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Climate & Energy
“I’d put my money on the sun and
solar energy.
What a source of power!
I hope we don’t have to wait ‘til oil and coal run
out before we tackle that.”
- Thomas Edison, 1847-1931
CLIMATE CHANGE
Royal Roads Climate Crisis Solutions Course
Files relating to the course.
Stormy
Weather: 101 Solutions to Global Climate Change, by
Guy Dauncey and Patrick Mazza.
New Society Publishers, 2001. The Nautilus Award Winning book
that describes the steps we need to take to reduce our greenhouse
gas emissions.
Our Atmosphere, Our Climate, Our
Hope
First published in ‘Earthlight’, Spring 2002 www.earthlight.org
We must cast our anchor on the far shore called ‘clean energy’.
We must hold in our hearts the vision in which the atmosphere
becomes part of the community of all life, and no longer a commodity.
The future of our planet’s ecosystems, and much of life,
depends on it.
Stormy
Weather Ahead
First published in ‘Living Lightly’,
2000 (UK)
Must it always be like this? Must we wait until after the disasters
strike before we act? This time, however, we possess a revolutionary
means of global communication – the Internet. Maybe we can
use it to mobilize our awareness, before it is too late.
Climate: The Crucial Challenge
EcoNews, October 2004
Wouldn’t it be nice if this nagging problem of global climate change would just go away? Like a head-ache, you would wake up in the morning and find that it’s gone?
Living with a Climate Monster
EcoNews, July 2004
What will it take for people to realize that global climate change is like an enormous angry monster, and the hotter it gets, the more angry it will become?
On Lightbulbs, Polar Bears and
Earth’s Future
First published in Response Magazine, October 2002 (United
Methodist Women)
What a strange and complicated world we live in. I want to live
simply, celebrating the fullness of God’s creation and acting
kindly towards my neighbours and my fellow humanity, but I am
confounded by the simple presence of a light switch.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
BC
Sustainable Energy Association:
www.bcsea.org
Personal Carbon Calculators
A Sustainable Energy Plan
for the US
First published in YES! Magazine, Fall
2001
Updated version printed in Earth
Island Journal, August 2003
The challenge is to show how we can meet America’s energy
needs by usingrenewable energy efficiently from the sun, wind,
water, waves, tides, and hydrogen.
Global Wind Energy Overview
First published in ‘Economic Development Today’,
2001
Wind energy is becoming a booming industry around the world, wherever
supportive policies are put in place. Global capacity is increasing
by 30% a year, and the prospects for offshore wind are enormous.
Danish Wind Turbine Guilds
First published in ‘Economic Development Today’,
1999
Denmark, with a population of 5 million people, generates
1600 MW of its electricity by windpower, 10% of the nation's total.
79,000 Danes own shares in the country's 5,000 wind turbines,
mostly through community guilds or co-operatives, and 17,000 people
are employed in the wind energy sector. Since this sheet was written,
Denmark’s wind capacity has risen to 2500 MW, generating
15% of the nation’s electricity.
Global Solar Energy Overview
First published in ‘Economic Development Today’,
2001
Solar energy is approaching its critical threshold, with global
production increasing by 35% a year. The implications are enormous.
Ten Steps to Reduce your
Carbon Emissions. Metric or US.
Find out what your personal emissions are, and how you can reduce
them.
Carbon Activism for Beginners
First published in The Activist, Summer 2003
In preparation for an explosion of courageous, feisty, carbon
activism all around the world, let’s clean up our own act
first.
Energy Management – The
View from 2010
Originally written for Energy Customer Magazine (not printed)
An 8-step scenario for energy utility managers, set in the year
2010.
Land and Water Fund Colorado
First published in ‘Economic Development Today’,
2001
Since 1997, the Land and Water Fund of the Rockies has spearheaded
a grassroots marketing campaign for renewable energy in Colorado
which has resulted in a five to ten-fold expansion of the local
utility’s plans for wind-generated energy.
San Francisco’s Residential
Energy Conservation Ordinance
First published in ‘Economic Development Today’,
2001
Since 1982, San Francisco has used a very progressive approach
to upgrade the energy efficiency of the city’s buildings,
producing an overall 15% increase in efficiency, while stimulating
the city’s economy.
The Vancouver Island Generation Plant,
at Duke Point, Nanaimo
A letter to Larry Bell, CEO of BC Hydro, arguing that pressing
ahead with the Duke Point gas-fired plant at Nanaimo is foolish,
when there are ample clean energy alternatives, and when global
climate change is such a severe reality. Plus Larry Bell’s
response. July/August 2003
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