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Nov 12, 2010 | 12:10 am

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Pearson stepping up its green initiatives

http://www.thestar.com/travel/articl...en-initiatives

I called the Greater Toronto Airport Authority, the body that owns and runs Pearson, an airport so big that if you were to plop it onto midtown, it would flatten everything from Bloor to College, and from Spadina to Yonge. Thirty million passengers went through the airport last year, and more than 400 million tonnes of cargo. They put me in touch with Toby Lennox, the vice president of corporate affairs and communications, and chair of the GTAA’s Community Environment and Noise Advisement committee and the Partners in Project Green steering committee.

It turns out they have a plan, like many companies these days. They call it 20/2020, and it entails reducing their greenhouse gas emissions to 20 per cent lower than 2006 levels by 2020. They’re switching off lights, and doing a test of geothermal heating on one of their fire halls next year. And their new fire-training building is designated LEED Silver, one of the highest eco-friendly ratings there is. Which is good.

What’s way more interesting is what Lennox told me about the practical, low-tech, common-sense things they do in relation to the dirty, dirty planes themselves.

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