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100% Electric Vehicles (EVs)
At Terra 2 Imports, our services are constantly evolving, as are the vehicles we source and import for our clients.
If you’re in the market for a sustainable / reliable / economical / simple / petroleum free / environmentally responsible / superior form of transportation, we can help.
Terra 2 Imports can help you find a suitable electric vehicle no matter where it’s made, import it, and take it through the compliance and registration process for our Canadian roads.
If the vehicle you wish to import is not admissible by Transport Canada, we’ll assist you through the proper channels to help change that. It won’t happen unless someone demands a change and we want to help you make that happen.
If you wish to convert your current vehicle, we can assist with this process as well. With technology available today, the possibilities are only limited by your imagination…and budget. Conversions can be done for as little a few thousand dollars, or the sky is the limit, with achievable performance levels previously unheard of by anything other than million dollar Super Cars.
With mileage ranges for hybrid electric vehicles in the 1000’s of kms, and 0-60 times less than 3 seconds for high performance full electrics, the future of transportation is electric.
We will help you facilitate your progression to “transportation 2.0″ in any way we can.
Buy an electric vehicle today!
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Biodiesel
By running Biodiesel in your diesel vehicle you can reduce Canada’s dependence on foreign oil and the politics that come with it. You can also save money as biodiesel generally costs less than diesel and you don’t have to pay carbon tax on it.
The biodiesel at the fuel station we filled up at, www.recyclingalternative.com, is made from recycled waste animal fats so it doesn’t impact the food shortages some parts of the world are experiencing.
Save money and our planet by driving on Biodiesel.
Driving on biodiesel is carbon neutral!
We’re looking for Biodiesel experts to write articles, contact us if you’re interested.
To run bio diesel in your vehicle you must have a diesel engine. Below you fill find all of our listings that are equipped with diesel engines.
Buy a Biodiesel ready vehicle!
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Updated: Fri Apr. 27 2007 12:40:09 PM
Some of the 12,000 used batteries collected by the students for disposal.
toronto.ctv.ca
A group of Grade 7 and 8 students in Scarborough who wanted to help keep toxic products out of the environment collected more than 12,000 batteries, only to be told that Toronto’s Toxics Taxi program would not pick them up.
Toxics Taxi is a program by the City of Toronto that picks up household hazardous waste. It is a free service for home owners in the city. But when the students asked for the used batteries to be collected for safe disposal, they were told no.
“When I called they said that they couldn’t pick it up because we are an institution and not a residence,” science teacher Yun Cheng said.
“And when I told them that the batteries actually came from homes, they said that they still couldn’t pick it up.”
But the environmentally conscious students at Bliss Carman Senior Public School did not give up.
“I thought that it was important that these batteries get recycled instead of just going to a landfill and contributing to the amount of garbage that we have,” student J.J. Wannamaker said.
So they wrote a letter to city hall in March, hoping to get the decision reversed. Even that seemed to fall on deaf ears, until Coun. Glen De Baeremaeker learned of their problem.
He thanked the students for the efforts and arranged to have the batteries picked up for proper disposal.
“I feel terrible for these kids. They’re trying to do the right thing and we adults are letting them down a little bit,” De Baeremaeker told the Toronto Star.
With a report from CTV’s Alex Mihailovich
Source: http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20070427/students_batteries_070427?hub=TorontoNewHome
Updated: Wed Jan. 14 2009 8:12:39 AM
The Great Lakes dominate this true-colour satellite image made available by NASA.
The Associated PressTRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Wrapping up an eight-year investigation of possible links between industrial pollution and health risks in the Great Lakes region, U.S. government researchers said Tuesday information was too sketchy and called for more study.
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, part of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, released the final version of a much-scrutinized report after drawing criticism from a scientific review panel and accusations of a cover-up from members of Congress.
“The data we have, as good as it is, isn’t complete,” said Dr. Howard Frumkin, director of ATSDR and the National Center for Environmental Health.
“We hope we can focus researchers and decision-makers on the need for targeted and careful data-collection…so we can get a more complete picture.”
The agency began its review in 2001 at the request of the International Joint Commission, a U.S.-Canadian agency that advises the two countries on the Great Lakes and other boundary waters. The commission wanted an analysis of health hazards in 26 “areas of concern” – rivers, harbours, lakes and other locations severely degraded by toxic pollution.
But the report said available data doesn’t allow firm conclusions about cause-and-effect ties between pollution and illness in the region.
