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Sustainability Spotlight
Should Canada compete for North America data centres?
In the old days, when you purchased a computer the most important thing about the computer was the CPU speed and the “working memory” or RAM. You...
Vegetables from California are better for the environment
Canada is growing more of its own food. More than half of our fresh fruits and vegetables come from outside Canada, mostly trucked in from the U.S. and Mexico....
Canceling the carbon tax would hurt low income families the most
There are two certainties that we face. One is that climate change is already upon us, showing up in weather records everywhere and the second is the people who...
Retraining Alberta's oil workers
Extracting oil from the Alberta oil sands is a modern technological marvel. Bitumen from the oil sand is extracted in two ways. For deposits deep underground,...
Small, affordable EVs are needed now more than ever
Why are we, in Canada, blocking the Chinese electric vehicles that we need? U.S. and Canadian automakers have been very slow to roll out electric vehicles and...
How the 'shale revolution' provides leverage for geothermal energy
To begin, you have to understand there are two kinds of geothermal energy. There is geothermal energy based on the simple fact that the ground 30 metres down...
Ten years on, recycling in B.C. is a success
There’s a problem with recycling. Manufacturers create new packaging all the time. They have specific goals such as making products more attractive and...
Rooftop panels and solar panel farms will both be needed B.C.'s future power needs
When people picture solar energy, they have two very different images in mind. One image is a field of solar panels, tilted to the south, stretching from...
The importance of renegotiating the Columbia River Treaty
People might be defined by international borders but rivers don’t care about these paper boundaries. The Columbia River basin is an enormous area made up...
Good news for climate change
It is a hopeful sign. It is a scientific measurement of improvement in the atmosphere. The improvement demonstrates governments can create and stick to an...
Pros and cons fo rooftop solar panel systems
You’ve decided to invest in solar panels for your house. Then, you run into reality. Solar only shines during the day (and during sunny weather). In order...
The electrical grid: It’s five p.m. somewhere
When you plug something in, you just want it to work. You don’t think about the fact that it is 5 p.m. and everyone is turning things on and plugging...
Brewing beer in an environmentally sustainable way
Three years ago, Alexis Esseltine and Timothy Scoon purchased the Okanagan’s oldest craft brewery, Tin Whistle, founded in 1995. Since they took over,...
Deep energy retrofit can reduce your home’s energy use by 50%.
You swapped out your incandescent lightbulbs for LEDs. You replaced your furnace and your air conditioning unit with a high performance heat pump. You’ve...
Can concrete be carbon neutral?
Some aspects of our economy are easy to decarbonize. We are well on our way switching cars from internal combustion to electric. We are rapidly adding...
Potential environmental crises worse than global warming
For those of us who work in the field of climate change, it is some consolation to take a break and reflect there are crises worse than global warming. Giant...
Personal carbon emissions by the numbers
Are you interested in reducing your personal carbon footprint? Have you ever wondered exactly how much recycling reduces global warming? In 2020, a...
Increased prices nullifying the advantage of rebates
It sounded like a great idea. Women need menstrual products once a month. These products are not discretionary, they are necessary, so why should people in the...
Don’t invest your carbon offset in trees
Trees are climate change miracles. They take in carbon and give up oxygen. The region around them benefits from their shade and trees put moisture into the air....
Should B.C. be trading power with the U.S.?
B.C.’s sales and purchases of electricity with the U.S. have come up in two contexts recently. In December 2023, B.C. set a record by purchasing...
