Despite anemic sales and despite losing money on every battery-electric vehicle they sell, mainstream automakers are forging ahead. Here’s why, and here’s what’s needed for them to be successful. For Ford, such thinking represents a major strategy shift. Only eight years ago, the company rolled out the Ford Focus Electric, a hatchback with a tiny […]
Jacob Nickerson guest posting
Jacob Nickerson, 3rd year engineering student, our guest author this week, wrote the following report after visiting the Manotick Microgrid. Conclusion With the ever-growing threat of climate change looming above, it is reassuring to see passionate scientists such as Dr. Hunter dedicated to proving the usefulness and viability of clean, green, renewable energy. His testimonial […]
wild mammal destruction by humans
Humans have destroyed 83% of wild mammals Humankind is revealed as simultaneously insignificant and utterly dominant in the grand scheme of life on Earth by a groundbreaking new assessment of all life on the planet. The world’s 7.6 billion people represent just 0.01% of all living things, according to the study. Yet since the dawn […]
The thin green line: Scientists must do more to limit the toll of burgeoning infrastructure on nature and society
The Ecological Citizen is pleased to pre publish William Laurance’s new article on mega infrastructure projects titled “The thin green line: Scientists must do more to limit the toll of burgeoning infrastructure on nature and society” <https://www.ecologicalcitizen.net/#thingreenline> “The global explosion of built infrastructure is arguably the most urgent environmental threat today. . . This tsunami […]
The Nuclear Option Is the Real Green Deal.
Alan Emery has spoken to the CACOR lunnch meetings in Ottawa recently; this appeared in the Wall Street Journal on Feb 25. The Nuclear Option Is the Real Green Deal. A coal plant produces about as much toxic waste in an hour as a nuclear plant produces in a year. John Rie and Alan Emery […]