Schools striving for some normalcy for year-end events
Published: 5/6/2021 4:17:54 PM
After last year’s anti-climatic graduation season, school officials are going to great lengths to organize end-of-year activities this spring that hopefully will capture, at least to a limited degree, the magic of those moments and define one of life’s biggest turning points.
Events like proms and graduations will be similar, but not the same. COVID is lifting, but it isn’t gone.
Using the federal and state guidelines as starting points Laconia and Gilford high schools have come up with plans that they feel strike the right balance between a celebration to remember at a time when restraint is still the watchword. Face masks and social distancing will be required.
Decarbonizing heavy vehicles and industry could take decades. That makes biofuel development crucial now.
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Frank Lemos manages regional operations at shipping firm Titan Freight Systems, but still dons a uniform sometimes to move a truck between terminals or train a driver. He calls climate change a big weight on everybody’s shoulder, but says fuel costs matter, too, because trucking is critical to the economy: You start messing with transportation in this world and it could get ugly really quick. (Leah Nash/InvestigateWest)
These days, Frank Lemos manages a shipping operation, but the former truck driver still gets behind the wheel occasionally to train new drivers or to fill a staffing hole. When he does, he notices a big difference. The firm recently moved away from conventional diesel fuel, and without it there’s something missing: the permeating petroleum smell that drivers wear after a day inside a big rig.
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Why Biofuels and Hydrogen Are Key to Our Zero Carbon Future
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Peter Fairley is an award-winning journalist based in Victoria and San Francisco, whose writing has appeared in Scientific American, NewScientist, Hakai Magazine, Technology Review, the Atlantic, Nature and elsewhere. SHARES The Parkland refinery in Burnaby is changing its diet. Designed to convert Canadian petroleum and bitumen into jet fuel, gasoline, diesel and other fuels, it meets BC’s clean fuel standard by increasingly blending in renewable feedstocks.
Photo via Alamy. [Editor’s note: This is the latest in a year-long occasional series of articles produced by InvestigateWest in partnership with The Tyee and other news organizations exploring what it will take to shift the Cascadia region to a zero-carbon economy, and is supported in part by the Fund for Investigativ