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Hopeful Caution
“COP21 will be good, but not good enough,” says David Miller, president and CEO of WWF-Canada with regard to energy conservation. If we are going to combat climate change, according to Miller COP21...
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The Missing Pieces in Canada’s Climate Change Mitigation Plan
The Paris climate talks have come to an end, and a historic agreement has been reached. In Canada, environmentalists have breathed a deep sigh of relief as the federal and provincial governments have...
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Kitchener-Waterloo Blue Drinks: Conversation in Action!
The Region of Waterloo is full of community makers that have big ideas about how to improve the quality of life of those around them. On June 9th, several young professionals from various...
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$480B needed to avoid 1.5°C warming
New economic and climate modelling suggests governments around the world must invest US$480 billion in low carbon energy technologies to keep global temperatures from rising above 1.5°C by 2030....
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OPINION: Playing politics with Pickering nuclear in no one’s best interest
Premier Doug Ford’s announcement that his government would keep the aging Pickering nuclear station online represented a regrettable (but unsurprising) continuity with Ontario’s pan-partisan tradition...
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Ford’s illusory climate policy mandate
Mere weeks into office, Premier Doug Ford’s government scrapped Ontario’s carbon pollution trading scheme and slashed support for renewable energy. And as recently as last week, representing the...
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Doug Ford’s energy shake-up could cost Ontario
Over the past two weeks, Ontario’s new Ford government made a series of high-profile actions regarding the province’s electricity system. These included the ouster of Hydro One CEO Mayo Schmidt and...
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Belo Monte: there is nothing green or sustainable about these mega-dams
There are few dams in the world that capture the imagination as much as Belo Monte, built on the “Big Bend” of the Xingu river in the Brazilian Amazon. Its construction has involved an army of 25,000...
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Policies on petroleum and pipelines move us closer to a ‘Hothouse Canada’
It is another hot, hot summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Sweden is having trouble fighting wildfires north of the Arctic Circle. Greece has seen its worst wildfires in years, and even Britain has...
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No quick or easy resolution to the Trans Mountain pipeline question
The decision by the Federal Court of Appeal against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion seems to have come as a shock to the federal and Alberta governments. In response, the Alberta government, the...
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