Energy Evolution: Ottawa’s Community Energy Transition Strategy is the action plan for how Ottawa will meet the targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the community by 100 percent by 2050. Its vision is to transform Ottawa into a thriving city powered by clean, renewable energy. On October 28, 2020, Ottawa City Council unanimously approved […]
Lessons from the CACOR Pathways Study
The straight goods, not the sunny ways John Hollins, 2020 March 6 2030 The likelihood that Canada as a country will meet the commitment that it made in Paris in 2015 to reduce emissions by 30% between 2005 and 2030 is vanishingly small. The earliest politically and practically feasible year may be 2050. Large differences […]
Critical Reasoning and Workshop on Mobilizing Values to Advance Flourishing Pathways
Speakers: John Verdon, Lalith Gunaratne, Paul Maillet, Gabriela Gref-Innes Title: Critical Reasoning and workshop on Mobilizing Values to Advance Flourishing Pathways About the event: John Verdon, Lalith Gunaratne, Gabriela Gref-Innes, and Paul Maillet will make a short presentation on Pathways to Critical Reasoning and conduct a participatory workshop/World Cafe on “Mobilizing Values to advance a […]
Canada’s Greenhouse Gases: Follow a pathway
Dr. John Hollins, past Chair CACOR Board of Directors with advice from Robert Hoffman past Chair CACOR Board of Directors [1] This opinion is based on a study by the anadian Association for the Club of Rome [2] Summary Canada’s public policy to reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases has not delivered. Canada failed by […]
A Future Without Fossil Fuels
Amos Coal Power Plant, Raymond City, West Virginia, 2004; photograph by Mitch Epstein from his ‘American Power’ series FUTURE WIHOUT FOSSIL FUELS “Kingsmill Bond” certainly sounds like a proper name for a City of London financial analyst. He looks the part, too: gray hair expertly trimmed, well-cut suit. He’s lived in Moscow and Hong Kong […]