Bright Lights in Clean Tech

In the race to harness green energy alternatives, Canada is decades behind other G20 nations. A look at some of the brightest lights in the clean-tech firmament, at home and abroad. Link

Chris Turner (Geography of Hope) and friends give Bay Street a glimpse of what’s possible in the Globe’s ROB. A glimpse of Turner’s bit:

… a whole new industrial economy …  has emerged primarily in those places where climate change has been acknowledged not just as a fundamental fact of life and the defining crisis of the 21st century but also as an opportunity-the fulcrum for a lever that will launch the second Industrial Revolution. Notwithstanding whatever muddled consensus may emerge from the high-minded climate talks in Copenhagen this December, the nations and companies leading this second wave will continue with installations and innovations at a breakneck pace. And they will do so because building this new generation of infrastructure is a smart business move, based on sound economics.

In Germany alone, the renewable energy industry has created more than a quarter of a million new jobs in the decade since the Bundestag passed the world’s most ambitious green-power legislation in 2000-this without introducing any new taxes and at a total cost to the average German household of about $50 per year.

Moon power, deep geothermal, solar thermal…Read all about it