All for Corporate Knights!!! (Jenny Duong)

It was definitely great to see someone so young and so dedicated to saving our future. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Toby Heaps give his lecture, and sharing his proposal of a possible solution for minimizing carbon emissions. Although i found it strange to see a guest speaker in roller blades, it was inspiring. I found it depressing however, when Toby said "coral reefs will be extinct in 25 years, no matter what we do or change now." If that, and along with all the indication that we are ruining our home, does not go through to the world i don't know what will.

During the lecture I heard Toby mentioning that he was against the method of using solar energy to heat water,while creating energy from the steam, and he is also against nuclear energy as replacements for burning coal. And so my question for Toby was "What type of renewable energy are you a fan of?"

Toby's answer was:

Solar thermal.
- great for places like China, who receives a lot of sun
- abundant amounts of reflective material
- major source of energy in 20 years
- can cover 20% of our energy consumption

Loves Wind energy
- not the one in Toronto that does not move
- can cover 23-50% of our energy consumption
- difficult to achieve over 25% of our energy consumption
- popular in Europe

Geothermal
- can satisfy huge buildings for cooling and heating
- shortage of people with skills and knowledge of how to create a geothermal system
- Expensive
- the technology works and makes sense
- can cover 80% of heating and cooling satisfactions

Another question that I never got a chance to ask Toby was "Will this proposal (carbon charge) minimize waste?"
I'm not too sure of the answer but I'm assuming the answer is yes over time, after the carbon charge has been in effect. We may start conserving waste in order to conserve energy for waste removal.

Jen