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All the winners and highly commended entries from the UK's most prestigious green business awards

Check out all the finalists for the UK's most prestigious green business awards

A new survey of low- and middle-income tenants reveals how affordability and lease agreements create barriers to tenants securing adequate cooling to escape extreme indoor heat in the summer. Landlords say solving the problem is more complex than it may seem, requiring coordination with different civil bodies.

Summertime in Windsor is often characterized with sticky humidity and soaring temperatures, a feature that comes with being surrounded by bodies of water and being Canada’s southernmost city. For some, it’s a point of pride. For others, it’s the source of their suffering.

High indoor temperatures are dangerous, especially when there’s no relief at night. In a five-city national project, CBC News uncovered how Canadians are suffering in their own homes, sometimes with fatal consequences

For pet owners without air conditioning in Windsor, Ont., animal health can be a concern. Seth Findlay and Luke Maddaford have each utilized different strategies to keep themselves and their animals safe.

For newcomers to Canada, milder temperatures might be expected with a move to the great white north. But with another week of heat warnings in Windsor, and temperatures pushing 40 C with the humidex, it means coping with the heat without always being equipped.

Trade sunbathing, sweet treats and cooling off indoors with vertigo, migraines, and insomnia. Those are the signs of summer for Windsor’s Jessica Mailloux-Lesperance, who was forced to remove her air conditioning last spring, and could not afford a replacement.

All the winners and highly commended entries from the inaugural UK Green Business Awards last night

The shortlist for the inaugural UK Green Business Awards has been unveiled and tickets are now available for the glittering awards ceremony on the evening of Thursday 29th June