Bruce County residents living near wind turbines can expect to hear soon from a team studying the health effects of the massive wind-powered generators.

University students will be fanning out across the area over the next month putting surveys in hundreds of mailboxes. It's one of the first steps in a five-year, $1.5-million study being conducted by the Ontario Research Chair in Renewable Energy Technology and Health, which is based out of the University of Waterloo.

Along with the surveys,…

Canada ranks among the top 10 countries worldwide when it comes to spawning clean technology companies, despite scant support for the sector from the federal government.

A new report by the World Wildlife Fund and the multinational research firm Cleantech Group LLC rates 38 countries by their abilities to commercialize start-up green-tech firms. Denmark and Israel lead the rankings, the United States lands in fifth place, and Canada comes in seventh.

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Three Waterloo chemical engineering students beat out teams from across the country to win the first Walmart Green Student Challenge on February 29 at the TMX Broadcast Centre in Toronto.

The fourth-year students -Arthur Yip, Jake Yeung, Alan Thai (pictured above, with WISE Excecutive Director Jatin Nathwani)-came out on top with their idea of an integrated energy hub for retail distribution centres. The hub is designed to integrate solar rooftop panels and be connected to the smart…