C3 News Digest - February 23, 2011Cool pick of the week: Automotive engineers are working feverishly to make vehicles as fuel efficient as possible. The solution is to do more with less.
Here at home, Edmonton has ambitious plans for a huge green development in the city centre. Calgary is meeting its water efficiency targets, but residents could be doing more to cut their water use, a city report says. With their green operations, two Calgary breweries bring new meaning to drinking responsibly. Ontario's reversal on supporting offshore wind energy has drawn the ire of renewable energy companies.
In climate change news, melting permafrost will release greenhouse gases equal to half the emissions of the entire industrial age, a new study suggests. Scientists are discovering that a warming Arctic is bringing an invasion of southern wildlife. Extreme weather can increasingly be linked to climate change, two new studies indicate. Climate change could put trillions of investment dollars at risk over the next two decades, a new study warns. And could dam-building beavers be an important tool in reducing the impacts of climate change?
In the automotive world, a big leap in technology is needed before most consumers would be willing to buy an electric vehicle, a new survey indicates. Fortunately, Detroit is finally getting serious about compact, gasoline-powered cars, this writer says. But China is sticking with plans to produce a million electric vehicles a year by 2015. |
