Category: General

One Pipeline? or 214 Million Solar Panels? You Pick…

The federal money offered to oil sands producers for a pipeline, if shifted to solar panels, would produce enough electricity to meet the electricity needs of 85% of all Canadian households. Here’s the math from the back of…

The Canadian Net Zero Emissions Accountability Act

The Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act – Explainer by Carolina Rodriguez The Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act was first introduced to Parliament in 2020 as Bill C-12 and later adopted in June 2021. The Act is Canada’s foundational climate…

Climate Action Polling data May 2026

Two Recent Polls – from across all of Canada by Abacus Data on behalf of Sierra Club and from 11 Key Ridings by Liaison Strategies on behalf of the Canadian Climate Action Network show Canadians don’t support any…

Silence is Deadly on Sustainability

The retreat from sustainability may look like caution, but Monika Freyman warns it risks undoing decades of hard-won progress. In her article, she argues that growing corporate and investor silence on climate and sustainability is creating a dangerous…

Presentation to BuildGreen Atlantic Conference

Canada’s Clean Economy Is Hiding in Plain Sight… People sometimes see me on the Clean50 stage, speaking off-the-cuff about incoming honourees or projects, and assume I do big audience public speaking all the time. I don’t. The Clean50…

What’s In a Word?

We all know words matter. Words matter so much that there are some we refer to only by a single letter. There are countless slurs — racial, religious, sexual — so dangerous and so loaded that most of…