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Pre-empting the energy shockwave
The inevitable long-term rise of energy prices poses a serious risk to corporate profitability. A Deloitte study, released at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2009, showed that even modest 3.5 per cent year-over-year increases in energy and resource input costs could wipe out the profitability of a vast number of North American firms.
To [...]
Occupy Davos?
There’s the published agenda for the World Economic Forum (WEF) this week in Davos — and then there are the elephants in the room.
“Severe income disparity” is the most likely risk facing business and political leaders according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risk 2012 Report. This finding really caught me by surprise. So while [...]
Billions of kWhrs can be saved with motor efficiency on escalators
My latest column in the National Post this past Friday (July 3) focused on the billions of kilowatt hours than can be saved by improving the efficiency of escalators — with litlle or no investement.
Read the column at http://bit.ly/5Be86o
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LED Retrofit Revolution Signalled by Sears $4.5M Lighting Project
My latest column in Green Building and Sustainable Strategies (Spring 2012) is focused on the plan Sears implemented, as well as the astounding savings they have received, it truly is a plan more stores and companies must take on.
Please find my column at http://bit.ly/JCjDb8 pg 32
IdeaCity: Canada’s TED equivalent: 2 tix 50% off
Do you like watching TED talks? Like listening to cutting edge ideas? Well the Canadian equivalent of TED is ideaCity.
This year it’s June 13, 14, 15 in Toronto: 50 speakers, 3 amazing parties & fascinating participants.
I have two half priced tickets. Every year a group of us by 12 tickets a year in [...]
Let’s Call it What it is: Election Fraud
The widening “robocall scandal” is deeply disturbing — as is its media coverage.
The language we use to describe a situation, the words that a journalist uses in their coverage of an issue, literally frame the issue and how we think about it.
This isn’t a story about “dirty tricks,” it’s about election fraud. This isn’t “stupid,” [...]
Technology
Amazon’s Kindle Fire Tablet Market Share
My latest column for Backbone Magazine (Apr 24) is now out, it focuses on the monopoly on e-readers that Amazon has, as well as the head-spinning speed in which the e-reader market is changing the landscape in how we buy books.
Read the column at http://bit.ly/IqPZzT
Smartphones and Tablets are killing other devices
Tablet PCs and smartphone sales are growing exponentially year over year and, as they incorporate more and better functionality into their core operations, other consumer electronic categories are in decline. The Apple iPad exploded on the scene in 2010, selling 15 million units. Sales grew 222 per cent in 2011, to 56.5 million units (estimate). [...]
How Skeptics v Realists view Global Warming
Here is a great graphic from Think Progress Green from an article by Brad Johnson “AMS Certified Meteorologist Mark Johnson Claims ‘Earth Hasn’t Warmed In 15 Years’ “. It shows how the skeptics make deliberate misinterpretations of temperature data. The graphic can be seen originally at Skeptical Science: Going Down the Up Escalator, Part 1. [...]
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