According to Thomas Mueller, president and CEO of the Canada Green Building Council, buildings are responsible for 30% of the country’s emissions, which are mostly generated by heating, cooling, and
After an unprecedented five-party coalition formed between centrist, leftist, and green parties, Finland’s new government is making a bold move. They have pledged to become carbon neutral by 2035, far
A new report by the David Suzuki Foundation reveals how Canada can zero out our emissions by the middle of this century. Based on decarbonization studies in Canada and around the world, it highlights
Canada, the UK, and the US often ship contaminated, mixed, or non-recyclable waste to Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, among other countries. This enables richer countries to adopt an ‘out of
Amid current floods triggering states of emergency and forced evacuations in Quebec, Canada’s National Building Code is being updated to address the imperative and very urgent challenges posed by
There is a scholar, Alfred Whitehead, who talks about the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, that is when an abstract belief is treated as if it were a concrete real event or physical entity. One
Last week, the U.S. unveiled a Green New Deal resolution, which outlines plans to become carbon neutral in the next 10 years. With a WWII-level of economic transformation, it calls for national
Buildings are responsible for 40% of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions worldwide, so they have a big part to play in keeping to a l.5 degree increase. The built environment must be carbon
This article in the National Post points out some of the complexities of reducing GHG emissions and some of the ironic aspects of blaming others rather than everyone acting now. It is interesting that
It is interesting to see the difference between the Ontario government and BC government plans to meet their climate change commitments. The new BC plan, Clean BC, was just announced and requires all