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Monday, December 26, 2011

The Enviro Boys Finale

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It has been two years and eleven months of blogging for Enviro Boys. This blogging experience, to which Chris FM called a “blogospheric expe...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

What is water's dollar value to the Canadian economy?

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Image credit:  http://blue-economy.ca/ The question above was partially answered by a research project called the Blue Economy Initiative ...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Traffic congestion in the GTHA

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We all know that traffic congestion is a mounting problem for the Greater Toronto Area. Alas, the traffic woes are not confined to the GTA b...
Saturday, December 10, 2011

The return of the e-waste discussion

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Image credit: veracitystew.com It has been a while since Enviro Boys has written about the topic of e-waste, or waste management more gene...
Sunday, December 4, 2011

Carbon emissions on the rise: a time for adaptation?

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The NY Times reports that: "Global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil-fuel burning jumped by the largest amount on record last ...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Water auctions and participatory water management

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An excellent article by Abraham Abhishek on innovative ways to improve water management. Some highlights from the post: "The Umatill...
Thursday, November 24, 2011

Public Perceptions on Water Issues in British Columbia

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For the past two months I have been blogging for the Adaptation to Climate Change Team out of Simon Fraser University (SFU). As part of my i...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Edward Glaeser interviewed with The Economist

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This 10 minute video is an interview with Edward Glaeser , Professor of Economics at Harvard about his book "Triumph of th...

Canada's leadership on the environment: dwindling or non-existent?

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Among many of the articles I have read of late, along with hearing from prominent Canadian scientists and environmentalists, the state of Ca...
Sunday, November 20, 2011

Juliet Schor on the politics of consumption

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Juliet Schor's E. F. Schumacher Lecture from New Economics Institute on Vimeo . Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston ...

Is local food production inefficient?

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Freaknomics blog author Steve Sexton writes: "implicit in the argument that local farming is better for the environment than industr...
Sunday, November 13, 2011

Green lifestyle choices won’t solve the climate problem

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Check out this article  by Gar Lipow on why individual choices to be green may not help in the long run. He argues that sustainability is a ...
Monday, November 7, 2011

The Gated City by Ryan Avent

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For you urbanites out there, check out this podcast  with Ryan Avent, author of The Gated City . Avent's central thesis is that cities...
Sunday, November 6, 2011

Keystone XL Pipeline and its discontents

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From the New York Times' Green blog : "Thousands turned out on Sunday at the White House for a protest against the proposed Keyst...
Saturday, November 5, 2011

Bicycle friendly cities

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The Copenhagen Index for the World's most bike-friendly cities has been released  for 2011. Here is a bit context about the index: Im...
Friday, November 4, 2011

David Suzuki on moving forward

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Last night, I had the pleasure of hearing David Suzuki speak at a public lecture at UBC. I heard Dr. Suzuki speak four years ago at Trent w...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Ontario's leadership in Water Conservation

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For the past month I have been blogging for the Adaptation to Climate Change Team out of Simon Fraser University (SFU). As part of my intern...
Saturday, October 29, 2011

Cap and trade in California

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A recent article by James Tansey from the Tyee reports that: "The ARB (California Air Resources Board) voted unanimously on Friday t...
Friday, October 28, 2011

Localizing climate change to move forward

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This article  by Anna Fahey summarizes how talking about climate impacts on “socially distant groups” (and probably vulnerable species like ...
Sunday, October 23, 2011

Bill Rees on the disconnect between economics and ecology

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In my first year as an undergraduate student, I took a course called Environmental Science 101. It was a fascinating and comprehensive ove...
Saturday, October 22, 2011

A Green Leader we miss: David Miller

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Despite the critiques of David Miller's mayorship of Toronto, he is and will certainly be remembered as a leader in the environmental an...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Josh Farley on the Ecological Economy

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Joshua Farley is Professor of Community Development & Applied Economics and Public Administration at the University of Vermont. He is...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

The Business Case for Public Transit

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Chris and I have blogged a fair bit about transportation  issues through Enviro Boys. However, rarely have we discussed the business case fo...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

FLOW Tour: Saskatchewan update

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As part of my internship with the Adaptation to Climate Change Team, I will be blogging about updates and stories from the FLOW cross-Canada...
Thursday, October 6, 2011

Climate Change Adaptation and Water Governance report

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In May 2011, I started an internship with the Adaptation to Climate Change Team (ACT) out of SFU. One of my job responsibilities was to revi...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Roads vs. transit in the U.S.

