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To market, to market: Top: Lynda Little and Jim Hamilton, a.k.a. Heart and Soul, perform at Burnaby Farmers’ Market at city hall on Saturday morning. Above, nineyear-old Linden Kiensle and sister Martina, 7 – along with teddy bear friends – taste fruit at The Appleman’s kiosk. The market runs Telling tales: Youngsters listen as Mrs. Mary tells a story during a special Teddy Bear Picnic event at the Burnaby Farmers’ Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. until Oct. 25 in the north parking lot at city hall. market, held Saturday in the parking lot at Burnaby City Hall. For more photos, scan with Layar
SFU gets money to help reduce emissions After paying the provincial government almost $2 million since 2010 to offset its carbon emissions, Simon Fraser University will get back $195,000 this year to make its Burnaby campus more energy-efficient. The funds were announced this month in a Ministry of Advanced Education press release that said the government will pay B.C. colleges and universities $3.8 million under its Carbon Neutral Capital Program
tonnes. The funds hardly compare to the $2 million SFU has paid in carbon offsets since 2010, when the government – in a bid to become carbon neutral – decided all public sector institutions would have to start paying $25 a tonne for their annual CO2 emissions. (That money was to be pooled by the oft criticized Pacific Carbon Trust – a Crown corporation folded into the environment ministry last year – and used to invest in green programs that help offset
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pollution.) Despite the relatively small size of the SFU grant announced Wednesday, SFU development sustainability manager Wendy Lee is happy the university is getting any money at all to help make its facilities more energy-efficient. “What they are doing is at least creating a little bit of program funding,” she told the NOW. “We’ve been lobbying hard for something, just in terms of, like, you can’t continue to punish us without creating SFU Page 4
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this year for projects that reduce energy costs, demonstrate clean technology and lower carbon emissions. About $170,000 has been earmarked for SFU for five new high-efficiency boilers that will save the university a combined $19,900 a year on energy costs and cut CO2 emissions by just over 100 tonnes. Another $25,000 will go toward a $450,000 project to upgrade the education building envelope – work that will save the university $3,240 per year on energy costs and reduce CO2 emissions by 18
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