In the medical profession we have reference standards for things like blood cholesterol level, triglyseride, blood pressure, and heart rate that define what is normal or acceptable and allow us identify extreme values that may […]
Al Reynolds presented a new and innovative schme for Rural Land Stewardship (RLS) that challenges the traditional paradigms of regulation (e.g. zoning) or land acquisition (e.g. Nature Conservancy) by incentivizing the protection of the habitat […]
For over half the nearly 300 people in the audience at the fourth Geodesign Summit in Redlands this was their first Summit. So there was a serious effort by several speakers including the MC Tom […]
The Mid-Atantic Solar Energy Industries Association (MSEIA) and the Pennsylvania Solar Energy Industries Association (PASEIA) recently commissioned Clean Power Research to do a study released as The Value of Distributed Solar Electric Generation to New […]
Under current legislation, Québec must reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. The new government is expected at the very least to respect that goal or even increase […]
Power plants are covered by federal regulations related to air quality, water quality and solid waste. In the area of air quality in 2011 EPA issued a rule that places federal limits on hazardous air […]
Project Vasari is a simplified design tool for creating conceptual building designs with integrated analysis for energy and carbon. One of its big differentiators from products like Sketchup is that it is intended to fit […]
Every year about 150 billion litres of untreated sewage are dumped into Canadian surface waters. In 2010 I blogged about then Environment Minister JIm Prentice releasing a draft of proposed municipal wastewater systems effluent regulations, […]