In last month’s blog post I talked about the Climate Lens assessment framework for Canadian infrastructure projects. One of the interesting elements about th...

We are living through a time of rapid climate change. As with any system or organism exposed to a changing environment, we need to adapt to thrive. When it c...

Firefly is proud to announce the publication of our 2019 greenhouse gas inventory and action plan. The full inventory can be downloaded here. - Our inventory...

Last June I posted a blog about getting my attic insulation upgraded. You can read the full blog post here, but as a quick reminder, I upgraded from R30 to R...

This morning’s papers featured some rather unfortunate news for our namesake insect, the firefly. As we talked about in a previous post, fireflies are not ju...

For the last in our three-part series looking at the changes to the new version of ISO 14064, we’re looking at part 2 – GHG projects (you can read our post a...

The international standard for GHG inventories – ISO 14064-1 – was updated almost one year ago, in December 2018. With the end of the year fast approaching,...

While working on a municipal GHG inventory recently, I got into an illuminating discussion with my client about the meaning of the term 'net zero'. My clien...

We are all familiar with the concept of a budget when it comes to our household finances or government spending. A nice, simple definition of a budget is: “...

Everyone knows that Alberta has a “dirty” electricity grid. So, in our province, an electric car can’t actually make good environmental sense unless you also...

At the end of June, I had the pleasure of teaching the CSA’s ISO 14064-3 course on ‘Greenhouse Gas Validation and Verification” to a group of engaged and eag...

You may be thinking about upgrading the energy efficiency of your building – your home or office, for example – to be more comfortable, to save money, to sav...

It's important to Firefly that we "walk the talk". In fact, it's one of our core values. This means we strive to be the change that we advise others to be, ...

In my last blog post, I introduced the concept of Global Warming Potentials (GWPs) and how they are used to equate releases of different greenhouse gases – c...

There are many different greenhouse gases (for a primer on what a greenhouse gas is, see my earlier post), some of which last longer in the atmosphere than o...

Fireflies are an amazing insect. There are thousands of species of them - none of which are actually flies (they are beetles) and none of which are actually...

I don’t like to make assumptions. While climate change has received a lot of media attention over the last couple of decades, I still don’t think it’s wise t...