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Last night, Dr. Werner Kurz, a researcher with the Canadian Forest Service and a lead author with the IPCC, gave a presentation to my forest management class at University of Victoria. His talk focused on climate change and it's impacts on the forests of Canada and British Columbia. During the presentation, he emphasized that much of the data used for the recently released 4th report of the IPCC is already quite dated and that new data, particularly concerning the collapse of the Arctic ice pack, is frightening, to say the least. And now this from the Antarctic. One wonders how much worse things must get before the nations of the world realize that the planet is a lifeboat on which all are dependent and that they must get very serious about reducing GHGs dramatically and quickly. This particularly includes Canada, and specifically Alberta, where the recovery of oil from the tar sands is creating an international embarrassment for those of us desperately trying to reduce our country's carbon-foot print.

[RS: Just came across this thought-provoking piece from Green Energy News. Lithium Ion batteries are seen as the next "big" breakthrough for hybrid and all electric vehicles.

and we've just got back from Globe 2008. It's billed as the world's largest conference and trade fair on the business of the environment.

As originally conceptualized, ekosTV was to be an independent environmental media channel; however, we quickly discovered that it was exceptionally difficult to build a sustainable business case

Over the past several months, the EKOS team has been exceptionally busy. Last Oct., we were awarded a significant grant from Natural Resources Canada to facilitate knowledge transfer between policymakers and scientists on the issue of adapting water infrastructure (reservoirs, dikes, wastewater treatment, etc.) to climate change. As part of this project, we've also embarked upon a redesign of the ekostv website principally to give greater prominence to this project and to the other projects we're engaged in.