Media

Select Articles: The following links are only a partial list. For more references to Tom Rand in the media, please Google Tom RandPlanet Traveler, or VCi Green Funds.

Profiles/Q&A with Tom:

  1. Driven MagazineisCleaner
  2. CBC’s Metro Morning
  3. Central Valley Times
  4. University of Toronto Magazine
  5. Westjet inflight
  6. The Province
  7. Walletpop
  8. Smartblogs
  9. cbc.ca on Gulf oil spill

Planet Traveler: 

  1. High Tech Hotelier - Globe and Mail
  2. Clean Green Hospitality Machine - Globe and Mail
  3. Toronto Star
  4. Metro news
  5. Yonge Street Media
  6. Green Hostelling: It’s not Rocket Science - Globe and Mail

Green Bonds:

  1. Toronto Star, cbc.ca
  2. Corporate Knights Part I and Part II

Op-Eds:

  1. Would you Spend a Trillion Bucks to Save the Earth? - Canadian Business Magazine
  2. Enhanced Geothermal Could Answer Energy Question - Reuters
  3. Series of op-eds on The Mark News
  4. Enhanced Geothermal: Clean Energy’s Holy Grail in North American Clean Energy
  5. Glenn Beck as Commie Stooge - multiple
  6. Catastrophe of Climate Change Skepticism -multiple
  7. Old Jobs are Dead, Long Live the New Jobs - multiple
  8. Bring back the CANDU - Globe and Mail
  9. Reducing the risk of Climate Catastrphe - Globe and Mail
  10. Dearth of New Ideas at UNEP-FI - Reuters
  11. Kick Preface - Globe and Mail

Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit: 

  1. Huffington Post
  2. Montreal Gazette

 

Select Videos

CBC’s Power & Politics w/ Evan Solomon:

  1. Debating Bjorn Lomborg (starts at 1:15)

Planet Traveler:

  1. Tom’s TEDxTO Talk,
  2. Green Build Video,
  3. Best Practices Talk @ MaRS

TVO’s The Agenda:

  1. Samsung Deal
  2. Equinox Summit – Energy 2030

Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit:

  1. The Trailer
  2. Canadian Book Launch @ MaRS (74 min)
  3. interview @ MaRS

BNN (Business News Network):

  1. Economics of Kicking the Habit (April/10)
  2. Phase out coal discussion (June/10)
  3. Debate with Economides Part 1Part 2(July/10)
  4. Planet Traveler Opening (Oct/10)
  5. Debate with Bjorn Lomborg (July/11)
  6. Talking Geothermal (July/11)

E3 Roundtable

  1. Taking on a Skeptic (part 1)
  2. Offering Solutions (part 2) 

Miscellaneous:

  1. Mini-Debate w/Lomborg

Interview on rDigitalLife

What do Francis Bacon, take-out pizza, World of Warcraft, reset buttons, climate change and Lego have in common? Watch below to find out, or click here for original rDigitalLife piece by Ramona Pringle …  

Shocking WSJ Lapse: Mistake?

When a respected bastion of hard-headed journalism like the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) publishes a piece urging climate quietism – don’t worry, be happy! – it’s worth taking a harder look. Unlike web sites like WattsUpWithThat, or Murdoch’s other mouthpiece … Continue reading

The Marfa Dialogues: Blog 1. Art & Climate

Cape Farewell brings together artists and climate scientists. The hope is to affect the zeitgeist of our times, to somehow engender in the broader public consciousness an awareness of how urgent the climate crisis has become. Scientists haven’t been able … Continue reading

Kick Interview

A Video of Tom Rand being interviewed about his first book, “Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Technologies to Save Our World” by MaRS. More Continue reading