Statistics on problems such as cancer and birth defects cannot be matched with pollution data because of differences in location and timing, it said.
Earlier drafts had attempted to do so, correlating countywide health figures with environmental measurements from larger or smaller areas. CDC officials dropped such linkages from the final report, saying they were flawed.
“Good science matters,” Frumkin said in a written statement, adding the early versions “could have led to incorrect conclusions.”
The Institute of Medicine, an independent scientific panel, raised the same concern last September in a critical review of the preliminary drafts.
U.S. Representative Bart Stupak, chairman of the House of Representatives energy and commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations, began looking into the CDC’s handling of the report last year. In a statement Tuesday, he contended it was reasonable to link the region’s pollution and health problems.
“It doesn’t take a scientist to tell you that the toxins discussed in this report are detrimental to human health and need to be cleaned up,” said Stupak, a Michigan Democrat.
“It is almost as though CDC is trying harder to protect the polluters than the victims.”
The study presented other challenges that help explain why it took so long, Frumkin said.
ATSDR had evaluated 146 hazardous waste sites around the Great Lakes. But they were not identical to the 26 “areas of concern,” although there was some overlapping, Frumkin said. That meant the agency had not examined many sources of contamination in the areas of concern.
Also, some data was outdated because sites had been cleaned up.
Still, the report includes a wealth of material from health assessments at hazardous sites and statistics from several federal databases. But it doesn’t reflect all chemical contamination in the region, Frumkin said.
The report recommends further investigation, including epidemiological studies that could shed light on possible links between health problems and exposure to toxic chemicals.
Such studies could lead to public policies such as recommending cutbacks on Great Lakes fish consumption, it said. Michigan is among states that already publish guidelines on eating fish from its waters.
Source: http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090114/great_lakes_pollution_090114?hub=TorontoNewHome
20/01/2009 3:45:00 PM
THE CANADIAN PRESS
HALIFAX, N.S. – Government and industry officials launched a website Tuesday that will inform people where they can drop off old cellphones for recycling and thereby reduce the flow of wireless gadgets into landfills.
Nova Scotia Environment Minister David Morse announced the start of Recycle My Cell in Halifax because Nova Scotia is the first province to officially adopt the program.
The online site will give users a list of locations based on their postal code where they can deposit their cellphones and components for recycling or refurbishment.
“Nova Scotians will be able to drop off their cellphones, pagers, smart phones, BlackBerrys and air cards to be reused and recycled,” Morse said at the launch, moments before depositing a cellphone and battery into a recycling box.
“This program is helping Nova Scotia reach our goals of solid-waste management.”
Bernard Lord of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Network said that with 22 million mobile devices in circulation, the national program will help cut down on the number of phones and other electronic gadgets littering landfills.
“We want to make sure that as we improve the lives of Canadians through more wireless devices, we also protect the environment,” Lord said.
There are 3,500 sites now collecting cellphones and components, with Nova Scotia claiming it will have more than 300 drop-off sites ready by Feb. 1.
Lord, the former premier of New Brunswick, said the service is free and phones can be refurbished or recycled into things like dental fillings and musical instruments.
Charities, such as food banks, get proceeds from the program every time a device is dropped off.
The sites can be found at www.recyclemycell.ca
A spokesman with the telecommunications network said all other provinces are in talks to adopt the program, but that people across the country can still access the sites online.
Source: http://technology.sympatico.msn.ca/News/ContentPosting?newsitemid=40516026&feedname=CP-TECHNOLOGY&show=False&number=0&showbyline=True&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc&date=True
Updated: Thu Jan. 22 2009 1:25:18 PM
The Canadian Press
TORONTO — A new program being launched Thursday will aim to divert hazardous household waste like old batteries from Ontario landfills by returning it to the store.
Many municipalities already collect waste like old paint on designated days, but the new program will let consumers drop it off at participating retail stores.
Stewardship Ontario will collect fees from companies that make or import the products to pay for the program.
But those costs could trickle down to consumers if companies decide to hike prices to offset the recycling fees.
Environment Minister John Gerretsen says the fees will be `quite nominal,’ but it’s up to the companies to decide if they want to include it in their prices.
The `Do What You Can’ program is expected to cost $28 million in its first year, but will be expanded to include items such as aerosol containers, fluorescent light bulbs and corrosive cleaners.
Source: http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090122/recycling_waste_090122/20090122/?hub=TorontoNewHome
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