A week dedicated to topics that underscore impacts environmentalists don’t want to discuss April 22 was Earth Day, the March for Science and Lenin’s birthday (which many say is appropriate, since environmentalism is now green on the outside and red, anti-free...
Gasoline is cheap. Electricity is expensive. Bad environmental policy contributed to both outcomes Have you noticed the modern practice of counting the benefits of environmental policies in “cars-off-the-road” units? When the Tories launched their massive...
The concept of ocean acidification is a recent phenomenon that has resulted in an explosion of journal articles, media reports and alarmist publications from environmental organizations. Many papers on ocean acidification, said to be caused by rising man-made CO2...
The first formal definition of “sustainability” was given by the 1987 Brundtland Report or, properly, the Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development. “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising...
As we enter the year 2022, most Canadians will have lived their entire lives under the shibboleth that says we have the best health-care system in the world. Our beloved medicare is universal in scope, free of charge and offers equal access to all. What country could...
Calgary has sworn in its first female mayor. A week earlier, less than 24 hours after winning the mayoral race, she gave her first post-election talk-radio interview to Ryan Jespersen, mostly involving a series of softball questions. He asked her the obligatory woke...
The UK government is considering establishing a Green Investment Bank to stimulate investment in strategic technologies.
Evidence given to the committee suggests the UK will need to raise between £200bn and £1 trillion over the next 10 to 20 years if it is to meet the government’s climate change and renewable energy targets.
Traditional sources of private fundraising are only likely to deliver between £50bn and £80bn, accountants Ernst & Young told the committee.
The role of government should be to ban fluorescent light bulbs, because it is they that allow private profit at the public expense.
At the University of British Columbia, scientists found that Vancouver-born infants of well-educated mothers are deficient in omega-3 fatty acids.
The geniuses at the drugstore chain’s head office who ordered the surcharge on plastic bags were, no doubt, sure they were on to something. They’d be showing their concern for the environment by encouraging customers to bring their own permanent, cloth shopping bags. They’d be showing they have a social conscience and that they were in-tune with their customers’ desires to go fashionably “green.” (Not to mention that charging five cents for a bag that costs the chain a fraction of cent, multiplied by millions of bags per year, is good for the bottom line.)
The Bloc has complained that sending weather radios to schools and youth groups is a waste of money.
In 2000, a tornado killed 12 people in Pine Lake Alberta, lives that could have been saved if they had advance warning about the tornado.
The House voted to block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants, refineries and other stationary sources.
From the Financial Post, a report that suggests that heavy data users are not data hogs but rather an early indicator of what the typical customer will consume in the future.
The research suggests that the demand of heavy users today will be characteristic of typical users by 2015. If this situation emerges, we need to ask how UBB will solve traffic congestion on telco Internet services.
NASA’s attempt today to launch a satellite to study global warming processes resulted in failure
Starting in 2012, the Government of Canada proposes to start the process that will effectively ban the sale of incandescent light bulbs.
In general, it is believed that compact fluorescent bulbs and LED bulbs are more efficient than incandescent bulb. While that is true in most cases, there can be exceptions to the rule.