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By procuring construction products with a lower carbon footprint, governments can effectively support a sizable market for clean building products. This approach is referred to as “Buy Clean."
This 26-year-old Montreal-based PhD student at McGill University works at BrainBox AI, which uses artificial intelligence to help buildings use energy efficiently.
Trudeau's ability to provoke completely irrational responses in the people who dislike him most was evident after his public dispute with Chinese president Xi Jinping.
Despite a number of polls showing the UCP trailing Rachel Notley’s NDP, Danielle Smith seems determined to keep pushing unpopular ideas and polarizing policies.
Inaction on grid renewal is a dangerous combination of denial and delay, which ultimately results in infrastructure not being in place when wide-scale electrification begins to grow exponentially.
Should we treat the climate emergency like a war? Seth Klein thinks so. In his book, A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency, he lays out a comparison between the Second World War and the climate crisis. He argues that we can't win the war unless we work together like we did in the war against the Nazis. Max Fawcett challenges that idea.
To impress upon policymakers and the public the need to simultaneously balance short- and medium-term climate priorities, we need a more powerful narrative.
