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I feel fortunate to have had many opportunities in my life to volunteer to help make a difference in the world. From welcoming refugees, volunteer mediation, interfaith dialogue and even the simple act of giving blood. Yet in the last year, I’ve found it difficult to find those opportunities as we celebrated International Volunteer Day […]

Good for these students for calling attention to McMaster University’s hypocrisy! Is there a better word to describe installing carbon spewing gas generators running up to 100 hours a year when the Ontario grid is 94% emissions free to potentially save on their own electricity bill. The worst part is the article describes how the

Our firm focuses on digging deeply into the performance of solar systems and faults that can emerge. We have a saying here that “defects are a jewel to be treasured”. What we mean by this is a defect properly investigated tells you a lot about improvements you might need to make to your processes and

Had been thinking about writing an article but have been busy. That was until this morning when what I thought was the start of a cold turned out to be something else. So after three years a tiny virus finally found me. I always was suspecting we weren’t going to win a war against it.

2022 has been a year of highs and lows for everyone and we hope you and those you love have been safe through this rollercoaster we call life. I write this as a major storm sweeps across the US and Canada and my sister and her husband attempt a journey from Ohio to join us

I don’t know about you, but I’m frustrated with the state of the world these days. We seem paralyzed and helpless when confronted with challenges like the war in Ukraine or climate change. We are too comfortable substituting talk for action or assuming someone else is solving these problems. The right side of the image

Ignored problems don’t go away; instead they grow over time. Surely climate change has taught us that. Yet we risk repeating our mistakes believing technology alone can save us in our rush to deploy zero-carbon solar power systems. Decarbonizing our electrical grid is key, yet electricity is invisible. Solar panels can perform their service silently

Municipalities have spent tens of millions of taxpayer money on solar power projects in the last decade as investments and to reduce carbon emissions. However, analysis indicates potentially millions are being lost and tons of additional carbon emitted due to maintenance issues. Shouldn’t municipal  candidates in Ontario’s election commit to sharing how taxpayer investments toward

8 reasons Niloofar Abbasvandi and I were delighted to have been chosen to participate in the Accelerator Centre‘s Studio Program.1) People like Stephanie Jenner! Even when she was having a really stressful day she still has a 100 watt smile to greet people!2) Great mentors like Kevin Hood, Kevin Elop, Ellyn Winters-Robinson APR, Melissa Durrell,

Happy 4th Canada Day Niloofar Abbasvandi. Hope it is as memorable as four years ago today that your plane touched down. Congratulations on receiving your PR this year and officially joining the Canadian family.Greetings to my fellow Canadians and fellow sojourners on this Blue Marble we call Earth.My birthday was this week and some of