Companies in oil-rich Canada are leading the way to a greener future
Are you ready for the clean energy boom?
Like a gathering tsunami, a flood of capital is bursting into the clean energy sector, nearly all of it destined to support photovoltaic (solar) and aeolian (wind) power generation, and the battery storage capacity needed to conserve their output.
For much of the past decade, China has been the undisputed leader in sustainable energy production, even as it continues to build and rely on coal-fired electricity for its basic needs.
Yet in the last five years, nearly every major energy…
We owe him our thanks, not our scorn
“I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for all of this,” said the billionaire space returnee Jeff Bezos, beaming beneath a cowboy hat.
Appearing triumphant, and perhaps a tad invincible, after his $5.5 billion flight touched the edge of space, Bezos was shockingly frank. “Seriously, for every Amazon customer out there and every Amazon employee, thank you from the bottom of my heart very much. It’s very appreciated.”
Yet this moment of brutal honesty, this quick primer on how Capitalism works, brought tut-tut reproaches from the guardians of public decorum and political…
Cedar Creek Winery, British Columbia
All felt right with the world as I stepped from the air conditioning at this lovely winery’s celebrated restaurant, hardly caring that the air felt like a dry sauna gone wild.
It was our first family meal in an actual restaurant in 16 months. A lovely coda to mark the waning of the Covid-19 pandemic; a holiday break in the alluring Okanagan Valley, fulfilling my nonagenarian father’s long-held wish to pick cherries and eat them directly from the tree.
While the family waited in comfort, I stepped into our rented 4x4, pushed the Start button…
June 18, 2021
On every Canada Day, I have worn Red as the colour of Celebration.
This year, I will wear Orange on the 1st of July.
Orange. The colour of Reflection and Remembrance, as we cope with long-buried Truth.
And I hope you will feel able to join me.
Officially, Orange Shirt Day is September 30 of this year, the first time that the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation officially becomes a statutory holiday.
Orange is the colour of Reconciliation in Canada.
Reconciliation with our country’s past.
Reconciliation, as a necessary foundation for our common future.
As I…
The Communist Party of China marks its centennial in July. In this dispatch compiled from travels before the pandemic, Satya Brata Das reflects on the country it shaped. A longer version appears in the book Us (Sextant, 2019).
Shanghai
In the wildly fashionable district of Xintiandi, the aromas and tastes are far more evocative of Paris or Barcelona than any classical face of China the imagination may evoke. …
Satya Brata Das
Father, grandfather, volunteer. Journalist (editorialist, columnist) in 20th century, strategy guru and author (four books) in 21st. Global citizen, polyglot.
