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Re: ‘Brazil’s Balancing Act’ Just opened the latest issue of the magazine and was surprised to find a photo of Lisbon’s Belém Tower in reference to COP30 in Belém, Brazil. Mistakes happen, but Belém Tower is a World Heritage Site and not an “unfamous” building, so I’m surprised this mistake was not caught. —Paul DF CK: Thanks for your note, Paul. Several readers have alerted us to this significant and regrettable error. There is no excuse to be given, just a pledge to double down on our fact-checking of every inch of the magazine, because we understand that our credibility depends on it. Re: ‘In Search of Abundance,’ fall 2025 I have read the issue “In Search of Abundance” and noticed an interesting omission; namely, a mention of the carrying…
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centres of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”—Robert F. Kennedy Since I was a teenager, this has been my favourite quote. It hits home with the message that everything we do matters, and that, like the butterfly effect, you never know what mighty waves will rise from tiny ripples. My second favourite quote served as the unofficial slogan for RFK’s 1968 run for president, borrowed from George Bernard Shaw: “Some men see things as they are and ask, ‘Why?’…
On November 27, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney signed a memorandum of understanding with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to try to get a pipeline built from the oil sands to the coast of British Columbia. The “grand bargain,” as Smith dubbed it, introduces two sets of promises: Ottawa commits to-opening every door it can to pump heavy diluted bitumen to tidewater, so long as a private backer and Indigenous partners get on board; and oil companies will spend billions to reduce upstream greenhouse gas emissions and earn their barrels the moniker “low carbon” – something climate experts say is little more than a pipe dream. One year earlier almost to the day, then-UN Special Envoy on Climate Action Mark Carney gave the keynote address at the Sustainable Finance Forum in…
Imagine this: you’re in the shower, you reach for a new bottle of shampoo and you crack it open, just like a soft drink. The idea occurred to Nick Paget, cofounder and chief innovation officer at Meadow, a packaging technology company headquartered in Stockholm. While he couldn’t quite imagine a consumer going for that kind of a shampoo container, he was on to something. The result is the Kapsul technology – a new but familiar user experience that turns the ubiquitous aluminum can into a vessel for household products, such as shampoo or cleaning sprays, that is used along with a dispenser. “It’s still can enough where people put it in the recycling, but it’s not can enough where people think it’s a beverage,” Paget says. The aluminum beverage can…
It was an announcement steeped in promise for a world hungry for clean energy. When U.S.-based Air Products and Chemicals revealed plans four years ago for a massive “blue” hydrogen project in Edmonton, officials readied their enthusiasm. The plant is designed to use Alberta natural gas to produce hydrogen, a cleanburning fuel that is used in refining and could replace oil and gas in a range of applications, including transportation and electricity. Air Products says the plant will capture some 95% of the carbon dioxide it emits and sequester the greenhouse gases in saline aquifer formations deep underground. In short, it was touted as a model for carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology that proponents say can dramatically reduce carbon emissions in the oil and gas sector, as well as…
Since taking office, Donald Trump and his officials have conducted a swift and ruthless campaign to cancel U.S. climate policy and replace it with a patronage system tailor-made for the fossil fuel industry. These measures run the gamut, from billions in cancelled wind contracts to new coal subsidies, vast drilling licences for oil and gas companies, and so on. Scarcely a week passes without another handout to add to the pile. Most of this work has involved undermining anything that promotes renewables and electric vehicles or puts regulatory constraints on large emitters. But the Trump regime has also surreptitiously opened up a somewhat unexpected front in its denialist war: the International Energy Agency’s annual modelling exercise, widely seen as the definitive prognosis for long-term power demand and its impact on…
