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When the Problem Threatens the Solution
By Ralph Torrie, Managing Director (First of a two-part series) Perhaps no other industry but farming is as affected by the weather as the electric power sector. When the lights go out, the weather is...
View ArticleNo More Arabica? Coffee Drinkers Storm the Barricades on Climate Change
By Mitchell Beer, Deputy Director Well, whatever it takes to get people’s attention with proof that climate change is real, is right in front of us, and will touch every aspect of our everyday lives....
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Setting the Stage for a Renewable Energy Strategy
Canada must develop an energy strategy if it is to create a sustainable future and take advantage of the growing opportunities in the clean energy sector. Unlike most industrialized countries, Canada...
View ArticleAn 80% Carbon Reduction: It’s Not Just Business as Usual
By Ralph Torrie, Managing Director An 80% reduction in Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions is achievable by 2050, according to the Trottier Energy Futures Project (TEFP)’s review of low-carbon scenario...
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Low-Carbon Energy Futures: A Review of National Scenarios
Canada can reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to a fraction of current levels while maintaining or improving living standards and quality of life, according to Low-Carbon Energy Futures: A Review of...
View Article80% Less Carbon: Get Ready for a Prosperous Future
By Ralph Torrie It’s easy to fall into the assumption that using less energy means doing without, that a low-carbon, low-energy economy will leave us all freezing in the dark. But if you somehow drew...
View ArticleEight low-carbon energy scenarios: Similar paths, and one big gap
By Ralph Torrie The Trottier Energy Futures Project (TEFP) found a lot of similarities, a few differences and one almost universal gap in its study of eight national scenarios of a low-carbon energy...
View ArticleEighty per cent less carbon: the logistical equivalent of war
By Mitchell Beer This phrase leapt out at me as we worked on messaging for the release of the Trottier Energy Futures Project’s Low-Carbon Energy Futures: A Review of National Scenarios in late...
View ArticleLow-carbon futures: the solutions outside the energy system
By Ralph Torrie Many of the most promising and exciting opportunities to cut energy use and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are actually only indirectly related to energy. In an earlier blog...
View ArticleCollaboration is the Only Way Forward
By Richard J. Marceau Climate change is the greatest challenge facing life as we know it on the Earth today. But before we plan the changes in technology, behaviours and industrial structures that will...
View ArticleOil prices and low-carbon futures: the horns of a dilemma
By Ralph Torrie Canada epitomizes the dilemma of the petroleum addiction that has the world in its grasp. Like the other industrial economies of the OECD, Canada has had constant access to cheap and...
View ArticleWhat’s a barrel of oil really worth?
By Ralph Torrie What is a barrel of oil really worth? The answer starts out sounding like a joke that begins, “An oil producer, an economist, a consumer and an ethicist walk into a bar…” The oil...
View ArticleA transition in petroleum’s future?
By Mitchell Beer As U.S. President Barack Obama moves closer to a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, the dire warnings about the future of Canada’s petroleum resources are reaching a fever pitch....
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TEFP-Carbon Talks Bioenergy Dialogue
The future sustainability of Canada’s bioenergy feedstocks was the topic of a December 6, 2012 dialogue hosted by the Trottier Project in partnership with Vancouver-based Carbon Talks. In a low-carbon...
View ArticleCanada Has No Shortage of Low-Carbon Energy
By Tyler Bryant If anything limits Canada’s transition to a low-carbon energy system, it will be integration, economics, and politics, not the lack of energy itself. An Inventory of Low-Carbon Energy...
View ArticleAn Inventory of Low-Carbon Energy for Canada
An Inventory of Low-Carbon Energy for Canada shows that Canada’s supplies of solar, wind, hydroelectric and biomass energy are much larger than the current or forecast demand for fuel and electricity,...
View ArticleThe reconfigured grid in a low-carbon energy future
By Ralph Torrie The Trottier Energy Futures Project’s Inventory of Low-Carbon Energy for Canada shows that our supplies of sustainable, low-carbon energy will be more than enough to meet our needs...
View ArticleTrottier inventory points to inevitable low-carbon transition
By Bill McKibben After reading the Trottier Project’s Inventory of Low-Carbon Energy for Canada, what I find most striking about the results is how utterly unremarkable they are. The findings on...
View ArticleFinding solutions in a sandbox: The role of universities
By John Robinson Overcoming obstacles that lie on the road to a sustainable, low-carbon future is not child’s play. Yet there’s inspiration to be found in a favourite childhood gathering place....
View ArticleGoing to the root of the problem
By Oskar Sigvaldason When you set out to solve a big, complex problem, it is essential to put your effort and resources where they will generate the best results. Based on my experience as a member of...
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