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The Trial of David Suzuki
After announcing his Carbon Manifesto in front of the Toronto Courthouse, David Suzuki was part of a mock trial held on November 6, 2013 at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). The premise of The Trial was...
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The Nature of Things: The Nano Revolution
Around the year 2000, I attended a conference organized by the Council of Canadians about the risks associated with genetically modified organisms. At some point during the proceedings, an...
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Renewables Aren't Perfect, and That's Okay
Sometime during the next 100 years or so, the world is going to run out of platinum. If we haven’t found a replacement, production of new jewelry, electrodes, anticancer drugs and turbine engines will...
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Finally, a Solar Car That Doesn't Look Like a Spaceship
The cutting edge in solar cars is a vehicle that looks like something your dad might drive every day on his way to the paperwork bureaucracy factory.In the early days solar cars stretched the...
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The Sexy Topic of Converting Waste to Biofuel
In a recent interview, Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson called waste management a “sexy” topic for Edmontonians.Hey, we’re all a little loopy after such a long winter.read more
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Should We Give Biomass the Coal'd Shoulder?
In the quest for sustainable sources of energy, we can anticipate the odd bump in the road. Some technologies appear unlikely to ever pan out (so long, cold fusion!), while others (oh, hi there solar...
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Incredible Breakthrough Could Boost Solar Power Efficiency to Almost 100%
Given all the ways in which humans are otherwise smarter and better educated than plants, you’d think we would have established a bit more of an advantage in our capacity to harvest the sun’s...
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Is a (Mostly) Solar World Coming?
Recent gains in solar and wind energy are tremendously encouraging. In 2013 there were 40 gigawatts of new solar installed globally and for 2014 the estimate is for 52 gigawatts and the rate of...
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What's Driving Nuclear Fusion?
Submarines: the mother of all invention.Or at least, a very specific kind of invention.In October, American defence contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. announced that it had made a nuclear fusion...
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Fundy Rising
AT 16 METRES or more – about five storeys high – the Bay of Fundy’s tides are the highest in the world. Each day along Fundy’s 1,200-kilometre coastline, the tides cover and then expose stony, red-sand...
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Ontario's Solar Plan
Read "The Story of Solar" from A\J's latest issue and see how solar cells and photovoltaic systems work.A\J: Does Ontario have a long-term comprehensive energy plan?read more
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The Water-Energy Nexus
Acidic water and corroded pipes conspire to leak the equivalent of 2,888 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of Cape Breton’s treated water into the ground every year before it reaches its intended...
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Green Capitalism: Why It Can't Work
It seems clear that capitalism as currently practiced contributes to the planet’s destruction but Daniel Tanuro – who calls himself a “qualified agricultural engineer and a Marxist” – wants to go...
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Nukes or Not?
Dr. Linda Harvey says nuclear power is dangerous every day, not just when disaster strikes.Any form of electric power could be considered clean and green if you only look at what happens after it...
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The Best Things Ever of All Time, This Week!
EACH WEEK, A\J staffers share our favourite facts & findings from whatever books, articles, documentaries, podcasts and other media we've been consuming. Here’s what we’ve learned this week!read more
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What Lies Beneath
Over the lasttwo years, the government of British Columbia, along with Ottawa, has become an aggressive promoter of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to Asia. The get-rich scheme would require...
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Repairing Reputations
After 10 years of neglecting environmental policy, the Canadian government needs to do a lot more than just show up to COP21 in order to begin repairing Canadian’s reputation on the world stage,...
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COP21 101
Climate change and its impending effects on our world can no longer be ignored or denied. Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising and species are going extinct. As the impacts of climate change...
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Murphy's Flaw
Writing in the National Post, Rex Murphy recently took aim at the UN climate conference and the environmentalists, political leaders and business people who will travel to Paris this month to attend...
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Local Heroics
With Kyoto’s deadlines looming, Canada faces the likelihood that we will not reach our targets of reducing emissions to six percent below 1990 levels between 2008 and 2012. And Canada is not alone. A...
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