The good news is we have most of the technological solutions for transitioning to low-carbon sources of energy. The biggest challenges to adopting them more widely and rapidly are social and political — from funding and investment, to international cooperation, to inspiring mass support for ambitious policies.
Dave Holmes was 88 years old at the time of his passing. He graduated at the top of his class in forest engineering in 1948, winning scholarships that enabled him to attend the Yale School of...
Lewis Howard Green was one of the originals in the Geological Survey of Canada in the “Golden Age of Geology.” Lewis was born in Vancouver in August 1925, and died peacefully in Vancouver on November...
Cal passed away on April 29, 2015. He was born in Winnipeg on September 16, 1923. Cal proudly served as an officer in the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve in WWII. Graduating from UBC as a...
Morley was born in Vancouver on March 11, 1930, at Vancouver General Hospital, where he died on June 28, 2015. He went to Lord Tennyson Elementary and Kitsilano High, where he skipped two grades.
George Charles Shaw, born April 20, 1926, in Winnipeg, died June 18, 2014, of complications from kidney stones, at his home in Halifax. His two daughters, Andrea and Cathy, son Matthew, and family,...
Hugh Alexander Daubeny was born in Nanaimo on December 6, 1931, and passed away in Vancouver on January 2, 2015. He will be missed by his wife, Marian; children, Peter, Jennifer (Dave) and Carolyn...
On Monday, March 30, 2015, Norman, aged 93 years, formerly of Vancouver, Calgary, Portland and Zurich, Switzerland, died peacefully at Noble’s Hospital in Douglas on the Isle of Man, where he had...