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George Monbiot is fun to read, and he turns out to be just as much fun to watch. He's been conducting a set of video interviews for the Guardian with key policy-makers, called 'Monbiot meets...'. In his columns and books...

A new study published in Science shows that using catch shares (which incentivize growth in fish stocks) help reverse declines in fish populations and avert collapses. Video: COMPASS: Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea Front photo: Costello et al...

The Pembina Institute noted in their e-newsletter that the communities of Dawson Creek and the West Moberly First Nations were recipients of a grant that will help them implement solar hot water heating within their buildings. The grant came from...

This is an update to Jon Booren's February 2008 article on The Now House™. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Now House™ Project, it was undertaken as part of the CMHC's net-zero housing design challenge. However...

By Colleen Kimmett. When it comes to trash, some offers to take it out seem too good to be true. At the GLOBE business and environment convention in Vancouver last March, Rod Bryden, president of Plasco Energy Group, told the...

By Chris Turner. For ten weeks this summer, a twelve-block stretch of Ste. Catherine Street in Montreal was transformed into a vibrant public square. It covered most of the main drag of the Ville-Marie neighbourhood – better known as Montreal’s...

By Colleen Kimmett. Surfing in Hawaii's wake when it comes to solar energy British Columbia's abundant hydropower means our hands stay almost clean of dirty electricity imports. But what most people don't know is that B.C.'s hands are already dirty...

This is the fifth and final part of a multi-part story by Madeline Ashby imagining a series of future technologies, and one way they might end up being applied. Meegan was terrifically strong. Once she had both Violet's hands in...

This is the fourth part of a multi-part story by Madeline Ashby imagining a series of future technologies, and one way they might end up being applied. "It's, like..." Words failed Violet as she tried describing the basement. Finally she...

The Canadian Broadcasting Company radio show Ideas has an interesting eighteen part series of hour long shows called How to think about Science. These shows are available on the web as podcasts or streaming audio. They describe the series...

This is the third part of a multi-part story by Madeline Ashby imagining a series of future technologies, and one way they might end up being applied. Prom night, her mom took a lot of photos and her dad gave...

This is the second part of a multi-part story by Madeline Ashby imagining a series of future technologies, and one way they might end up being applied. At home, under the covers, Violet talked to her boyfriend. "There are a...

This is the first part of a multi-part story by Madeline Ashby imagining a series of future technologies, and one way they might end up being applied. Violet snapped three photos of herself from various angles, sent them, and waited...

Just over one year ago I had a chance to speak with Kevin Hydes, the previous Chair of the World Green Building Council. The WorldGBC had at the time, recently based its operation out of Toronto. Hydes spoke of an...
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Vandana Shiva on shifting the conversation "from the stratosphere to the soil": striving for a "carbon-rich" future.
A process to identify grand challenges that might be solved through engineering means, with information on each. Visitors can rank and comment.
A British physicist, David J.C. MacKay, runs the numbers on sustainable energy sources: Sustainable Energy – without the hot air. (UIT Cambridge, 2008. ISBN 978-0-9544529-3-3.). Creative Commons licensed too.
A fascinating 448 page book of Canadian resilence strategies for climate change: Lemmen DS, Warren FJ, Lacroix J, Bush E, From Impacts to Adaptation: Canada in a Changing Climate 2007 (NRCan, 2008).
A quality mark established by the Marine Stewardship Council, representing 7% of all fish caught, is proving more successful in protecting stocks than the WTO.
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