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...
View ArticleSustainable 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...
View ArticleEnergy 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,...
View ArticleDo 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleAdoption 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...
View ArticleNo 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...
View ArticleSubmission 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...
View ArticleEducating 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...
View ArticleSustainable 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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