A heat wave across parts of Texas forced the state’s grid operator to call for energy conservation on Tuesday and sent electricity prices soaring past $9,000/MWh. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) issued an Energy Emergency Alert (EEA1) around 3 p.m., when operating reserves dipped from at least 3,000 MW to below 2,300 MW. […]
Plan to Survive
Plan to Survive: New Guidebook on Living with Climate Change Download it free here; Learn how to prepare for changing conditions, weather events, impacts on your health and on what to have handy to cope in the short and medium term. Prepared by specialists and practitioners with the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome […]
Managing Land to Combat Climate Change
Land Management to Combat Climate Change The article which follows comes from CBC and identifies key steps which can help. As is noted at the end, Canada has good capacity to both define positive futures and use technologies to help achieve them. How we use the land, along with other key initiatives in energy, transport […]
Land Use and Climate Change
World warned: change now or endanger food and climate Patrick GALEY How we use our land is threatening our overall sustainability and also exacerbating climate change. For Canada the trends in climate change will diminish our ability to produce most of the crops we now grow. Less rain in the Prairies, migration northward of the […]
Trump article from the Atlantic
from The Atlantic, 2017 Please excuse a political article here, but I thought this was a barn-burner last year. Read the article…