PostedOct 6, 2020 | climate change, e-vehicles, energy, lifestyle, sustainability, technology
The $2-billion deal to kick-start electric vehicle production at Ford Canada plants is long overdue. Save for a brief run of electric RAV4s at Toyota Canada’s plant, it will be Canada’s first major foray into large scale EV production and component supply. And it is...
PostedOct 6, 2020 | e-vehicles, energy, lifestyle, sustainability, technology
Vancouver, BC October 6, 2020 – for immediate release Electric vehicle associations representing 42,000 EV owners across the province have submitted a list of ten recommended policies for parties to include in their platforms. These measures will ensure that electric...
PostedAug 23, 2020 | climate change, Covid-19, international news, lifestyle, news, sustainability
By Ross Thrasher The Institute for Health Metrics & Education at the University of Washington has just revised its COVID-19 mortality projections to December 1st (http://www.healthdata.org/covid/updates). For each country over the next 100 days, trend lines are...
PostedJun 13, 2020 | climate change, Covid-19, international news, lifestyle, opinion, sustainability
By Ross Thrasher It’s ironic that the affluent countries of Western Europe and North America have borne the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic so far. Generally speaking these nations are well endowed with stable governments, robust economic and health-care...
PostedJun 8, 2020 | climate change, international news, lifestyle, news, opinion, policy, sustainability
By Arden Henley The climate crisis will become a homelessness crisis. Both are generated by the same set of values and the same economic system. In a reprise on a much larger scale of the large groups of people in urban environments around the world who are homeless...
PostedJun 8, 2020 | climate change, Covid-19, international news, lifestyle, news, opinion, sustainability
By Ross Thrasher We tend to think of the coronavirus curve as a single symmetrical mountain shape. However COVID-19 can often trace other paths. Bactrian camels are rare in Iran, but that country is revealing a double-hump pattern in its coronavirus infections. ...