The new Energy Currencies
I’ve been invited to speak at the upcoming Smart Grid Conference at UOIT (University of Ontario, Institute of Technology) in Oshawa, Ontario, to be held between Aug 17-19th, 2015. The new millenium and...
View ArticleHow using different language can help us unify around environmental initiatives.
I had an interesting lunch with a cousin of mine in NYC last week. He is a proud Republican (nothing wrong with that ) and does not agree with any of the so-called “climate change fanatics”. His view...
View ArticleWalking the Talk of Clean Air…
There is a drive in Quebec (pun intended) for a zero emissions law which would force car makers, much like in 11 states in the US, to sell a minimum number of electric vehicles as a percentage of sales...
View ArticleSecond time around…
I seem to be having a few “deja vu’s” recently and it gave me pause to think this weekend about how history can repeat itself when we don’t learn the lessons of the past sufficiently. I am today faced...
View ArticleHybrid Energy Innovations Round Up
Further to my original post on the hybrid energy conference in New York about a month ago, we’ve now had available the presentations which were made. What I found most interesting is the consistent...
View ArticleZero Emission Laws Make a Difference
Recently I’ve participated in a series of discussions regarding the viability and results of passing Zero Emission laws. For those that don’t know what these are, about 10 States in the USA have passed...
View ArticleThe automotive world, as we knew it, is done.
The automotive world turned modern societies on their heads with the advent of propulsed mechanical transportation over 100 years ago. The very first vehicles were in fact electric, yet then morphed...
View ArticleWhen our energy travels with us…..
Many are looking to the mobile phone industry for a model in which energy will be purchased, sold, created, stored and traded in the future. For this to occur we need a significant shift in thinking by...
View ArticleWhere is the Canada I once knew?
As a federal election nears, I am left wondering where the Canada that I loved has gone to? Much has been written by others about the rightward drift of the country under the Harper administration....
View ArticleTrump’s “location” strategy…
The essence of any real estate deal is to have the vision of what to do with specific locations. If you have a vision beyond others, you will pay more for that real estate and turn it into multiples of...
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