Reading Time: 3 minutes We can’t adopt alternative energy sources until they’re viable. So what’s the delay in the necessary testing and research?
Category: Environment
Looking at the natural world through Indigenous eyes
Reading Time: 4 minutes The impact of climate change on the West Coast, in the Arctic and on the Prairies
Why government meddling can increase air pollution
Reading Time: 3 minutes We need a more modest, but more efficient, set of environmental policies that involve doing less, not more
Lab-grown meat is worthless unless consumers see a benefit
Reading Time: 3 minutes The issues surrounding the technology – and the payoffs – need to be clearly explained to get public support
Green energy industries are impractical, destined to fail
Reading Time: 4 minutes Yes, we need to build the renewable energy industry. But that means concentrating on nuclear and fusion energy systems
New technology will make carbon tax obsolete
Reading Time: 3 minutes The free-market system, human ingenuity and investors and entrepreneurs seeking profits brought these ideas forth
Hockey moms, commuters defend pricing pollution in court
Reading Time: 4 minutes Pricing pollution should be pursued as part of a broader #TaxShift, taxing less what we do want, while taxing more what we don’t want
Roll Up the Rim to Win needs an environmental reboot
Reading Time: 3 minutes Tim Hortons’ iconic campaign has been around for 33 years, an incredible run, but the circular economy has overtaken it
Drinking the plant-based diet kool-aid
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s Food Guide plant-based diet is, for the most part, elitist. Many of us can’t indulge because of a lack of access, affordability or convenience
B.C. mayors shaking down energy companies are ignoring reality
Reading Time: 3 minutes We know what a world without fossil fuels looks like – we used to live in it. It was cold, poor, dark, ignorant, starving and backwards