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A\J History
This article is part of A\J's web series Night School. In celebration of back-to-school time and our Night issue, the A\J web team brought you a series of quick lessons, posted between September 16 to...
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Germany: Smart Grids, Efficiency and Carbon Neutrality
Ontario’s green energy plans have been modelled on the success of Germany’s national program to switch to renewable, non-carbon energy sources. The Feed-in Tariff Program, Green Energy Act legislation...
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The Renewables & Desalination Dilemma
It’s an interesting fact that drinking seawater will only make you thirstier, because of all the salt. This is one of several reasons why being lost at sea would be profoundly unpleasant. Of course, if...
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The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway
This book is an engaging account of journalist Arno Kopecky’s sailing trip from Vancouver Island to Kitimat and explores what the Northern Gateway project would mean for the animals and people who...
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Battery Horizon
During the Ontario ice storm of 1998, millions of people were left without power for weeks in the middle of January. Since then, questions have been raised about how so many could go without...
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Aboriginal Power: Clean Energy & The Future of Canada's First Peoples
When breaking new ground, it’s quite common to find oneself in muddy water. Aboriginal Power is all about how Indigenous Peoples in Canada have broken new ground by entering the renewable energy foray,...
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Is Coal Making a Comeback?
One year after The Economist declared an "unwelcomed coal renaissance", Bloomberg News reported in early January that Europe’s lust for lower energy prices was reviving lignite mining for coal-fired...
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Fracking's Return on Investment is a Myth
Caption: A shale gas well in Pennsylvania. Photo by Jeremy Buckingham MLC on the Frack Finding Tour. Used under a Creative Commons 2.0 Generic license.J. David Hughes is a geoscientist with four...
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The Trial of David Suzuki
After announcing his Carbon Manifesto in front of the Toronto Courthouse, David Suzuki was part of a mock trial held on November 6, 2013 at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). The premise of The Trial was...
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The Nature of Things: The Nano Revolution
Around the year 2000, I attended a conference organized by the Council of Canadians about the risks associated with genetically modified organisms. At some point during the proceedings, an...
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Renewables Aren't Perfect, and That's Okay
Caption: Solar panel "trees" are one stage in the evolution of solar power.Photo © lzf \ Fotolia.comSometime during the next 100 years or so, the world is going to run out of platinum. If we haven’t...
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Finally, a Solar Car That Doesn't Look Like a Spaceship
Caption: The Midnight Sun VII from the University of Waterloo Solar Rayce Car Team. They're currently working on the MS XI.The cutting edge in solar cars is a vehicle that looks like something your dad...
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The Sexy Topic of Converting Waste to Biofuel
Caption: From Curb to Fuel: Edmonton's Waste-to-Biofuels and Chemicals Facility, official video by the City of Edmonton.In a recent interview, Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson called waste management a...
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Should We Give Biomass the Coal'd Shoulder?
In the quest for sustainable sources of energy, we can anticipate the odd bump in the road. Some technologies appear unlikely to ever pan out (so long, cold fusion!), while others (oh, hi there solar...
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Incredible Breakthrough Could Boost Solar Power Efficiency to Almost 100%
Given all the ways in which humans are otherwise smarter and better educated than plants, you’d think we would have established a bit more of an advantage in our capacity to harvest the sun’s...
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Is a (Mostly) Solar World Coming?
Recent gains in solar and wind energy are tremendously encouraging. In 2013 there were 40 gigawatts of new solar installed globally and for 2014 the estimate is for 52 gigawatts and the rate of...
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What's Driving Nuclear Fusion?
Submarines: the mother of all invention.Or at least, a very specific kind of invention.In October, American defence contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. announced that it had made a nuclear fusion...
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Fundy Rising
This is an excerpt from A\J's Water issue. Subscribe or order the issue now for this and more great stories on fresh- and salt-water initiatives that are making waves and inspiring change in our...
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