Cathy Rust, BECgreen.ca
November 14, 2011

Zerofootprint has developed sophisticated software to help clients figure out where they are starting from (benchmark) and what they need to do to reduce their energy consumption. Take, for example, the Halton Catholic District School Board.

This blog post originally appeared in the Canadian edition of the Huffington Post. Get all the newest posts by signing up to Zerofootprint CEO Ron Dembo’s Huffington Post blog RSS feed.

Climate change is one of the most hotly debated issues of our time, both from an economic and a moral viewpoint. And whenever someone makes a case for action from a moral stance, most often they’ll justify it by invoking the future plight of the world and the children that will inherit it. It’s a delicate subject, after all, what’s more important than our children?

InsideHalton.com
October 14, 2011

Halton Catholic District School Board students and staff can now track their school’s energy consumption with the hope it will spark discussion and, ultimately, conservation efforts.

Watch the announcement of the Zerofootprint Challenge at the Environment & Energy keynote lunch during the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting

On September 21st, 2010 the Zerofootprint Challenge was highlighted as an exemplary member commitment to Environment & Energy at the Sixth Annual Clinton Global Initiative Meeting in New York.

At the Environment & Energy keynote lunch, Former President of the Republic of Costa Rica José Maria Figueres announced our commitment to engage schools in the fight against climate change, alongside Zerofootprint Founder and CEO Ron Dembo and Richard Branson.

Watch a clip of the presentation below, or by clicking here.

BUFFALO, NY
September 29, 2010

Eco-Schools USA has partnered with the Zerofootprint Foundation’s new school competition to engage students in a race to reduce energy use.

National Wildlife Federation (NWF) announced the partnership at this week’s North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) conference. Together with NWF’s Eco-Schools USA program, the new Zerofootprint Challenge enables students to take climate action into their own hands by competing to reduce their school’s energy consumption.

Zerofootprint Challenge Competition Introduced to Measure. Compare and Change
Global Environmental Impact… One School at a Time

NEW YORK, Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting
September 21, 2010

Zerofootprint, a leading organization in the global fight against climate change, announced today at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting, the launch of the Zerofootprint Challenge, a Zerofootprint Foundation global initiative encouraging schools around the world to measure, compare and change their environmental footprint. 

The Zerofootprint Challenge will work collaboratively with school districts to provide students with easy to use software and social networking tools to measure carbon footprint information, provoke competition and discover a new culture of energy use. The Challenge is designed to help a school benchmark and better understand how big its carbon footprint is, how it compares to other schools and how much carbon is produced for each student it educates.

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Inside Toronto
Jun 01, 2010

Agents of change colour Jane-Finch green, By: Danielle Milley

The Jane and Finch neighbourhood has been busy creating agents of change - green change. The Jane-Finch Community Family Centre began the Green Change project a year ago and it has gone very well. “It’s been a very successful year because residents embraced the project so well,” said Rosemarie Powell of the centre.

Canadian Green Tech
Tuesday, 18 May 2010 08:17

Zerofootprint enables Toronto community to significantly reduce carbon emissions, Energy Conservation
Written by Perry Hoffman

From: http://www.canadiangreentech.ca (Subscription Required)

Last month, the Jane/Finch Community and Family Centre won the Green Toronto Award in Community Projects for being able to abate 2,000 tonnes of carbon emissions in 2009. By winning the award, the low-income, densely populated area of about 80,000 residents showed that with the proper tools, fighting climate change can be done on a shoestring budget.

ZDNet, November 8th, 2009
by Harry Fuller

The first of what may be many carbon footprint measurement facilities will be located at the University of Waterloo. The lab is being funded by Zerofootprint. They’re hoping to get other ZEROlabs™ onto other North American campuses.

WATERLOO, ON, Nov. 6 /CNW/ - The University of Waterloo is today launching North America’s first school focusing on environmentally responsible business and development with more than $23 million in donations.

The school of environment, enterprise and development (SEED), centered in Waterloo’s faculty of environment, will provide sustainable solutions to key local and global environmental, social and developmental challenges through education, research and training. SEED’s graduates will be equipped to create successful organizations in a world with increasing demands for energy and environmental sustainability.

SEED offers a set of degrees that integrate environment, business and development education. To accomplish this, SEED merged the university’s highly respected environment and business programs with a new international development program.