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John Lorinc

    EV battery
    Spring 2022/Transportation

    Meet the recycling start-up hustling to keep EV batteries out of landfills

    by John Lorinc

    Just four years after launching a pilot plant in Canada, Li-Cycle has raised US$500 million from high profile investors to build out

    How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
    Energy

    How to wean your house off natural gas (it’s complicated)

    by John Lorinc

    A practical guide to swapping your furnace (and A/C) for a heat pump

    NYC decarbonize buildings
    Built Environment

    What happened when NYC started naming and shaming buildings for bloated footprints

    by John Lorinc

    The city has pushed more landlords to decarbonize their buildings, but nearly half are still scoring Ds and Fs in its letter

    flood insurance
    Climate Crisis/Winter 2022

    Is it time for a ‘planned retreat’ from building near flood plains?

    by John Lorinc

    Many municipalities have not updated flood maps created in the 1970s in fear that revisions could expose them to liability for damages

    green buildings
    Built Environment

    Five future-friendly ways sustainable design can help the planet in 2022

    by John Lorinc

    From microgrids to smarter land-use planning rules, here are the trends to watch

    renewable natural gas
    Energy

    Is Big Gas finally learning to love biogas?

    by John Lorinc

    Unlike the EU, only a tiny fragment of Canada’s methane from rotting food, manure and farm waste becomes marketable as renewable natural

    Energy/Fall 2021

    Putting out the fire: How to cleanly heat a cold country that’s hooked on natural gas

    by John Lorinc

    Thousands of kilometres of natural gas lines spidering under big city streets could soon become stranded assets

    Greener roads
    Built Environment/Summer 2021

    Paved with good intentions

    by John Lorinc

    Everything from sewage to cigarette butts can be used for paving – so why isn’t Canada revved about greener roads?

    Climate Crisis

    The case for carbon budgets on the road to net-zero

    by John Lorinc

    New IEA report calls for end of all fossil fuel production, a come-to-Jesus moment for Canada’s oil and gas industry. Canada needs

    Built Environment/Spring 2021

    Glass buildings have been singled out as climate disasters. Can they be reformed?

    by John Lorinc

    Tightening building standards could mean it’s curtain call for glass towers. Some innovators say otherwise.

    Built Environment/Winter 2021

    Pipe dreams and other climate visions

    by John Lorinc

    Capturing the billions of dollars of heat that goes down drains globally is one climate fix touted in David Miller’s new book

    Built Environment/Fall 2020

    The push to pump fresh air into schools

    by John Lorinc

    Indoor air quality was always low on priority, but COVID-19 presents an important opportunity to build healthier schools

    low-carbon buildings
    Built Environment/Summer 2020

    The blind spot of low-carbon buildings

    by John Lorinc

    About a year ago, Canadian-born architect Kelly Alvarez Doran had an epiphany – or perhaps, more aptly, a wake-up call – about

    green housing
    Built Environment/Spring 2020

    The case for funding more affordable green housing

    by John Lorinc

    In an urban landscape punctuated by glass condos and gleaming offices, the four city-owned parcels that have bobbed to the surface of

    Built Environment

    Sealing the deal: The case for cladding leaky old highrises

    by John Lorinc

    When Toronto council recently upgraded its climate change plan, one of its 2050 goals was cutting emissions by 40% for every building.

    Built Environment/Climate Crisis

    Out-of-the-box thinking spawns low-carbon construction revolution

    by John Lorinc

    Architects and contractors working in the far north, where the building season is short and the risk of water damage to building

    Built Environment/Climate Crisis

    Five planet-saving building ideas we need to nail down in 2020

    by John Lorinc

    After years of inaction on climate change, the decade ahead has become the bracket in which humanity gets one last opportunity to

    Built Environment/Climate Crisis

    Oil Town building carbon neutral community powered by 100% renewables

    by John Lorinc

    Given that Swedish eco-activist Greta Thunberg has shone a harsh light on air travel, there’s a certain cosmic elegance in the City

    Built Environment

    Powerhouse building produces more energy than it needs

    by John Lorinc

    Last year, the City of Vancouver updated its green buildings regulations to require that all re-zoning applications meet either net zero or

    Climate Crisis

    How one gas company CEO is fuelling Canada’s climate politics

    by John Lorinc

    Beyond the tight-knit world of Calgary’s oil patch executives and a redoubt of Ottawa-based conservative activists, few Canadians had heard of the

    Built Environment/Climate Crisis

    York’s “bioclimatic” business school building is breath of fresh of air

    by John Lorinc

    When visitors enter the new Schulich School of Business building at York University in Toronto, many immediately pick up on two features

    Built Environment/Climate Crisis

    How drones are heat mapping high-rise energy guzzlers

    by John Lorinc

    It’s a fact of high-rise life that’s become all too familiar to legions of urban condo dwellers: many apartment buildings leak like

    Built Environment

    Building innovation: Going green pays off for one of Canada’s Big 5 banks

    by John Lorinc

    In the expanding world of energy-efficient commercial buildings, designer projects with LEED certification and cutting-edge architecture tend to win the awards and

    Built Environment/Spring 2019

    Smart buildings: how AI is slashing heating and cooling bills

    by John Lorinc

    In the nerdy world of smart thermometers, every self-respecting tech geek knows precisely how easy it is to undermine the intelligence wired

    Winter 2019

    The Canadian artists creating a better world

    by John Lorinc

    In the mid-2000s, with gravel quarry operators moving aggressively to carve huge aggregate mines out of southern Ontario’s limestone moraines, folk singer

    Climate Crisis/Fall 2018

    Race to the stars

    by John Lorinc

    Going back to his childhood, Stephane Germain, the founder of Montreal-based GHGSat, dreamed of figuring out how to pursue a career that

    Clean Tech/Health & Lifestyle/Leadership/Summer 2018/Transportation/Workplace

    Off to work

    by John Lorinc

    When Québec’s financial services giant Desjardins decided to adopt a sustainability plan earlier in this decade, company officials began looking at a

    Built Environment/Climate Crisis/Energy/Spring 2018

    Breaking the gas habit

    by John Lorinc

    According to federal government data, fully two-thirds of all the energy Canadians use to heat their homes is supplied by natural gas

    Clean Tech/Climate Crisis/Energy/Leadership/Transportation/Winter 2018

    The e-bus revolution has arrived

    by John Lorinc

    Early in the fall of 2017, a dozen municipalities from around the world resoundingly signalled that the long-awaited electric bus revolution had

    Built Environment/Fall 2016

    Pricing property

    by John Lorinc

    The craziness of Vancouver’s real estate market, now the subject of frantic political attention, has revealed a rare kind of metric in

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