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Conserving Electricity; 9 Simple Steps to Save Energy

by David Simms If there’s anything that could motivate us to conserve electricity, it wouldn’t be the money we’d save. Electricity’s cheap. If we were to measure the benefits of conservation against...

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Sustainable Ocean Energy on Quadra Island BC

by Carol GrayQuadra Island, at the north end of Georgia Strait between Vancouver Island and the BC mainland, is about to make a name for itself in the field of renewable ocean energy. Campbell...

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Energy Descent Action Plan for BC

When the production of oil fails to meet demand, a scenario known as Peak Oil, what then? World Peak Oil is predicted to occur sometime between 2008 and 2010, though some say it has already happened,...

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Do It Yourself: Sustainable Energy For Your Home

While governments diddle around with new nuclear power and the climate crisis threatens to go over the top, you can install alternative energy yourself at home or in your business, probably for less...

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The Growth in Biofuel Production

Compiled by Delores BrotenThe growth in biofuel projects around the world has been explosive since 2001, but not all biofuels are equal.In Victoria BC, like many cities, the gases burped out in the...

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Adoption of Biofuels - Humanitarian and Environmental Disaster

by George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian, November 22, 2004. Reprinted with permission.If human beings were without sin, we would still live in an imperfect world. Adam Smith’s notion that by...

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No Wind Farms in BC - Yet

by Guy DaunceyWind turbines are spinning on the hills of southern Alberta, and on a hill outside Whitehorse, in the Yukon. They are spinning in downtown Toronto, and along the shores of the St...

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Submission to BC Hydro’s 2004 Integrated Energy Plan

BC faces three threats from our use of energy: global warming, and the peaking of oil supplies, and natural gas supplies. BC needs policies that will accelerate investment in sustainable energy...

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Educating Students About Energy Conservation in Mission BC

by Linda Munro Along with reading, writing and arithmetic, students and educators in Mission, British Columbia are getting lessons in energy conservation. Two years ago Mission Public Schools and the...

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Sustainable Ocean Energy in BC

by Stephanie OrfordThanks to renewed interest in ocean energy in Canada, entrepreneurs are starting to harness the waves and tides off the coast of BC to generate electricity, and kick-start a new...

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