Add pollution and costs from electricity generation to that list too By聽Mark WinfieldColleen Kaiser The Ontario Independent Electricity System Operator鈥檚 (IESO)聽Annual Planning Outlook聽report released last week contains some very bad news for Ontarians in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, air quality, and future electricity costs. The directions laid out in the report also present […]
Students in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) had an opportunity for innovative experiential education during the second virtual Planning Case Competition, held earlier this fall. The event, designed for Master in Environmental Studies (MES) planning students, was hosted by the MES 91亚色 Planning Alumni Committee (MYPAC) and connects students with alumni […]
By Prof. Mark Winfield Twenty-five years ago, Mike Harris鈥檚 鈥渃ommon sense revolution鈥 heralded a of shredding the province鈥檚 planning rules, and proposals for a network of highway expansions in every direction outward across the Greater Toronto Area. The government鈥檚 plans prompted a backlash. Harris鈥 approach was widely seen as a strategy for sprawling urban development that threatened the […]
By Adjunct Prof Bruce Campbel This article was originally published on The Conversation, an independent and non-profit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. The time has come for Canada and other rich nations to pony-up and pay for the devastation they have caused countries in the Global South. That means, for a […]
Bruce Campbell, Adjunct professor, faculty of environmental and urban change, 91亚色, Canada. The time has come for Canada and other rich nations to pony-up and pay for the devastation they have caused countries in the Global South. That means, for a start, providing far greater climate adaptation financing to low-income countries and plugging the […]
A new international definition, endorsed by the UN, would leave some Canadian communities off the list 鈥 if the definition had any legal standing The good folks of Kelowna believe they live in a city. In fact, local tourism boosters bill the place as 鈥渢he largest city in British Columbia鈥檚 Okanagan Valley.鈥 But under a […]
By Prof Justin Podur The original New Deal has credited with saving the US economy from the Great Depression and, perhaps, saving the country from socialism. The original New Deal, and its champion, Franklin D. Roosevelt, are credited with saving the US economy from the Great Depression - and聽perhaps聽preventing the country from adopting 'socialism'. The […]
Climate change is not the problem. It is merely the most dramatic symptom of a major challenge that humanity is reluctant to acknowledge: We use more goods and services from nature than ecosystems can sustainably renew. More precisely, we use as much as if we lived on 1.74 Earths, according to the latest edition of […]
Project Investigator: Mark Winfield. Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant. Term: 2021-2023. The proposed project will build on and expand the research, Canadian and international partnerships and networks, and knowledge mobilization infrastructure in the area of sustainable energy transitions and climate change policy. The major outputs of the project will include two books: 1) an edited volume […]
Under pressure from municipalities and groups concerned about the climate crisis, the operator of Ontario鈥檚 electricity system is looking at what phasing out the province鈥檚 gas plants could look like. Ontario intends to rely more on natural gas-fired plants for power over the next decade, a change that is set to erase climate progress made […]