Guy Dauncey’s Big Solutions: Negotiators at COP15 in Montreal agreed to protect biodiversity in our oceans. Where do governments begin?
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Six ways to end Canada’s affordable housing crisis
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Guy Dauncey’s Big Solutions: Let’s end exclusive zoning, empower non-profit developers, and use the right balance of carrots and sticks to make housing affordable
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Six ways to produce rapid affordable housing
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Guy Dauncey’s Big Solutions: Solving Canada’s housing crisis will take time. So, what can governments do to lessen the burden for those suffering now? Click here to read the full story
Seven ways to end the climate crisis
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Guy Dauncey’s Big Solutions: We need all hands on deck to solve humanity’s greatest crisis. Click here to read the full story.
Seven ways to reduce economic inequality
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Guy Dauncey’s Big Solutions: A high level of inequality weakens public trust, causes resentment and threatens democracy. How can we reduce it? Click here for the full story.
Seven ways to include nature in our economic choices
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Guy Dauncey’s Big Solutions: The COP15 biodiversity conference in Montreal has ambitious goals. Here’s how we could embed these goals into our economies. Click here for the full story
A Green Economic Recovery for the Cowichan Valley
By Guy Dauncey
A green recovery! But wait – why green? At such a time of crisis, shouldn’t any kind of recovery be welcome?
The argument for a green recovery is that while the dangers from Covid are clear and immediate, lurking in the wings are other crises some of which hold just as much danger – the climate crisis, the biodiversity crisis, the affordable housing crisis, and the low-income debt crisis, which is placing people in miserable poverty.
If we continue to operate our economy the way we have for the past many years, here’s what will happen. We’ll lose much more of our forests. We’ll experience more flooding, as the winter rains pour off the forest clearcuts. We’ll lose more forest topsoil, as storms wash it away, turning the Salish Sea brown with mud. We’ll lose the beauty of the Cowichan Valley to tediously awful suburban sprawl. We’ll see steadily increasing rents and homelessness, with ever more people living in cars, vans and tents.
Continue reading A Green Economic Recovery for the Cowichan ValleyTo Dam, or Not to Dam? An Ode to the Peace River
To dam, or not to dam: that is the question,
whether tis nobler to suffer
the loss of farmland and First Nations rights by powerful flooding,
or, by solar, wind and conservation, geothermal too,
to craft another path to the energy we’ll need
and save the land for growing food and flowing water,
under the peaceful sky.
– Guy Dauncey, January 2018
Passing the Baton: The Clean Energy Economy is Ready
Can we live without the tar sands, the oil and gas pipelines, the oil tankers, the fracking and the coal-fired power? Can we live without our gas-heated homes and factories, and our oil-powered planes, ships, trucks, trains and automobiles?
They are all part of the fossil-fueled economy, and as such they are essential.
But they are also transitory. This too will pass, the court servants whisper to the fossil fuel Caesars as they power up their oil tankers, exploratory rigs and giant mechanical coal-mining shovels. Continue reading Passing the Baton: The Clean Energy Economy is Ready
The Practical Utopian 