Giant Canadian construction project incorporates low carbon heating and cooling: Don Pittis The Well rising on the old Globe and Mail site digs for more green innovations CBC News · Posted: Jan 27, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 27 Construction workers are dwarfed by the enormous underground reservoir at The Well in downtown Toronto […]
Renewable Energy Could Power the World by 2050
“This is the consensus of 47 peer-reviewed research papers from 13 independent groups with a total of 91 authors that have been brought together by Stanford University in California. Some of the papers take a broad sweep across the world, adding together the potential for each technology to see if individual countries or whole regions could survive […]
Sea Change
Climate in Crisis Climate change models predicted ocean currents would speed up — but not this soon Ocean currents are the undersea conveyor belts that help regulate Earth’s climate and influence weather systems around the world. Children jump in the waves on the beach in Long Branch, New Jersey, on Sept. 17, 2019.Johannes Eisele / […]
6 ways ordinary people can prevent climate change, according to researchers and advocates
By Julie Compton If you’re worried climate change and its impact at home and around the world, focus on your own actions and habits, say environmental advocates. Alexandre Meneghini / Reuters file In October, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a leading international body on climate change researchers, released an alarming report. The study found that […]
Innovation for a greener Canada
Dr. John Hollins, past Chair CACOR explains: Canada is edging, oh so slowly, towards a greener future. Individual initiative This is happening as a result of research, development, and in some cases small-scale deployment of promising new technologies by entrepreneurs: individual citizens, ad hoc groups from labour and engineering, researchers in universities and governmental laboratories, […]