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What’s in Canada’s climate plan With the United States back on track with climate change planning and Canada’s recently released plan, North America is set to act boldly on climate change issues.  Canada’s climate plan released in mid-December 2021 offers a pan-Canadian framework on clean growth and climate change, carbon pollution, carbon pricing, climate change resilience, clean…

It’s undeniable that 2020s will be a transformative decade that will “change every business, every community, every life.” Peter Fisk writes that “the changes in technology, and as a result in business and society, will be rapid, dramatic and profound.” The emerging themes are about changing societies, driven and accelerated by new technology. Fisk is…

ConsumptionDespite the many efforts, environmental threats continued to be intensified. That doesn’t mean, however, that efforts are not being made.  Consumption is defined as the use of goods and services by a household. It is a component in the calculation of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Gross domestic product (GDP) is a standard measure of a…

TechnologyIt’s to surprise that technology is forever changing, adapting, and advancing.  QuantumScape. Ever heard of it? It’s a battery startup that despite not yet reporting any revenue, is still projected to have a $44 billion market value. The company, backed by both Volkswagen and Bill Gates, now has a market value greater than Ford.  Solid-state…

What could Biden’s ‘Climate Cabinet’ realistically accomplish? Biden’s Cabinet will be not only tackling climate change, but working to change and undo the damage done with agencies in disarray, rolled back environmental protections, suppressed climate science, loss of expertise due to attrition and firings to name a few of the obstacles to address. Climate change…

Turning Pressure into Energy and Dollars Hillsboro’s first renewable energy project features the In-PRV. The system manages pressure for Hillsboro Water while generating up to 200,000 kWh of electricity per year that is fed back into the grid, offsetting the city’s cost of energy and helping to power the lights, concessions, and charging fleets at EV charging…