Archive for January 2020

Fifty Shades of Greta

January 30, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Greta Thunberg may be the the world's most famous activist but she is quick to shine the spotlight on the thousands of other activists around the world. Luisa-Marie Neubauer is an activist who is commonly called the German face of the Fridays for Future movement. However, Neubauer rejects comparisons...

Greta Shines the Spotlight on Other Climate Activists

January 29, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Greta Thunberg wants to use her celebrity status to support other young climate activists especially Indigenous people from the global south. Greta first came into public view in August 2018, when she started skipping school on Fridays to protest climate inaction. Soon other students joined her and...

Shame and Sustainability: Changing the Paradigm

January 28, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Shame may be able to move us in a more sustainable direction, it may even be able to help us change the paradigm. There is reason to believe that we can leverage the little voices in our heads to do better. We may even be able to curtail our culture of over-consumption, make more responsible consumer...

Corruption in Washington: The Money Trail Leads to the Fossil Fuel Industry

January 27, 2020 Add Comment Edit

If you want to know why elected officials flout public interest and subvert democracy follow the money. The main reason that lawmakers fail to advance policies that are in the national interest is because they are in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry. The fossil fuel industry controls academia,...

Event - Public meeting of the North American PRTR Initiative

January 26, 2020 Add Comment Edit

The public meeting of the North American PRTR Initiative will take place on February 25 and 26, 2020 at Delta Hotel, 475 Avenue du Président-Kennedy, Montreal, Québec, Canada. This meeting is for those interested in pollution prevention and sustainability within North American industry. All are invited...

Event - McGill Sustainability Research Symposium: Sustainable Food Futures

January 26, 2020 Add Comment Edit

McGill Sustainability Research Symposium (SRS) will take place on January 30, 2020 in the Thomson House Ballroom, 3650 Mc Tavish St, Montreal, Quebec. SRS is an annual one-day symposium funded by the McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative (MSSI). The upcoming 2020 symposium will be the 10th anniversary...

Event - Modern Solutions Power Systems Conference

January 25, 2020 Add Comment Edit

The 2020 Modern Solutions Power Systems Conference will take place on April 7-9, 2020 at the Indianapolis Marriott, 350 West Maryland Street Indianapolis (Indiana). Attendees will hear different perspectives about the biggest topics in the electric power industry. The focus this year is value. They...

Greta is Steadfast Despite Being the Target of Generational Warfare

January 24, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Heads of state that oppose climate action are targeting climate activist Greta Thunberg. The teenage climate warrior is undeterred by the fact that she is in the cross-hairs of a generational struggle. She has steadfastly spoken truth to power and unflinchingly confronted the inaction and lies of...

What We Should and Should Not Do with Captured Carbon

January 23, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Carbon capture technologies are an essential part of efforts to reduce climate change causing greenhouse gas emissions. The captured carbon can be sequestered underground or it can be used to make products that would be made anyway. The advantage of using recycled CO2 is that it uses captured...

Fossil Fuel Powered Politics Driving Trump's War with Nature

January 22, 2020 Add Comment Edit

The Trump administration will live in infamy for exacerbating climate change and perpetrating genocide against nature. This administration has systematically undermined the well being of the natural world. Deregulation has decimated environmental protections including the Endangered Species Act (ESA)....

A Carbon Market for Aviation could Spur the Growth of NETs

January 21, 2020 Add Comment Edit

There is an increasing need to curtail emissions from airlines. Traditional air travel generates some of the most damaging greenhouse gases but if carbon markets were used by the aviation industry it could provide a massive and much needed boost to negative emission technologies (NETs). Air travel...

Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss are Center Stage at WEF 2020

January 20, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Last year climate change was a hot topic in Davos, but this year it is the overwhelmingly dominant concern. Along with biodiversity loss, climate change is considered to be the greatest threat the world faces. This is the finding of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risks Report 2020. The warning...

Event - Sustainable Finance | Clean Energy Conference

January 19, 2020 Add Comment Edit

The Sustainable Finance | Clean Energy Conference will take place on May 28, 2020 in Toronto, Canada. Canada aspires to transition to low GHG emission growth. To turn those aspirations into achievements, they will need to address the barriers slowing that transition. The event address existing barriers...