Freezing cold days and nights have hit us with an icy blast. Are you shivering in your home? It may be your house that needs an extra sweater, not you. If your house is under insulated to ...Read More

It is Earth’s fifth largest continent, yet devoid of permanent human inhabitants. Bigger than the contiguous 48 United States and Mexico together, Antarctica is the coldest, windiest and driest place on the planet. Containing approximately 87 ...Read More

We yak a lot about the economy in Canada these days when what we really need is more conversations about the low-carbon economy. The news media gives us daily reports on the rise and fall of ...Read More

Life is full of questions  ~ ‘what ifs’, ‘whys’ and ‘how comes.’ Why is life filled with transience, uncertainty, and suffering? How can I make my life problem-free and fulfilling? What if climate change results in ...Read More

Almost all of us live and work in dumb buildings. Our homes and workplaces are over-lit and under-insulated; their structural, electrical, plumbing and mechanical systems are aging, outdated and inefficient. They waste: resources, water and energy. The result ...Read More

Our Conservative federal government has an uncanny ability to find the sin in doing good. Being responsible and undertaking right action usually merits a reward, but the recently announced Home Renovation Tax Credit (HRTC) just makes ...Read More

“There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” – John Ruskin Given that writer and critic John Ruskin lived from 1819 to 1900, he must be forgiven for the above quote ...Read More

Having spent 37 of the past 39 winters in B.C.’s Southern Interior, there does come a time when I think enough is enough. Frosty is photogenic but freezing isn’t fun. Cross-country skiing is great exercise but so ...Read More

Shopping - it’s something we all do. And because of that, we shoppers are the most powerful people on the planet. Sadly, many of us just don’t know about the influence that resides in our wallets. Now ...Read More

To bailout or not to bailout? It shouldn’t even be a question. Canada’s federal government is considering financial aid to the country’s auto sector. Centered mainly in Ontario, the industry is linked to one in six ...Read More

Love Christmas and love the planet. The annual holiday dedicated to a celebration of consumption doesn’t have to preclude showing some goodwill toward the Earth. Christmas indulgences almost always involve copious carbon dioxide emissions but without ...Read More

To pollute or not to pollute, that is the question. Strange as it may seem, the answer does not lie in the Kyoto Protocol. Human activities create greenhouse gases (GHG). They are generated by the way ...Read More

Utilities are known for selling energy, but utilities know that the easiest energy to sell is conserved energy. Rather than spending millions building new electrical generating facilities, utilities like FortisBC encourage their customers to use less. ...Read More

Buildings are our best hope in the battle to combat climate change. A 2007 study by McKinsey, an international consulting firm, showed that changes in building design and construction could offset up to 6 billion tons ...Read More

“If you take one picture of China, it may not be good, but if you put all pictures together, it‚s a moving story.” C.H. Tung, former Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administration Region. The ...Read More

Cities Can Benefit Climate - and Save $ By Michael Jessen In April of last year, Canada’s “new” government released a major study predicting that compliance with the Kyoto Protocol would result in an economic apocalypse. The ...Read More

British Columbia has entered a new era. Along with the majority of the world’s scientists, the province has determined that greenhouse gas emissions are affecting life on the planet. Not content to stand by and force ...Read More

This summer the Arctic ice cap will to its lowest level since satellites started measurements in 1979. The Arctic summer sea ice will shrink by more than 20 per cent below the previous 2005 record low ...Read More

Even in the dog days of summer, sun on skin can be too much of a good thing. Though the nights are getting longer and the angle of the sun is shading south, you should still ...Read More

A community is not just a place on a map; in its truest sense, it is a neighbourhood where its inhabitants can be. Increasingly, citizens in villages, towns, and cities want their spaces to be green, ...Read More