Climate Emergency: A 26-Week Transition Program for Canada by Guy Dauncey FRSA, PIBC (Hon) What could the government of Canada do if its Ministers, MPs and civil servants knew that there was very strong Read more…
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They’re Doing it in Germany Part 4: The Small But Critical Steps to B.C.’s Renewable Future
During the first three parts in this series, I found that becoming a 100 per cent renewable energy region is mostly possible, but when it comes to long-distance trucking, shipping and flying it will need some technological breakthroughs, supported by regional and international cooperation. But so what? We could become an
Continue readingThey’re Doing it in Germany Part 3: Can Long-Distance Transport be Clean?
Last week, in my quest to see whether British Columbia could become a 100 per cent renewable energy region, I looked at personal transportation. This week I take on the far more challenging task of long-distance trucking, boats, ferries and planes. Ponder this: a typical eighteen-wheeler truck has a 400-horse-power engine.
Continue readingThey’re Doing it in Germany Part 2: Greening B.C.’s Transportation Sector
Last week I started to explore the possibility that British Columbia could become a 100 per cent renewable energy region, as 140 regions in. Germany are planning to become. This week, we look at transportation. Is it possible that we could get where we want to be and ship our goods
Continue readingThey’re Doing it in Germany Part 1: How to Green B.C. Energy
They’re doing it in Germany: 140 regions of the country have set a goal to become 100 per cent renewable energy regions, covering 30 per cent of Germany’s land and 26 per cent of her people, as we learnt in the June. Could British Columbia do the same? The climate
Continue readingSomething Amazing in B.C. Just Happened with Solar Energy
This article originally appeared on the B.C. Sustainable Energy Association website. It’s known as “the warm land,” and as soon as you get off the highway Vancouver Island’s Cowichan Valley certainly has the feeling of pleasant summer warmth, filled with agricultural fecundity. It was the Coast Salish Cowichan people who
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