Conserve Energy Dollars By MICHAEL JESSEN Utilities are known for selling energy, but utilities know that the easiest energy to sell is conserved energy. Rather than spending millions building new electrical generating facilities, utilities like FortisBC encourage ...Read More

Buildings are our best hope in the battle to combat climate change. A 2007 study by McKinsey, an international consulting firm, showed that changes in building design and construction could offset up to 6 billion tons ...Read More

If you take one picture of China, it may not be good, but if you put all pictures together, it’s a moving story. – C.H. Tung, former Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special ...Read More

Cities Can Benefit Climate - and Save $ By Michael Jessen In April 2007, Canada’s “new” government released a major study predicting that compliance with the Kyoto Protocol would result in an economic apocalypse. The Environment Canada analysis ...Read More

Beta videos, eight-track tapes, the manual typewriter, and the plastic shopping bag. They all went – or in the case of the latter – is going the way of the dodo bird. Extinct. A worldwide movement to ...Read More

British Columbia has entered a new era. Along with the majority of the world’s scientists, the province has determined that greenhouse gas emissions are affecting life on the planet. Not content to stand by and force ...Read More

Shopping - it’s something we all do. And because of that, we shoppers are the most powerful people on the planet. Sadly, many of us just don’t know about the influence that resides in our wallets. Now ...Read More

It’s an evil spirit that you can’t fight with garlic or a silver cross. Depending on the language you use, it translates differently. In Japanese it is “waiting appliance electricity.” In French it is “electricity used ...Read More

Even in the early days of summer, sun on skin can be too much of a good thing. You should be concerned about getting sun-sational – and limit your exposure to the Earth’s brightest star. The ...Read More

This summer the Arctic ice cap melted to its lowest level since satellites started measurements in 1979. The Arctic summer sea ice shrank by more than 20 per cent below the previous 2005 record low in ...Read More

A community is not just a place on a map; in its truest sense, it is a neighbourhood where its inhabitants can be. Increasingly, citizens in villages, towns, and cities want their spaces to be green, ...Read More

Doing the laundry – a required task each and every week – is one of the most energy intensive things you do in your home. Typical electric clothes washers and dryers generate 2.27 kilograms of CO2 ...Read More