Graham Harris
A Visualization of Alberta's GHG Emissions since 1990
What an animated "bar chart race" of Alberta's GHG emissions from 1990-2018 reveals.
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Graham Harris
May 5, 20203 min read
Change is in the air... here come heavy-equipment EVs!
In last month’s blog post I talked about the Climate Lens assessment framework for Canadian infrastructure projects. One of the...
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Graham Harris
Apr 10, 20203 min read
Viewing the world through a “Climate Lens”: Canada’s ICIP grant funding.
We are living through a time of rapid climate change. As with any system or organism exposed to a changing environment, we need to adapt...
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Graham Harris
Mar 26, 20201 min read
Our 2019 carbon footprint and reduction plan
Firefly is proud to announce the publication of our 2019 greenhouse gas inventory and action plan. The full inventory can be downloaded...
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Graham Harris
Mar 2, 20202 min read
Has my improved attic insulation actually reduced my carbon footprint? (A follow-up)
Last June I posted a blog about getting my attic insulation upgraded. You can read the full blog post here, but as a quick reminder, I...
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Graham Harris
Feb 4, 20201 min read
A disappearing light?
This morning’s papers featured some rather unfortunate news for our namesake insect, the firefly. As we talked about in a previous post,...
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Graham Harris
Dec 6, 20192 min read
Changes in ISO 14064-2:2019 for GHG Reduction Projects. What's new?
For the last in our three-part series looking at the changes to the new version of ISO 14064, we’re looking at part 2 – GHG projects (you...
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Graham Harris
Nov 19, 20192 min read
What’s new in ISO 14064-1:2018? Updates to version 2 of the GHG standard for inventories.
The international standard for GHG inventories – ISO 14064-1 – was updated almost one year ago, in December 2018. With the end of the...
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Graham Harris
Oct 18, 20192 min read
When is zero not zero? Or, why you need to understand 'net zero'.
While working on a municipal GHG inventory recently, I got into an illuminating discussion with my client about the meaning of the term...
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Graham Harris
Sep 4, 20192 min read
What is the global carbon budget?
We are all familiar with the concept of a budget when it comes to our household finances or government spending. A nice, simple...
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Graham Harris
Jul 30, 20192 min read
Yes, even in Alberta, an electric car makes good environmental sense.
Everyone knows that Alberta has a “dirty” electricity grid. So, in our province, an electric car can’t actually make good environmental...
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Graham Harris
Jul 3, 20192 min read
What’s new in ISO 14064-3:2019? Updates to version 2 of the GHG validation & verification standard.
At the end of June, I had the pleasure of teaching the CSA’s ISO 14064-3 course on ‘Greenhouse Gas Validation and Verification” to a...
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Graham Harris
Jun 11, 20193 min read
Has my improved attic insulation actually reduced my carbon footprint?
You may be thinking about upgrading the energy efficiency of your building – your home or office, for example – to be more comfortable,...
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Graham Harris
May 10, 20191 min read
What's our carbon footprint?
It's important to Firefly that we "walk the talk". In fact, it's one of our core values. This means we strive to be the change that we...
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Graham Harris
Apr 16, 20192 min read
What is a "Global Warming Potential"? Part 2 of 2.
In my last blog post, I introduced the concept of Global Warming Potentials (GWPs) and how they are used to equate releases of different...
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Graham Harris
Mar 26, 20192 min read
What is a "Global Warming Potential"? Part 1 of 2.
There are many different greenhouse gases (for a primer on what a greenhouse gas is, see my earlier post), some of which last longer in...
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Graham Harris
Mar 1, 20192 min read
The world's most efficient light.
Fireflies are an amazing insect. There are thousands of species of them - none of which are actually flies (they are beetles) and none...
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Graham Harris
Jan 28, 20193 min read
What is a greenhouse gas? Or, why climate change and bread have more in common than you think.
I don’t like to make assumptions. While climate change has received a lot of media attention over the last couple of decades, I still...
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