Electric buses are making a real and rapidly growing dent in emissions, but despite being home to four prominent electric bus manufacturers, Canada’s transit fleets have been slow to adopt this climate-change-fighting technology. We compare the current use of electric bus in Montreal, Toronto, Edmonton, Vancouver to Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Shenzhen.
Tag: Toronto
Telus Launch Green Rooftop with Community Garden
Office building green roofs tend to be a ‘spectator sport’: look but don’t touch. Telus launch their participatory rooftop garden in their downtown Toronto building where staff are encouraged to seed, water, weed, and harvest the vegetables. I talk to Sameer Panjwani, National Chair of Telus Green Team, to see how this environmental employee engagement initiative came to harvest.