Homeowners, supermarket operators, manufacturers and other local organizations are stepping up to compete to provide electricity supply in York Region. This diverse group of providers have been selected through an auction to help meet growing local energy needs by either generating electricity on site or reducing their electricity use on demand. Ontario’s Independent Electricity System […]
Epilogue – the choice before us
Epilogue – the choice before us Full article CoViD-19 may well exemplify the biological universal to expand that H.sapiens shares with all other life-forms. But humans have other unique qualities that we have yet to exercise fully in addressing overshoot. Our species is blessed with high intelligence, the capacity to reason logically from the evidence, and the […]
Renewable power represents almost 90% of total global power capacity added in 2020
Bucking the slowdown in most of the power sector caused by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, renewable energy actually grew in 2020, and will represent about 90% of the total power capacity added for the year, according to the International Energy Agency. A surge in new projects from China and the U.S. led the charge […]
Tesla, Lucid, Rivian, and others join forces to create ZETA: a push for electric cars only by 2030
Twenty-eight companies in the electric vehicle industry, including big names like Tesla, Lucid, and Rivian, have joined forces to create a new organization called ZETA, with the goal to push for 100% electric vehicle sales by 2030. Several markets have recently announced plans to move new car sales to electric vehicles only. These initiatives also […]
Ontario’s COVID comms need a reset
Heidi Tworek and Ian Beacock offer up four suggestions. Heidi Tworek is an associate professor of history and public policy at the University of British Columbia. Ian Beacock is a post-doctoral fellow at UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. Dr. David Williams angrily blamed citizens for not following Ontario’s COVID-19 guidelines. “What don’t […]