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Author Archives: Duncan Noble
We Tweet at Their Pleasure
Being suspended from Twitter might be a mixed blessing: it lays bare your dependency on a social media platform that enforces its rules with Kafkaesque abandon and forces you to rethink your relationship with a digital platform that exercises absolute … Continue reading
Climate Policy Engagement: Does Your Carbon Handprint Reduce or Increase Your Carbon Footprint?
We spend a lot of effort understanding and trying to reduce our carbon footprint. That’s great. But it’s also important to understand and optimize our carbon handprint, sometimes defined as the impact (positive or negative) we have on other’s carbon … Continue reading
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Beyond Compromise to Stretch Collaboration
In The Best Way to Combat Climate Change is Compromise, Chris Turner makes some great points that most thoughtful climate activists would agree with. Yes, it will take decades to make the transition to clean renewable energy. And no one … Continue reading
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Can Canada Build New Pipelines and Meet Our Climate Targets?
Originally published by Environmental Defence This is a guest post by Kevin Brady and Duncan Noble, co-authors of The Climate Test: Aligning Energy Project Assessment with Climate Policy Kevin Brady is a sustainability consultant, author and educator. … Continue reading
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Planting Seeds So Something Bigger Might Emerge
This is a re-blog of a really great interview with Kevin Anderson. It covers the Paris Climate Agreement, why most of us should hardly ever fly, and how change can happen in complex systems. Highly recommended reading! The Paris Agreement … Continue reading
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Want Change? Include People, Process and Tools
In my 30+ years of working in and with many organizations, I have seen many attempts to change the way people do things. Some are successful, some fail. Systems thinking can give us insights on how to make change initiatives … Continue reading
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Queen’s University Should Divest from Fossil Fuels
The Advisory Committee on Divestment of Fossil Fuels at Queen’s University asked for submissions concerning if the university should divest its pooled endowment fund and pooled investment fund from companies engaged in fossil fuel extraction and distribution. I offered the following … Continue reading
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A Tale of Two Headlines: When is Switching to an Electric Car a Good Thing?
Imagine two headlines for a story about electric cars: Switching to an electric car isn’t always good for the environment Switching to an electric car would reduce carbon emissions for over 80% of Canadians CBC radio recently ran a story … Continue reading
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New Report Downplays Climate Impact of Energy East: Assumes Oil by Rail Alternative
A new assessment of the climate impact of the proposed Energy East pipeline is significantly lower than the previous assessment, mainly because it assumes the oil would be extracted and shipped by rail if the pipeline is not built. The … Continue reading
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Letter to Ontario Energy Board Opposing Energy East Pipeline
18 October 2014 Ontario Energy Board P.O. Box 2319 Toronto, ON, M4P 1E4 Re: Proposed Energy East Pipeline I am writing to express my deep concern about the proposed Energy East Pipeline and to recommend that you do not approve … Continue reading
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Duncan Noble 