We Canadians

Reason 1: More Incentives, Lower Costs
Ontario has  planned a great incentive program that should become law very soon. For each unit (kilowatt-hour) of  solar power that you produce you would be paid over 80 cents. For each unit of power you consume you pay far less, probably just 10% of this.  This magic is achieved using Feed In [...]

They may not be the best thing since sliced bread but they are pretty close, at least in the field of renewable energy. The Feed In Tariff s (FITs) have worked wonders in many European countries including Germany, which is now the second largest producer of solar energy in the world.

There has never been a better time to plan a solar panel installation for your home in Ontario. Prices of these panels are dropping fast and the Ontario government is offering incentives to promote their use as never before. The government’s plans are still at the public review stage but they are expected to be enacted into law within a few months.

Once the new rules come into effect, homeowners will be paid 80.2 cents for each kilowatt-hour of rooftop solar power that they sell to the grid; this is over ten times the going rate for power that they buy from the grid.

Green commuting is spreading like wildfire throughout the US, as cities and counties compete with each other to provide better incentives to  workers for choosing environmentally-friendly options for getting to work. The simplest and most innovative plan belongs to Marin County in California which offers four dollars a day to County employees for using any [...]

It is good to have one set of phonebooks in the house or in an office.  But why can’t the phone companies just issue an update every year? There is not too much that changes in the phone books every year – a few telephone numbers and perhaps,  some yellow pages. By issuing a supplement [...]

Why bail out the Canadian auto industry if it keeps on producing gas-guzzling dinosaurs for which there is no longer a demand?
 
The bailout makes sense only if the automakers are willing to switch to energy-efficient small cars or electric vehicles, produced at a competitive price.
Instead, why not bail out the high-tech industry? In spite of [...]

  
It is freely available in every part of the world and it causes no pollution. This form of energy has been harnessed for hundreds of years and it can meet the planet’s current demand for energy five times over. Yet, wind energy production meets only about 1% of world’s energy needs. Why has so little [...]