David Cameron the UK Prime Minister pledged to form the ‘greenest Government ever’ in 2010, when he came to power. It was a bold statement to make and we thought that we should see how he and his coalition Government has lived up to their promise. The UK like most [...]

Less than 2 years ago, a feed-in tariff scheme was launched in UK, allowing people to put excess electricity generated by their solar systems back to the grid for profit. This of course is a major factor when it comes to if solar is affordable or not, which has lead [...]

Immediately following Obama’s official thumbs down on TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline proposal, media, businesspeople, politicians and the public on both sides of the political coin began sounding off about the rights and wrongs and pros and cons of the decision. As a Greener Ideal reader I can take a swing [...]

Brazil is going to be home to a lot of world events over the next few years. Rio de Janeiro will host the 2016 Olympics during August, with the 2016 Summer Paralympics one month later. Earlier, 2013 will see Brazil host the Confederations Cup, run by FIFA (the International Federation of [...]

Twenty six countries including Canada, United States, Brazil, China and India are vehemently opposing the European Union’s unilateral move to impose aviation fuel fees on airliners flying over its air space in an attempt to curb carbon dioxide emissions. Canada has vowed to aggressively oppose this policy, stating that it [...]

Recently, during the Kyoto talks in Durban, China raised the need for developed countries to potentially fund $500 billion a year plus utilization of technology to developing nations, which I thought was very interesting and an excellent suggestion providing that the Chinese are among those who will do it and [...]

Whenever there is talk about carbon footprint, I always get a chuckle every time representatives from Canada and US start to finger China and India because we are the worst polluters per capita. China and India’s carbon foot print per capita is 1.84% and 1.06% respectively whereas Canada’s is 7.66% [...]

One headline stands out among others balking at Harper’s bold move pulling Canada out of the international Kyoto Protocol: “B.C. responds to Kyoto withdrawal with a shrug” (The Globe & Mail, Dec. 14) A shrug? Amidst all the clenched fists and raised neck veins coast to coast– this indifferent, non-vexed [...]

The 2nd International Forum on Sustainability taking place this year is going to have an all star celebrity line-up, featuring speeches from Richard Branson, Bill Clinton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and director James Cameron. The Forum is taking place beginning tomorrow, March 24 until March 26 in Manaus, Brazil. The 2nd International [...]

It’s no secret that Beijing, China and Delhi, India are host to some of the worst air quality in the world. Rising up the ranks to join these two cities now is Tehran, Iran, who in the past two weeks has shut its entire city down for three days because [...]