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Speaker: Mike Fletcher Topic: City of Ottawa: Emissions Reduction Inventory and Community Energy Planning. Time: Jul 12, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: The key to making progress on many problems is to do the math. Ottawa’s climate strategy does just that and it shows that almost half of our community’s greenhouse gas emissions […]
Speaker: Lierre Keith Topic: Bright Green Lies. Time: Sep 6, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Once, environmentalism was about saving wild places and wild creatures from destruction. Now, it’s about finding a new power source to continue their destruction. The “bright greens” believe three lies: that industrial civilization can be sustained if we simply switch […]
Speaker: Brian Kelly Topic: “The Kelly Household’s Journey Towards Zero Carbon” Time: Sep 27, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: This presentation traces the 15-year journey of the Kelly household towards zero carbon emissions, starting with the purchase of a “code-built” house in 2008, its energy retrofit over the years, the purchase of an electric […]
Speaker: Raymond Leury Subject: Part 2: GHG Trends and Reasons for Hope and Rapid Progress on the Climate Front. Time: Feb 7, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Subject: Climate change is an existential threat. Temperature records keep falling, climate emergencies are declared, yet we don’t seem to be making much progress in addressing […]
Speaker: Lalith Gunaratne Topic: Renewable Energy Adventures: Solar and Small Hydro Stories that bind Canada and Sri Lanka Time: Apr 3, 2024 Summary: The presentation will highlight a lifetime of renewable energy adventures with solar and small hydro that began with a Canadian-Sri Lankan collaboration in 1985 - continuing to date. The entrepreneurship story is […]
Speaker: Paul Martin Topic: Hydrogen, Hopium, and Scale. Time: Jun 26, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: EV vs hydrogen trucks and the materials and primary energy fallacy myths. Biography: Paul Martin is a Toronto based chemical engineer with extensive experience in consulting engineering. He has about three decades worth of experience with a […]
