We have almost all the solutions for the climate problem, we just have to implement them — For climate action, there are solutions where money, time and resources should be focused, and there are distractions that typically serve things other than moving the needle on climate emissions. For several years, I’ve been iterating my short list of climate actions that will work. Electrify Everything Convert all energy services to…

There never was a business case for the TMX expansion and failures of construction just dig the hole deeper — Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project never had a business case that made the slightest sense. Perhaps that’s why its construction project is such a train wreck. …

The 2011 earthquake was devastating but allowed the city to leap into the future — For six weeks this summer I lived and traveled in New Zealand. The tiny Pacific Ocean nation of five million is an interesting microcosm of climate transformation, and some initial insights and perspectives were brought into relief around my talk in Christchurch on the south island. Why was I in…

Webinar in Oz resulted in lots of great questions — While south of the equator and west of the international date line, I had the opportunity to talk with a few hundred participants in an Australian Smart Energy Council webinar. …

Webinar in Oz resulted in lots of great questions — Not long ago, I had the opportunity to talk with several hundred participants in an Australian Smart Energy Council webinar. It was organized to exploit my unusual timezone alignment with Oz as I spend a few weeks in New Zealand as a digital nomad. Many more signed up, expecting to…

Webinar in Oz resulted in lots of great questions — A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to talk with over 300 participants in an Australian Smart Energy Council webinar. It was organized to exploit my unusual timezone alignment with Oz as I spend a few weeks in New Zealand as a digital nomad. Over 600 signed up, expecting…

Webinar in Oz resulted in lots of great questions — Not long ago, I had the opportunity to talk with over 300 mostly Australian participants in a Smart Energy Council webinar. It was organized to exploit my unusual timezone alignment with Oz as I spend a few weeks in New Zealand as a digital nomad. …

Webinar in Oz resulted in lots of great questions — Recently I had the opportunity to talk with a few hundred mostly Australian participants in a Smart Energy Council webinar. It was organized to exploit my unusual timezone alignment with Oz as I spend a few weeks in New Zealand as a digital nomad. …

Webinar in Oz resulted in lots of great questions — Several weeks ago I had the opportunity to talk with a few hundred mostly Australian participants in a Smart Energy Council webinar. It was organized to exploit my unusual timezone alignment with Oz as I spend a few weeks in New Zealand as a digital nomad. …