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The Infrastructurist provides a thoughtful discussion of federal funding for roads versus funding for transit in the United States. ...
Sunday, October 2, 2011

Evaluating the merits of small wind turbines

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A recent NY times article reports that there has been a rise of small wind turbines in the U.S. and Britain: "In a report to be rele...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

The Economic Impacts of Climate Change for Canada

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From the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRT): "Climate change could be expensive for Canada. Unless global ...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

NOx standards on new vehicles in LA

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In the summer I listened to an EconTalk podcast with Prof. Robert Frank of Cornell University. The podcast can be listened to here . Consid...
Thursday, September 22, 2011

An Integrated Planning Approach to Climate Change Adaptation

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I will be presenting my research at the Eighth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability in J...
Sunday, September 18, 2011

U.S. partisan divide over the causes of global warming

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Stories in 2011 concering the debate about what causes global warming are always supremely entertaining for me. Check out this story from th...
Saturday, September 17, 2011

An introduction to ecological economics

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I am taking a course this term with Professor Bill Rees . Bill Rees is renowned for co-creating the Ecological Footprint concept back in th...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

A great article on financially sustainable mass transit systems

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David Levinson is Professor of Transportation Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He blogs at The Transportationist . Check out his ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Links on climate change adaptation

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Multidisciplinary team led by Indiana University professor Elinor Ostrom to conduct research on impact of climate change, capacity for adapt...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Tim Jackson on prosperity without growth

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Jackson says "prosperity consists in our ability to flourish as human beings within the ecological limits of a finite planet"....
Monday, September 12, 2011

Private cities in the developing world

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The idea sounds completely absurd but private cities are ostensibly taking off in many developing countries. Marginal Revolution tells the s...

The transit funding discussion continues in Metro Vancouver

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A recent article in the Globe and Mail titled " Transit advocates launch campaign for property-tax hike " adds to the hitherto hig...
Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Coping with a drought in Central Texas

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This article from the NY Times tells a story of how Llano, Texas is coping with a water drought. "Government has always had a hard ti...
Monday, September 5, 2011

A radical SuperFreakonomics story has come to fruition

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A year ago, I blogged about a famous book called "SuperFreakonomics" by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner (read my review here ). O...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

A less enthusiastic take on HSR in China

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Image Credit: The Globe and Mail (August 12, 2011) We have blogged about high speed rail (HSR) several times before, particularly focusin...
Monday, August 29, 2011

Is the G.O.P. Anti-Science?

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In a recent Op-Ed in the NY Times' , columnist Paul Krugman argues that the Grand Old Party (GOP for short and the nickname for the Repu...
Friday, August 26, 2011

A Case of Baptists and bootleggers?

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From the Environmental Economics blog : "A major environmental group has teamed up with a conservative think tank and others to urge ...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

$20 million for water research in Southern Ontario

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A couple of days ago, the University of Toronto announced that the Southern Ontario Water Consortium (composed of many diverse groups and i...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

U.S. widlife preserves, bike lakes, cheap gasoline and fuel subsidies

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Check out the following links: 1. Emerald Cities from the NY Times. 2. Bike Lanes Benefit Drivers. 3. Gas Is Cheaper, but We’re Still ...
Thursday, August 18, 2011

Using RCTs for Water Research

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RCTs refer to Randomized Control Trials , a powerful statistical tool that has been used by the medical profession for quite some time . I a...
Friday, August 12, 2011

Short video on NYC's water supply system

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The YouTube video above provides a short (but comprehensive) overview of NYC's water supply system; where it comes from, how it's ...
Monday, August 8, 2011

Two links to check out

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Edward Glaeser on the " The death of distance and the rise of cities ". In this audio lecture, Glaeser discusses regional policy a...

Flood zones and homeowner behaviour

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This article from the NY Times presents a story of a community in South Dakota that is prone to flooding. Of course, residents and develope...
Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Revival of Urban Agriculture

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My good friend, Marc Schutzbank, recently published an article titled " revival of urban agriculture ". His article provides a ver...
Sunday, July 31, 2011

The Suburbanization of Phoenix

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Thanks to the Urban Demographics blog for sharing this interactive map of Chandler, a suburb of Phoenix. The images below are taken from NA...