Trudeau Town Hall at U of Winnipeg
Jan 26, 2017 – CBC News –
On Thursday afternoon, Prime Minister Trudeau will respond to questions from the public in a town hall at the University of Winnipeg downtown campus.
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‘An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power’ opens at Sundance Film Festival
Jan 20, 2017 – Variety –
Ten years after ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ Al Gore brings the news on climate change again in a doc that’s anything but hot air.
+Expanding Tar Sands will kill Paris targets and climate stability, report finds
Jan 19, 2017 – TheTyee –
Pipeline approvals ‘make the goals impossible to reach,’ finds Oil Change International.
+Manitoba businesses race to reduce energy use
Jan 18, 2017 – Winnipeg Metro –
The Manitoba Race to Reduce is underway as those who operate some of the largest commercial office spaces in Manitoba compete to save at least 10 percent of their energy use in the next four years.
+2016 Officially Declared Hottest Year on Record
Jan 18, 2017 – Climate Central –
2016 was the hottest year in 137 years of record keeping and the third year in a row to take the number one slot, a mark of how much the world has warmed over the last century because of human activities, U.S. government scientists announced Wednesday.
+Cities unite to seek ‘record breaking’ electric fleet
Jan 10, 2017 – E&E News –
Four of the largest West Coast cities are asking automakers whether they can produce “a potentially record-breaking order” of 24,000 electric vehicles. “The hope is that by next month there could be additional cities in the request that hopefully brings the demand for EVs to 50,000 or perhaps even 100,000.”
+Math Myth – Who “pays their own way”, bike and transit riders or motorists?
Jan 3, 2017 – Winnipeg Metro –
Many of the biggest fear-based myths that get raised in city-building conversation are shown to be untrue when you apply cold hard counting to the conversation.
+Record number of oil and gas firms go bust as renewable energy revolution begins to bite
Jan 3, 2017 – The Independent –
The world’s largest private power production company warns the sector that renewables could drive the oil price as low as $10 a barrel
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