Response to Government of NB Innovation Week May 3-10, 2015 1. What is your big idea? Please describe the nature of the product, service or partnership that you believe can help us offer better, faster and more efficient public services. (Max. 500 words) Our idea is for the government of New Brunswick to establish a … Continue reading “Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Proposal”
Category: Renewable Energy
Property Assessed Payment for Energy Retrofits (PAPER) Proposal
Securing New Brunswick’s Electrical Energy Future and Establishing a New Platform of High Quality Employment Based on a presentation to the New Brunswick Energy Policy Commission by the Woodstock Sustainable Energy Group on February 15, 2011. Updated April 2015 for presentation to the Government’s Innovation Week project. Introduction The Woodstock Sustainable Energy Group prepared and … Continue reading “Property Assessed Payment for Energy Retrofits (PAPER) Proposal”
Vulnerability to Peak Oil
Although much about our energy future is uncertain, energy science analysts are in agreement about the future of oil and other hydrocarbons: Their costs will rise, they will become harder to obtain, and they will eventually become depleted and phased out as an economically viable and source energy. There is general agreement that we are … Continue reading “Vulnerability to Peak Oil”
Our Energy Future Needs Moral Leadership
In all the media reports about the US becoming the world’s second largest producer of hydrocarbons thanks to fracking, an inescapable factor is being ignored: No matter how we calculate it, fossil fuels are a sunset industry. The same thing goes for the Alberta oil sands, which are touted as having the potential for making … Continue reading “Our Energy Future Needs Moral Leadership”
Solar Energy Now!
What is meant by solar energy? Is it the energy we have on a sunny morning to get out of bed? Most of us feel more energy on a sunny morning than we do on a cloudy or rainy one, but I don’t think this is what most would consider solar energy. Solar energy is … Continue reading “Solar Energy Now!”
The Commons and Climate Justice
There is a great need for a full understanding idea of the “Commons.” It is an idea that languishes largely disregarded. It is terminology we use in our political system – The House of Commons. Another instance where it appeared was the marriage of Prince William to Kate Middleton – a commoner. A commonwealth originally … Continue reading “The Commons and Climate Justice”