest architectural design standards.
Scientific American
December 16, 2009
SciAm’s 2009 Gadget Guide: 10 Tech Toys You Deserve after a Tough Year - This year will be remembered for the federal economic stimulus package, Wall Street bailouts, and just possibly a fun new gadget or two, By Larry Greenemeier
ZEROFOOTPRINT TALKINGplug™
Ever wonder how much energy your hair dryer or toaster oven uses? Well, wonder no more. Zerofootprint, Inc., a company that offers services and software for people and businesses who want to lower their carbon footprint, says it can provide the answers via its TALKINGplug™.
earth2tech
December 17th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Copenhagen & Transparency: Carbon Software Makers Watching Closely
By Katie Fehrenbacher
The issue of “transparency” has taken over the Copenhagen climate negotiations. If and how countries will provide verifiable measurements of their emissions reductions is the sticking point of the $100 billion annual fund that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced today, and a major fissure between the U.S. and China at the negotiations.
wattwatt - community for individuals interested in electrical energy efficiency
December 14, 2009
When plugs start to talk… and help save energy
by: Yvonne Flavin
The stuff of science fiction movies has become reality! Imagine if all electrical outlets had the ability to monitor and capture your home or office energy use, carbon output data, and could also “talk” to the Internet…
The firm Zerofootprint has just launched TALKINGplug™, an exciting new initiative which is already making headlines worldwide.
Read More at: http://www.wattwatt.com/
wattwatt - community for individuals interested in electrical energy efficiency
December 14, 2009
When plugs start to talk… and help save energy
by: Yvonne Flavin
The stuff of science fiction movies has become reality! Imagine if all electrical outlets had the ability to monitor and capture your home or office energy use, carbon output data, and could also “talk” to the Internet…
The firm Zerofootprint has just launched TALKINGplug™, an exciting new initiative which is already making headlines worldwide.
Read More at: http://www.wattwatt.com/
The Green Majority
We live in a world where it is difficult to see the carbon, water, and electricity used to run our homes and offices. Reporter LeeAnne MacGregor speaks to Ron Dembo, CEO of the Toronto-based carbon offset firm, Zerofootprint, which provides tools needed to measure and manage the carbon footprint of people and companies. Mr. Dembo speaks to LeeAnne live from the climate negotiations in Copenhagen.
Listen to the Talk here: http://besustainable.com/greenmajority/
The Globe and Mail
Monday, Dec. 14, 2009 3:53AM EST
While politicians negotiate, executives take action
By: Eric Reguly
Corporate honchos aren’t waiting for treaties and legislation, they’re changing the way they do business to make climate change part of their legacy.
The Bella Center, the size of a big-city airport, is climate change’s ground zero. Some 30,000 participants swarm into the convention buildings every day. The mob includes some of the planet’s brightest scientific, technical, development, economic and political minds, from paleoclimatologists, who can tell you what the weather was like 100,000 years ago, to Chinese negotiators who know as much about U.S. carbon cap-and-trade “architecture” as many U.S. senators.
SOA World Magazine Online
Dec. 10, 2009 10:15 AM
TORONTO, ONTARIO—(Marketwire)—12/10/09—Editors Note: There is a video associated with this Press Release.
Social Game Universe Lands Visionary Investors and Launches Ground Breaking Social Games
By: Marketwire.
Social Game Universe, a social games innovator based in Toronto, announced today that thousands of players have begun beta testing its first applications on Facebook: Hollywood Tycoon (single player version rated 4/5 stars by Jayisgames.com and called one of the best casual tycoon games available) and Avastar (a finalist for Most Innovative Online Game at the Canadian New Media Awards).
Environmental Expert.com
Nov. 20, 2009
Zerofootprint unveils VELOmetrics™ enabling peer groups to compare carbon footprint
Source: Zerofootprint Software Inc.
Zerofootprint, a leading developer of tools to measure and reduce the environmental footprint of individuals and organizations of all sizes, announced today at New York Climate Week the availability of the industry’s first benchmarking service VELOmetrics™.
Ron Dembo CEO & Founder of Zerofootprint presents “How benchmarking can save the world” at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen: http://unfccc.int/meetings/cop_15/climate_change_kiosk/items/5196.php
