Alberta’s government recently announced new regulations for renewable energy development. They include restrictions against wind or solar…
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SS Valley Camp, a lake freighter that spent over 50 years operating on the Great…
It’s not a stretch to say the fossil fuel industry rules the world. From its…
As people worldwide join forces to avert the worst consequences of the climate crisis, the…
In 1989, I did a radio series for CBC called It’s a Matter of Survival. It…
In the effort to limit and reverse the worsening impacts of global heating, the immediate…
As the impacts of climate disruption become more frequent and intense, we need a range…
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions to keep the world from heating to catastrophic levels is entirely…
The Typo, a three-masted schooner, sank six miles east-southeast of Presque Isle light in 1899…
Resolving the climate crisis is a challenge — but not for lack of solutions. What’s…
By now, anyone paying attention knows that burning coal, oil and gas has created a…
This summer, a Fortis BC booth at a Vancouver farmers market displayed the slogan, “Natural…
Over the decades that I and others have been warning about the consequences of burning…
When politicians and fossil-fuelled media seize on a few ill-chosen words I or other environmental…
After a fractious and sometimes heated campaign, Canadians have elected a Parliament that largely resembles the…
Humanity seems to be teetering on the brink. On one hand, we know that rapidly…
Oil giant ExxonMobil’s leaders have a long history of doing everything to keep the world from addressing…
Thirty-three years ago, NASA scientist James Hansen told a U.S. congressional committee the agency was 99 per…
In 1970, to make the world safer from humanity’s worst self-destructive impulses, most nations joined…
During and after his 2016 campaign, the current U.S. president promised to make coal great…
Let’s hope 2020 marks the start of a year and decade when we finally take…
Coal, oil and gas are tremendous resources: solar energy absorbed by plants and super-concentrated over millions of years. They’re potent fuels and provide ingredients for valuable products. But the oil boom, spurred by improved drilling technology, came at the wrong time. Profits were (and still are) the priority — rather than finding the best, most efficient uses for finite resources.
Coal, oil and gas are tremendous resources: solar energy absorbed by plants and super-concentrated over…
If you own a smartphone, you have more computing power at your fingertips than NASA scientists had when they put people on the moon in 1969! And it’s in a small device, unlike the massive hardware the space agency used.
If you own a smartphone, you have more computing power at your fingertips than NASA…