Vancouver has a Green City plan – does Victoria?

Vancouver has a plan to be the greenest city in the world.  How about it Victoria, do we have such a plan? Cities around the world must show continued leadership to meet the urgent challenge of climate change, and the most impactful change we can make is a shift toward 100% of our energy being derived from renewable sources. The…

3 Amigo Summit: 50% electricity from clean energy by 2025

Canada, US, Mexico to focus on climate action at this week’s summit in Ottawa The United States, Mexico and Canada are set to announce that 50 per cent of North America’s electricity will come from clean power sources by 2025 at the Three Amigos summit in Ottawa this week. Currently 37 per cent of all of North America’s power comes from non emitting…

Ontario government to electrify vehicle fleet

Last week, Ontario government announced its Five-Year Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP) 2016-2020. In this CCAP, there are various Action areas such as : transportation, building and homes, land-use planning, industry and business, collaboration with indigenous communities, research and development, government and agriculture, forest & land. Ontario government to electrify its vehicle fleet Eric Carrière, June 13, 2016, Time to Electrify More details…