Agriculture, Horticulture & ViticultureJackBoyle's Profile
Signed up January 5, 2009
Vancouver BC Canada
Jack Boyle runs the firm, Cooler Skies Company, which develops environmental projects, business strategies and initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by reducing fossil fuel energy consumption. Specializing in renewable energy projects, energy efficiency programs, carbon inventory management and offsetting, we help businesses reduce environmental impact.
Previously, Jack was president of Blue Sky Energy where he developed innovative landfill gas-to-energy projects, such as the Weber County Landfill Gas Project Ogden, Utah. This small biomass project provides 950 kw of electricity to the Utah power grid, and has turned 67 acres of abandoned landfill into a city park, producing over 32,000 metric tons of carbon offsets per year.
Jack studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Western Ontario and has more than 25 years experience in the energy business.
Jack is a member of the Algonquins of Greater Golden Lake (Ontario).
Areas of Interest
Renewable or alternative energy, bioenergy, carbon offseting & Offsetting projects, water quality issues, water resource management, biodiversity, ecosystem preservation, organic agriculture, sustainable fisheries, eating local, livable cities, fair tradeRecent Articles
The Story of Stuff
The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute; fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns, with a special focus on the United States. All the stuff in our lives, beginning from the extraction of the resources to make it, through its production, sale, use and disposal, affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this read more
Submitted: June 14, 2009 10:54:58am
in: Water Resources & Water Pollution, Waste (Solid) & Recycling, Oceans, Fisheries & Aquaculture, Law, Policy & Social Justice, Human Nature, Human Health & the Environment, Green Living/Sustainable Living, Forestry and Silviculture, Fair Trade & The Social Economy, Environmental/Social Documentaries, Energy, Climate Change & Your Carbon Footprint, Ecosystems, Wildlife & Biodiversity, Construction and Development, Air Pollution
Author: JackBoyle
Save the Flathead River Valley from Mountain-top Removal Coal Mining and Coal-bed Methane Drilling
The Flathead River Valley is threatened by plans for mountain-top removal coal mining and other mining and energy development. Currently the BC government is considering one proposal by Cline Mining Corp to demolish a scenic Flathead mountain and remove 40 million tonnes of coal. Pollutants and slag from this strip mining operation will be dumped into read more
Submitted: March 31, 2009 11:08:50am
in: Water Resources & Water Pollution, Ecosystems, Wildlife & Biodiversity, Air Pollution
Author: JackBoyle
Sustainable Seafood: Fish Story or Cautionary Tail?
Sustainable seafood is caught or farmed in a way that ensures the long-term health and stability of the species and its habitat or marine ecosystem.
The loss of marine biodiversity is mainly due to over-fishing and destruction of habitat. What can be done to prevent the world’s oceans from becoming a marine desert? It’s not too late: Depleted read more
Submitted: March 28, 2009 15:33:19pm
in: Oceans, Fisheries & Aquaculture, Green Living/Sustainable Living, Agriculture & Food
Author: JackBoyle
13 Easy Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint around the House
Compost organic waste (food scraps) with a garden composter or a worm composter (if you live in an apartment). Decomposing organic waste generates Methane via anaerobic decomposition in a landfill. If you use a composter/worm composter, it produces CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) as a waste product. Methane (CH4) is 21 times more damaging than CO2 to the read more
Submitted: January 16, 2009 20:19:58pm
in: Waste (Solid) & Recycling, Green Living/Sustainable Living, Energy, Climate Change & Your Carbon Footprint
Author: JackBoyle
Unscrambling the Label: What's in an Egg?
Certified Organic eggs are your best choice - The price premium goes for better treatment of domestic animals and sustainable farming. Look for the carton labelled “certified organic” and a certification mark and the name of the certification standard. The graphic of a contented hen with the sun rising over her shoulder, the words “natural”, read more
Submitted: January 9, 2009 14:42:14pm
in: Human Health & the Environment, Green Living/Sustainable Living, Agriculture & Food
Author: JackBoyle
What is Fair Trade
A Fair trade business should be able to demonstrate its commitment to fair trade by providing verifiable documentation to its customers. A general ‘rule of thumb’ for determining whether fair trade claims match their business practices is this: The more information that an organization can provide you the customer with on how they do business, the read more
Submitted: January 5, 2009 12:49:31pm
in: Law, Policy & Social Justice, Green Living/Sustainable Living, Fair Trade & The Social Economy, Agriculture & Food
Author: JackBoyle
Recent Comments
Two new GE-Free Zones declared in the Kootenay region!
by JackBoyle on January 19, 2009
Rating: 8/10
This is great! I wouldn't otherwise have known about the efforts of communities in BC that are ahead of the curve on fighting 'frankenfoods. read more...
Recent Product Reviews
Beef
by JackBoyle
on March 22, 2010 Rating: 10/10 read more...