Jeff Passmore, CACOR Director, presents a recent interview. Takeaways The global industrial bioeconomy is set to reach at least $2 trillion a year by 2030 to 2040, and Canada has the resources to capture 10% of that value. The main commercialization challenges in Canada are the subsidization of fossil fuels, a lack of government procurement […]
The Ethics of Mothing by Ian Whyte Oct 2020
Ian Whyte, CACOR member makes his second contribution in two weeks. (Editor: The essay is presented in the attached PDF )
Making my decisions – do least harm
Ian Whyte, Canadian Club of Rome member, recently wrote: An ecocentric worldview is needed. Personally, I think that little is to be gained in putting down today’s dominant anthropocentric paradigm, other than to say it has utterly failed life, and therefore must be abandoned. Energy should be directed towards outlining a new, life-affirming, paradigm. I’ve […]
What we’ve learned about COVID-19: We have to keep learning
Dr. John Hollins, past Chair Canadian Club of Rome, submitted this oped letter to the Globe and Mail. “André Picard may be right that during seven months, we’ve learned a lot of science about how the virus kills and how we develop immunity (or not). But while some public health authorities were changing their tune, […]
Urbanization and over population
John Verdon, CACOR member, recently in an email conversation on population with Gabriela Gref Innes, said: As Geoffrey West’s book makes very clear – cities not only provide a 25% energy/material savings with a doubling of size – they provide a 15% increase in opportunity with each doubling. Urbanization by increasing the density (not just […]