Conservation

How dark should a mayor's Hour be?

rebecca — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:55:03 -0400

At 8:15 p.m. on Saturday, Mayor David Miller got into a car and drove from City Hall to a Shoppers Drug Mart on Eglinton Avenue West. He bought a card for the bar mitzvah of a family friend. Then he got back in the car, driven by his press secretary, Don Wanagas, and went to the bar mitzvah.

The Mayor did this during Earth Hour, after having called on Torontonians to "join me in the dark." read more »

The power of simple lessons

Lisa — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:22:19 -0400

Energy Probe's Norm Rubin joined CBC Radio One's "Here and Now" program recently to talk about Earth Hour. Norm hoped that Earth Hour would open people's eyes to how changing energy-use patterns can help the environment

"Most of us energy and environment wonks were first triggered by something simple, mostly as kids," says Norm. "And Earth Hour could do that for a bunch of future activists -- even if Anthropogenic Global Warming turns out to be wrong!" read more »

Conservation fraud

admin — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:40:21 -0500

The Ontario government has promised to bring a giveaway of conservation to electricity usage. Conservation and demand management, aimed at reducing energy use, are the backbones of a 20-year plan to dramatically alter consumption.. read more »

Why we should conserve

rebecca — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:16:42 -0500

Some Ontarians don't understand why they should conserve electricity, as Ontario Premier Ernie Eves implores them to do. For these dunderheads, let me connect the dots. read more »