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NEW! This winter, Carl joins Vanessa Vander Valk on CBC Radio’s Shift NB every second Monday to help everyone learn how they can save energy, money and our environment. The conversations will cover some big issues, but we’ll always drill down to impacts on each of us, and what we can do.

Shift NB Segment 1: Peak Power

January 19, 2026: a discussion of peak power: what it is, why it matters to each of us and what each of us can do to reduce the strain on our grid and minimize the risk of blackouts.

Shift NB Segment 2: How to read and understand your power bill

February 2, 2026: a discussion of how the best measure of power consumption is not dollars, but kilowatt-hours per day (which you can find on your bill or calculate); and what you can do once you know that number

Shift NB Segment 3: What you can learn from your utility's online dashboard, thanks to smart meters

February 17, 2026: how you can use the detailed power consumption information on your utility’s new smart meter-fed dashboard to make some changes and save! Plus setting up alerts, and using power meters to learn more about what consumes how much power.

Shift NB Segment 4: Time of Day Rates

March 2, 2026: what are Time of Day (or Time of Use) power rates; how they work and why adopting them can be a win for both utilities and anyone who uses power

The Great Canadian EV Road Trip:
Carl's interview on CBC Radio’s What On Earth

In the summer of 2025, Carl and his family set out on the great Canadian EV road trip: they travelled from Fredericton to Victoria and back, a total distance of 16,000 KM. Carl shared highlights of the trip – the successes, the challenges and the savings – in an interview on CBC Radio’s What On Earth in July.

Jimmy Saves The World

Comedy can be a great way to build awareness and change behaviours! Here’s what happened when comedian Jimmy MacKinley dropped by to learn about climate change and sustainability for Episode One of his new series, Jimmy Saves the World!

Media Coverage of Carl's First Solar Open House

October 2022: What better way to learn about the benefits of solar energy than to see an actual operating system? Here’s some coverage when Carl hosted his first solar open house!

Carl shares his journey to sustainability in this video prepared when he was recognized by Rotary International in 2023 with a Paul Harris Fellowship, the organization’s highest honour for community service.

DISRUPTION – the term we use to describe sudden upheaval and drastic change – was the theme of TEDx UNB 2018. In his TED Talk, Carl suggests we need to challenge and disrupt two long-held paradigms of global human society if we are to disrupt that biggest disruption of all, climate change.

In 2016, 24 HOURS OF REALITY, Al Gore’s annual marathon global climate change awareness webcast, featured climate change presenters from all around the world – and Carl was selected to represent Canada. Here’s that interview, from New York.

Commentary on Global Warming
Aired nationally on CBC Radio May 23, 2001

In Carl’s words:

“When I was young, my first school was located next to a factory that blanketed our playground with so much smoke that some days we weren’t allowed to go outside for recess. It sowed within me the early seeds of concern about our environment. When my first son Paul was born in 1999, a little voice in my head said, “Do something!” But I had no idea what to do. The little voice got louder in 2001, when Eric was born: “DO SOMETHING!” So I decided to write this pledge, from a new father to his son. It aired a quarter century ago, but still seems relevant today.”

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