Current Issues
Why The Oil Sands Won’t Save Canada
With world oil resources depleting, it is often heard that “Canada will be OK!” because we have the oil sands, a 165 billion barrel ($13 trillion @ $80/bbl1) resource that will look after Canadian requirements for over a century.
A Proposal to Resuscitate Canada’s Ailing Healthcare System
Sizing up our healthcare system
Provincial healthcare systems in Canada are our most cherished public services and they are failing so many of us. People will say we have a great system and at times that is true, but overall it isn’t.
Economics for Students
Students enrolled in courses from international relations to environment to engineering are confronted with a mountain of detail in their pursuit of higher education and finding a means of establishing a clear perspective is challenging. Large complex systems abound in our economic, social and environmental world. We need to be able to understand the structure of these systems and to be able to quantify, or represent mathematically, how they work.
Economics for Economists
Although few economists might operate a business, they are nevertheless familiar with the concepts behind the well-honed financial tools used to measure and monitor the health and operation of a commercial enterprise. These monetary tools have been developed over many centuries to illuminate the inner workings of an entity whose sole purpose is to take in more money than it expends.
Economics for Business Owners and Accountants
As someone who operates a business, you are very familiar with the well-honed financial tools you use to measure and monitor its health and operation. These monetary tools have been developed over many centuries to illuminate the inner workings of an entity whose sole purpose is to take in more money than it expends.
Economics for Scientists
Most scientists have by now taken note of the fact that commercial economics has not been offering any solutions to the numerous biophysical problems which are stacking up at humanity’s door.
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- Canada’s Unlimited Farmland
- The EROI of Fusion
- Urban Sprawl And Density Nightmare
- Bill Rees Footprint and Farmland Loss
- CBC Stonewalls on Growth
- How much oil remains for the world to produce? Comparing assessment methods, and separating fact from fiction
- Canada needs a genuinely green party
- Hello World of 8 Billion!
- Pivoting From Growth to Progress: The Many Steps Necessary to Transform Our Institutions and Energy System into Socially Cohesive Sustainable Society
- Money Won’t Solve the Energy Problem
- George Monbiot is an Environmental Disaster
- Small Can Still Be Beautiful
- One Concerned Citizen’s Submission to their Municipality’s Growth Review Process.
- A Bud of Truth Peeps through a Crack in the Corporate Media Stonewall
- Why Food Prices are High - Inflation II
- Why Gas Prices are High - Inflation I
- Canadian Population Milestone
- Canada’s 2030 Climate Strategy: The Farce Continues
- Our wellbeing, or a healthy GDP?
