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Marco Kollimeier, Managing Director of HOLON poses in the doorway of the HOLON at the HOLON booth during the CES tech show on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Pollution-sucking houseplant featured at CES tech innovation show

The mottled bright green leaves of a pothos plant stood out against the flashy expanse of electric vehicles and smart products at the CES tech show in Las Vegas this year. This particular version of the familiar houseplant was bioengineered to remove 30 times the amount of indoor air pollutants of a typical house plant, according to Neoplants, the Paris-based company that created it.

By Brittany Peterson | News | January 9th 2023

Farmers Lyndsey and Chris Moore at Ontario's Arnprior Solar Project where they graze hundreds of sheep. Photo submitted by: Ontario Soil Network

Doubting farmers, here is proof solar panels and sheep get along just fine

The Arnprior Solar Project is one of the largest solar electricity sites in Canada, and for the past five years, it has also doubled as a summer home for hundreds of sheep.

By Pippa Norman | News, Climate Solutions Reporting | December 29th 2022

This aerial photo shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, north of Tokyo, on March 17, 2022. Photo by: The Canadian Press/AP/Shohei Miyano

Japan does about face and goes all in on nuclear

Under the new policy, Japan will maximize the use of existing reactors by restarting as many of them as possible and prolonging the operating life of aging ones beyond a 60-year limit. The government also pledged to develop next-generation reactors.

By Mari Yamaguchi | News | December 22nd 2022

A view of the control room during a tour of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station on April 17, 2019. Ontario's electricity grid operator plans to add more nuclear power to its energy mix by 2050. File photo by Carlos Osorio / Canada's National Observer

Ontario can ditch natural gas power by 2050 — but it’ll come with a $400B price tag: grid operator

Decarbonizing Ontario’s electricity system is going to cost about $400 billion over the next two and a half decades and require a “no regrets” kind of attitude to get there, according to the province’s grid operator.

By Dani Penaloza | News | December 16th 2022

President Joe Biden meets with French President Emmanuel Macron in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, during a State Visit. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Differences in climate law persist between U.S. and Europe

President Joe Biden on Thursday, December 1, 2022, tried to allay concerns raised by French President Emmanuel Macron about a clean energy law that benefits electric vehicles and other products made in North America. But the U.S. and Europe remain divided over the landmark law.

By Matthew Daly | News, US News, Politics | December 2nd 2022

Utilities are delaying the grid renewal required to electrify everything

Inaction on grid renewal is a dangerous combination of denial and delay, which ultimately results in infrastructure not being in place when wide-scale electrification begins to grow exponentially.

Opinion

Negotiating survival

By Rob Miller | Opinion | November 16th 2022

An fisherman cooking a rice on his Boat as a power plant emits smoke in the background on Thursday, March 27, 2008 in Jakarta, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyah, File)

By Natasha Bulowski | News, Energy, Ottawa Insider | November 10th 2022

Shana Southwind talks with SevenGen delegates at the 2022 SevenGen Indigenous Youth Energy Summit in Whitecap Dakota First Nation in Saskatchewan. From left: Amber Clark, Shana and Sarah Hanson. Photo by Marmar Photography

Shana Southwind taps into the power of Indigenous youth for the clean energy transition

This 24-year-old student works at SevenGen, providing mentoring, funding, skill and capacity-building to teams of emerging young Indigenous energy transition leaders.

Opinion