Innovation Toronto

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When I met with Jim Rogers one day this spring, he tossed back two double espressos in a single hour. A charming and natty 60-year-old, Rogers is the chief executive of the electric company Duke Energy. But he has none of the macho, cowboy stolidity you might expect in an energy C.E.O. [...]

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A book about global warming has won this year’s Royal Society prize for popular science writing.
Mark Lynas‘ Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet has already been turned into a TV programme and is now almost certain to experience a jump in sales. The book explains how Earth will change for [...]

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The other day I went to a meeting to hear Harrison Ford talk about saving the rain forests and ended up listening to a man who has a rain forest to save: Guyana’s president, Bharrat Jagdeo.
The occasion was the announcement of a new campaign to protect the world’s rain forests, Guyana’s included, [...]

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Research has cast new doubt on the wisdom of using Sun-blocking sulphate particles to cool the planet.
Sulphate injections are one of several “geo-engineering” solutions to climate change being discussed by scientists.
But data published in Science journal suggests the strategy would lead to drastic thinning of the ozone layer.
This would delay the recovery [...]