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...

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...

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...

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...