Call for papers: The 4th Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2015)

The 4th Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2015), organized by The Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) and ten of its member societies,  is a forum for Canadian and International participants to exchange ideas on emerging techniques and technologies for the mitigation of, and adaptation to, the impacts of climate change. If you have a technology…

Can fracking be cleaned up?

  I would like to believe that one day we won’t need hydrocarbons but until that day comes a  new analysis by the US International Energy Agency says technologies exist—or are in development—that could largely address these concerns.  The biggest challenge is that companies are simply not following the instructions that came with the technology–what…

Simple technology solutions always have the biggest impact

This unique image, captured by motion-sensitive cameras, offers an extraordinary glimpse of an animal that many Canadians have never seen. A Canada lynx uses the Redearth Creek wildlife overpass to cross the Trans-Canada Highway in Banff National Park at 8:34 a.m. on March 28, 2012. Since 1996, over 200,000 animals, including grizzlies, wolves and cougars,…