I awoke this morning to a CBC interview with a Ryerson prof who claims to have had an epiphany on the issue of air conditioning. Whereas he had previously believed air conditioning is bad (yes, you read that right), he…
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Germany and carbon: post-industrialism meets the Iron Rule

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Cost and effect of energy conservation
Last article I talked about the common claim that energy conservation is environmentally friendly. This is asserted as if it were natural law. But it is far from automatic. I demonstrated how a successful conservation effort to reduce Ontario’s annual…
Electrifying transportation: easy policy, local politics
Like politics, all environmentalism is local. It’s the actions you take as you go about your day that determine the balance in your own personal carbon account with Mother Earth. Fortunately, it is actually very easy, thanks to actions taken…
Can the Bruce nuclear partnership keep Ontario in Quadrant IV of the Carbon-Price Matrix?
My most recent posts on this blog have played on the theme of clean, cheap electricity as an environmental and societal benefit. Using the Electric Power Carbon-Price Matrix, I have compared electricity systems using the criteria of carbon emissions and…