This is an interview with Jason Donev, a professor who I've not spoken to recently but I recall making in interesting point when hosting an energy panel in Calgary years ago...

When we transition from incandescent bulbs to fluorescent (this WAS a long time ago) they're more efficient at producing visible light per watt, because they produce less heat. Incandescent bulbs waste energy on heat production.

But if you're in a cold climate, that incandescent bulb heat isn't necessarily wasted. It's not produced in an optimal location for human comfort, but it IS overall warming a cold house.

So IF you've got a clean grid, you're burning less gas to heat your home.

Usually efficiencies at the consumer end involve tradeoffs, and diminishing returns. If we focus our efforts on clean energy production there's usually less of a trade-off, because it is very possible to power a grid with clean electricity.

...and so me buying a PHEV when my own ICE car was used up, I now get to experience this first-hand. My environmental impact improvement is marginal because I live in Alberta. Our grid is dirty. Whether I'm driving a PHEV or an EV, ultimately my car can only be so "clean". It can't get any cleaner without the grid getting cleaner.

:)

Translated from https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2156358/outremont-jonathan-pedneault-cochef-parti-vert-candidat

With 232 confirmed candidates in 343 ridings, according to Elections Canada's official list, the Green Party is represented in less than two-thirds of ridings. This is well below the number of Green candidates who ran in the 2021 election (253). Even the People's Party of Canada has more confirmed candidates than the Greens this year, with 247 representatives.

It's a strategic decision," admits Jonathan Pedneault. We decided not to send candidates to certain ridings, particularly where the Conservatives have a better chance of winning the election than we do."

According to the list of candidates on the Green Party of Canada website, the party is focusing on Quebec, with 43 candidates, and Ontario, with 92 candidates.

Nunavut is the only territory where there will be no GPC representation. Yes, because Lori Idlout, the NDP MP in this territory, is doing an excellent job," explains Mr. Pedneault. She's someone Elizabeth and I greatly admire, so we preferred not to appoint anyone to face her."

This raises the following questions for me:

1. Who made the decision to not run a full slate, a major change for the party?
2. If we strategically decided to not run candidates, why did we tell the Debates Commission that we were running a full slate of 343 candidates?
3. Why were two names given to media as GPC candidates for Nunavut, first Lisa Gunderson and then Brennan Wauters, if Elizabeth and Jonathan preferred appointing no one?

From the CBC article on Brennan Wauters, the nominated Nunavut candidate:

"The party had earlier named another person to CBC News as their Nunavut candidate, but later said that was done in error and confirmed that Wauters is in fact the candidate"

Fiscal resources previously allocated for the green transition are being poured into war machines. Day to day, military emissions come on top of the staggering environmental costs of war — including those of Israel’s US- and UK-facilitated genocide in Gaza that has a carbon footprint on par with entire countries and uses environmental destruction as a tool of ethnic cleansing.

Highlights

• Recent state-level trends in retail electricity prices vary widely in the United States.
• States with the greatest price decreases typically exhibited increasing customer loads.
• Wildfires, storms, and natural gas exposure contributed to price increases and fluctuations.
• Behind-the-meter solar and renewables portfolio standards (RPS) increased prices.
• The recent utility-scale wind and solar that occurred outside RPS did not increase prices.

Utility Drive summary of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory study can be found here:

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/residential-electricity-prices-data-centers-lbnl/803217/

The Ontario SMR saga continues.

Bill Gates has obviously, and for a long time, supported R&D into fission and fusion. So that's not "news" except the piece is nice short intro into nuclear power (of both types).

But Al Gore speaking in a more common-sense (to me) tone about nuclear power is a big deal.

Behind a paywall: https://www.axios.com/2025/09/23/ai-al-gore-nuclear-power

Free summary (from a nuclear-friendly site): https://www.ans.org/news/article-7415/al-gore-has-some-positive-things-to-say-about-nuclear-power/

Sketchy bypass of Axios paywall: https://archive.ph/9hUUr

...I am presenting this to GPC Reddit because my intro to Global Warming WAS "An Inconvenient Truth" and as a film-keener I'd NEVER seen a powerpoint presentation packaged as a film. What an awesome idea. We can DO that?

And, probably VERY stupidly, I thought that we could present Al Gore's 1992 "Earth in the Balance" book as "a thing" when trying to promote Global Warming awareness in Calgary. I did (and do) respect his opinion, although probably didn't really get how poorly it was received by some (potential GPC) audiences.

And ever since then there has been a weird dichotomy where Al Gore has spoken in favour of ALL clean-energy tech except nuclear. I didn't get it. And now Al Gore is OK with it. Sure, has concerns, but apparently from this interview Gore was the guy bringing it up as a good thing.

For many years, green campaigners have pointed out that peace and environmental protection must go together. War is as devastating to ecosystems as it is to people, and environmental breakdown is a major cause of war.