In 2050 …. Overview 1

Updated on Wednesday, March 2, 2022 at 1:53PM by Administrator

In 2050, a 40-year-old named Sean and his young family live in a simple yet sustainable world in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada. Sean has a full time home-based job as a local all purpose repairman, a job that he thoroughly enjoys. Sean loves to build practical items for his own children and for neighbourhood children. He also has a creative outlet as a sculptor. In addition to being with his family, Sean also has time to observe, to meditate, and to read about recent and ancient history.

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Housing 2050

Last week in this column, George Klassen reminded us of something we all know: we are in the midst of a climate crisis and we will continue seeing manifestations of this crisis as we go along. A week before that, The Carillon introduced us to the newly appointed Economic Development Officer for Steinbach. The appointment of such a person implies planning. What kind of a city should we plan to be in 2030? 2050? Just bigger, or different? We tend to think that “the world will continue to move on as it has”, as demonstrated by the recent reveling in growth that we have seen in Steinbach, Niverville, Ste. Anne and other centres in Manitoba’s southeast. So what advice do we have for this newly appointed development worker?

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Dealing with the Climate Emergency

limate change and its effects have been studied and written about for at least 40 years. It is clear that human activity, especially the burning of fossil fuel, is directly responsible for climate change, which results in extreme weather events, drought, flooding, sea level rise and much more.

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Community Initiates Free Seed Library in Roseau River

As the winter wears on, many of us itch to start our garden plants and get our hands back in the soil. Unfortunately, job and supply chain disruptions over the past two growing seasons have made certain seeds harder to come by. Paper shortages have led to seed catalogue delays while an increasing interest in home gardening has caused the demand for some seed varieties to exceed the supply.

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Heating and Cooling your home with a Heat Pump

Electrical energy can be converted into heat, another form of energy. Latent energy in natural gas can be converted into heat through combustion. This is how we typically heat our homes. The electrical conversion is 100% because there is nowhere else where the heat can go, but gas furnaces vary in efficiency, but it’s less than 100%.

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