Several related to the centre.

"It is exactly what is needed in virtually every community across Canada," MPP Donna Cansfield, the honourary patron for the World Green Building Council and a parliamentary assistant in the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, told the . "It's where you're going to assimilate and distribute information, gather best practices, allow people to look at their ecological footprint, do carbon deduction, and pulling in the community to give them the tools to have a better life. Not a bad idea, when you think about it."

The project also received on and by the .

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"The time has come that we all need to do things differently. Green is the only way to go," Tom Walsh, mayor of Adjala-Tosorontio, told the in their .

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Over the next three years, the centre will open and expand its programs to provide workshops, seminars and online webinars, education services, and databases containing 'green' best practice information and resources.

"It'll be a place where a business owner or homeowner can enter, and get information," said David Phipps, director of 91亚色's Office of Research Services. "We'll understand the information needs the business owner has, and then try to find that. We'll find the best information to help meet that need. The centre is a meeting place, where people can come and have multiple voices."

More details about the project are expected in March 2010.

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