Calgary Co-Operative Association Ltd.’s executives weren’t all that concerned this spring when the federal government revealed its plan to ban shopping bags and other single-use plastics. The grocery chain — which runs dozens of supermarkets, liquor stores, cannabis shops, and
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Several global industries, including chemical manufacturing, aviation, and marine shipping continue to contribute significantly to global carbon emissions. Shipping, for instance, contributes 3% to annual global emissions and along with these other industries remains hard to “defossilize”. But a recent
A long-term issue for the airline industry is the need to tackle their fossil emissions, which contribute to >2% of global emissions. How do we get this industry to net zero, and is it even possible? The conventional “tube and wing”
The University of Toronto Solar Fuels Group published their first two papers on the production of solar fuels by gas-phase heterogeneous CO2 photocatalysis in the inaugural 2014 issue of Advanced Science.1,2 The work was featured on the front cover. Since
Are nuclear energy and natural gas sustainable investments? The EU’s decision to label natural gas and nuclear energy as “sustainable investments” is a nuanced issue. In January 2022, before the destabilizing conflict in Europe, projects such as the Nord Stream
Researchers Athan Tountas, Prof. Geoffrey Ozin, and Prof. Mohini Sain have recently published their design for a continuous reactor for renewable methanol in Green Chemistry (DOI) Abstract A renewable pathway to carbon net-neutral or net-negative feedstocks such as methanol is
Ford Motor Company’s Powertrain Engineering Research and Development Centre (PERDC) is nestled just across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario, with operations being led for more than two decades by manager and technical leader Jimi Tjong. In this role, Jimi
