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Rob Miller is a retired systems engineer, formerly with General Dynamics Canada, who now volunteers with the Calgary Climate Hub and writes on behalf of Eco-Elders for Climate Action. As a climate activist, he works to stop old-growth logging in B.C., to reject coal mining on Alberta’s eastern slopes, to facilitate community involvement in urban afforestation, and to advocate for renewable energy. Miller uses a “systems-thinking” approach to learn, understand, and defend the ecosystems that are under threat by climate change and unrestrained resource development. He lives in Calgary.

15 Articles

ChatGPT at a loss for words when it comes to Big Oil

Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT wasn't much help in my research into carbon capture and storage.
Opinion | January 27th 2023

Gas stoves are the latest battleground in the energy transition 

It remains to be seen if people will turn their backs on natural gas stoves. Induction and traditional electric models are better for the environment — inside and outside the home.
Opinion, Climate Solutions Reporting | January 24th 2023

Is the latest AI chatbot a game-changing tool or something more sinister?

Will the new frontier of artificial intelligence, like social media, begin as a forum for addictive fun that spirals into an online world populated by dark forces such as bullying, racism, manipulation, corruption, greed and anger?
Opinion | January 17th 2023

Amidst the climate crisis, the case for hope is getting stronger

The movement to protect nature, transition away from fossil fuels and create an equitable society won’t achieve critical mass without supporters, adopters, innovators and foot soldiers.
Opinion, Climate Solutions Reporting | December 28th 2022

Forest protection should be a high priority at COP15

More than 80 years after Ernest Callaway Manning warned "over-cutting" was "creating barren lands", the forestry industry has plundered the majority of the most valued old-growth forests in B.C.
Negotiating survival
Opinion | December 14th 2022

Utilities are delaying the grid renewal required to electrify everything

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.
Negotiating survival
Opinion | November 16th 2022

Conservatives slam the carbon tax for adding to inflation, but fail to mention its rebates

The federal Conservatives promise to scrap the carbon tax and thereby make all our lives affordable again. It’s a cunning attempt to link inflation to the carbon tax, writes Rob Miller.
Opinion | October 12th 2022

The best way to help a forest bounce back from a pine beetle attack is leave it alone

Beetles are threatening Canada's largest and oldest trees. Their immune systems will fight back, but an exploding beetle population can overwhelm their defences. 
Opinion | September 26th 2022

Green shoots of the hydrogen economy

In spite of these forceful objections, multiple industries have been quietly getting on with the job of creating a hydrogen economy, writes Rob Miller.
Opinion | September 12th 2022

Canada needs a massive battery

Renewable energy power storage is successfully being added to the North American grid to keep the lights on, computers running and the electric vehicles charging.
Canada's Clean Economy
Opinion | August 29th 2022
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