PostedMar 10, 2021 | Covid-19, international news, lifestyle, news, opinion
By Ross Thrasher One year has passed since the World Health Organization declared a coronavirus pandemic emergency on March 11, 2020. And what a year it has been, with 118 million worldwide cases of the COVID-19 pathogen so far, of which 2.6 million have been...
PostedMar 4, 2021 | climate change, e-vehicles, energy, GenZ Electric Vehicle Education Project, lifestyle, opinion, Youth
By Justin B The GenZ Electric Vehicle Education Project #GenZGoesElectric Introduction In partnership with the Fraser Basin Council’s, Emotive, BC team and the Vancouver Electric Vehicle Association, GTEC is currently delivering an Electric Vehicle Education program...
PostedFeb 19, 2021 | energy, lifestyle, news, opinion, technology
By Ken McFarlane This is a response to Andrea Reimer’s recent National Observer article – https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/02/18/opinion/cleantech-bcs-100-billion-dollar-opportunity The article itself refers to KPMG’s third BC Cleantech Report Card. As with...
PostedNov 6, 2020 | climate change, e-vehicles, energy, lifestyle, opinion, policy, sustainability
Over the past several months GTEC participated in a community consultation process about the City of Vancouver’s Climate Emergency Action Plan (CEAP). The plan originated in the City’s formal recognition of the climate emergency in the spring of 2019. Participants in...
PostedJul 24, 2020 | climate change, Covid-19, international news, lifestyle, news, opinion
By Ross Thrasher On July 22 the Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation has once again updated its country-by-country COVID-19 mortality projections (http://www.healthdata.org/covid/updates). Unfortunately two of the current hot spots, India and South Africa,...
PostedJul 7, 2020 | Covid-19, international news, lifestyle, news, opinion
By Ross Thrasher Like a cluster of wildfires, COVID-19 is raging across the sunbowl states of Florida, Texas and Arizona. Many other states have also experienced rising rates of infection as 11% of the nation has now been tested. Statistics indicate that more...
