During Earth Hour last Saturday, the Greater Toronto Area saved approximately 434 megawatts of energy according to hydro utilities. This equates to the electricity enough to power about 434,450 homes.

A new glass recycling facility being built by Unical Inc. in Brampton will process glass in blue boxes for most of Greater Toronto and Hamilton and will save local municipalities millions.

Environmental Commissioner Gordon Miller states in his annual report that suburbs are being expanded and highways are being built in the surrounding area of Toronto despite efforts to preserve green space and regulations to control urban sprawl.

Climate change experts and politicians came together to discuss how the city can adapt to climate change in the coming decades at a Toronto City Council committee session. A grime future for the GTA is predicted with higher death rates from heat waves and an increase in cases of Lyme disease and West Nile virus.