[greenon-l] Tackling the Doors Open Policy

[Conservation Council of Ontario]

Ontario's Conservation Movement
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Dear friends,

 

Here's a quick posting on the We Conserve website
<http://weconserve.ca/articles/?p=16> http://weconserve.ca/articles/?p=16  

 

"I'm sorry, doors open is company policy"

 

Conservation should be company policy! 

 

It's minus 10 degrees Celsius in Toronto and I walk past a store with the
door wide open.  I went in and asked if they could close the door to help
conserve energy.  The manager apologized and said she had to wear a scarf
herself, but that it was company policy to keep a door open.

 

Aritzia <http://www.aritzia.com/>  is the company, a clothing retailer, but
judging from the comments we keep receiving from you on the Doors Closed
campaign <http://www.weconserve.ca/august2005.html>  it could be any chain.

In Vancouver, where Aritzia's head office is, it's 5 degees above zero
today.

 

I have sent a message to their office asking them to clarify their policy
for us.  We will also contact all the major retail chains over the next
couple of months and pull together a list of which companies will make it a
policy to keep doors closed when the temperature is above 25 or below 5
degrees.

 

 

 

Follow Up on a Conserver Budget

http://weconserve.ca/articles/?p=12   

 

Thanks to everyone who submitted comments on a conservation budget.  There
were some excellent ideas, mostly around reducing energy consumption - PST
exemptions, gas guzzler taxes - and promoting renewable power.  With the
current attention on the Ontario Power Authority's Supply Mix report, and
the overwhelming public outcry in support of conservation, energy is
certainly the best bet with respect to greening Ontario's budget.  I was
able to pass on a number of these suggestions in the pre-budget
consultations, along with a recommendation for $1 per Ontarian towards the
development of Ontario's conservation movement.

 

For anyone who is interested in further research on tax-shifting, I'd
recommend looking at The Centre for Integral Economics
http://www.integraleconomics.org/. Donna Morton has done some great work on
how municipal, provincial, and federal governments can adjust taxation
policy to stimulate healthier and sustainable economies and societies.

 

 

Chris Winter

 <http://www.weconserve.ca/> weconserve.ca 

Ontario's conservation movement

 

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