Tag: Colin Isaacs
Policy POV: Plastic pollution hotspots and circular solutions
When Ontario's Blue Box household recycling initiative was launched in the 1980s it was lauded as being at least one of the major answers...
Policy POV: How to validate your environmental claims and avoid greenwashing
The terms “greenwash” and “greenwashing” were reportedly first used by American ecologist Jay Westerveld in the mid-1980s to describe the practice of making invalid...
Policy POV: Canada needs to turn on the taps for water...
A June 2023 article from the Yale University School of the Environment with the intriguing title "Beyond the Yuck Factor: Cities Turn to 'Extreme'...
Collaboration on clean energy and more underscored at G7 summit
The leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) countries, which includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as...
Policy POV: Barriers to effectively resolving environmental risks
Politicians are not the only people who too often seem to believe that tough regulations can solve all of our environmental challenges. It is...
Policy POV: The big-ticket green budget
The concept of a green economy, led by green budgets from governments, has been around for several decades but this year's budget may be...
Policy Perspectives: Why is Canada having such a tough time meeting...
A recent report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) on global methane emissions helps clarify why Canada is having such a difficult time meeting...
UN initiative to address climate confusion and misinformation
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres was quite candid in his address: "We are flirting with climate...
Legal action launched for climate change-related damage
What would you do if you were a member of a municipal council frustrated by the lack of government action on climate change and...
Investing in 2023? Developing cleantech — here and abroad — is...
From precision farming to energy infrastructure, all indicators show that Canada is poised for future growth in clean technology. This was the focus of...
