Now that I have your attention let’s have some fun playing with this idea. Let’s be clear – I am NOT saying we should always continue with our paid jobs until we drop dead. I am NOT saying no to good pensions. What I am saying is that each of us needs something to do […]
Alberta has its economic answer in front of them. Will they see the forest for the trees?
By Jeff Passmore, a founder and chair of Scaling Up – Canada’s annual industrial bioeconomy business conference – and CEO of Passmore Group Inc. Federal Ministers Seamus O’Regan, Jonathan Wilkinson, Navdeep Bains, Catherine McKenna and Marie-Claude Bibeau have the economic growth, innovation and greenhouse gas emissions reduction solution right in front of them. It is the […]
Global warming solutions, explained
Humans have the solutions to address climate change. The question is: Do we have the will? By Christina Nunez PUBLISHED January 24, 2019 The evidence that humans are causing climate change, with drastic consequences for life on the planet, is overwhelming, but the question of what to do about it remains controversial. Economics, sociology, and […]
Death wish
“My father was a doctor,’ she says, ‘a very kind man. He died in the early ’70s, relatively young.’ She taps the cigarette packet on the table. ‘Of lung cancer.’ ‘Oh.’ ‘But the thing about that is,’ she says as she exhales, ‘it doesn’t take very long to die that way.” ― Anna Funder […]
Are you a Beaver or a Rat?
Are you a Beaver or a Rat? On the Perils of thinking that Adaption is the best response to the Climate Crisis Being a Canadian I, of course, see myself as a beaver and not a rat. While I know that both are rodents I will make the claim that acting more like beavers and […]