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Decoding the World's Best Energy Policies

The Worldchanging Canada Team, 8 Aug 08

By Kathryn Cooper The "winds of change" were blowing last month among 600 renewable energy leaders from 46 countries at the 7th World Wind Energy Conference in Kingston, Ontario. A global tipping point toward renewable energy is emerging, propelled...

Recovery Parks, Free Geeks and Plasma: Vancouver Debates Zero Waste

Julia Steinberger, 3 Aug 08

Can we imagine a day when, having sorted out our recyclables and compost-ables, then responsibly earmarked our "still perfectly good" stuff for reuse, we'll have no trash left to drag to the curb? What are the solutions that will take...

When is the next bus coming... exactly?

Mark Tovey, 31 Jul 08

Ottawa has introduced "a new GPS fleet tracking system on OC Transpo buses to improve service". Even with such a system, there may be significant challenges to running buses precisely on time with variable traffic. Once buses are GPS...

Ontario to Protect Northern Boreal Forest

Sarah Kuck, 27 Jul 08

On July 14th, Premier Dalton McGuinty announced that Ontario will set aside 55 million acres of Northern Boreal Forest for permanent protection from development. The area, one of the world's largest intact forest and wetland ecosystems, is roughly the...

Harlan Wilson: Paradoxes of green democracy

The Worldchanging Canada Team, 25 Jul 08

by David Delaney This valuable long (21 pages) paper on the prospects for democracy and "greenery" reviews and synthesizes many ideas about democracy in support of its thesis. Wilson is Professor of Politics at Oberlin college. He argues persuasively that...

Flirtation with free fares

Mark Tovey

Milton did it. Ottawa won't do it. Halifax does it in the summer. Calgary does it all the time, at least downtown. Hamilton keeps flirting with it. More and more cities in Canada are getting the free transit itch, and...

Dancing to the beat of positive change

Peter ter Weeme

Here we are: it’s already halfway through July and I’m still trying to check off the list of things I was going to do this summer. You know, lose a few pounds, read a stack of books, get the garden...

Now is the time to speak out

Karl Schroeder

This is one of those times when Canadians need to vote for a policy rather than voting for a party. It may not matter if the Liberals get into power this fall or whether they actually implement a carbon tax...

Eating solar dogfood

Mark Tovey

When open source programmers use their own software, they are said, in the trade, to be "eating their own dogfood". A key question in weening our economy away from fossil fuels is whether the manufacturing sector can power its physical...

Parliament Hill to Bullfrog It?

Mark Tovey

Is Parliament Hill about to go green—at least a little bit? A report in 24 hours says that the Commons Board of internal Economy is considering putting the Hill on Bullfrog Power: "In comments made to the Hill Times, Liberal...

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