Car sharing 101

Kid with ski poles raised beside a Modo shared car

Consider this: a privately owned car can cost at least $10,000 a year, yet, for 95% of the time, it sits idle doing nothing, just slowly losing its value each and every day. Car sharing means you have use of a fleet of cars, without the responsibilities that go along with owning a car – … Read more

Andrew Weaver On Why BC LNG is a Gassy Fairy Tale (video)

Weaver 2021 interview thumbnail

I posted this video profile of Andrew Weaver’s two terms in the BC Legislature, yesterday to my YouTube channel. It includes footage and interviews, not used in my feature documentary Running On Climate, looking at how the BC Greens went from a 30-year-old party with no seats to holding the balance of power in the … Read more

Epic Kid Tricycle Video Background

Tricycling out of Vancouver

Ever since they have had the neck muscles to hold their cranium above their shoulders our kids have been on human-powered wheels: on seats on the back of our bikes, in bike trailers, on scooters, pedal bikes, roller blades, skateboards, and tricycles. (Article continues below video) One big reason why we never became a car … Read more

Predicting the Price of European Carbon in December 2021

Cambie Bridge, Vancouver at high Tide

President Joe Biden has wasted no time in winding back the damage done by his predecessor. On day one of his four-year term, Biden is taking the US back into the Paris Agreement and has carbon reduction in his sights, including axing the Keystone XL pipeline. There are reasons to be cautiously optimistic: the U.S. … Read more

British Columbia Signalled the Exact Price of EU Carbon Now, A Year Ago

Climate March Sign - "Denial is Not a Policy"

I’m celebrating. At the beginning of 2020, climate and energy journo Alessandro Vitelli (aka @CarbonReporter) held a competition on Twitter to see who could predict the price of a tonne of CO2e (carbon dioxide or equivalent) on the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Futures at the end of the year.  Specifically, he asked for a prediction for … Read more