Recreational cannabis will be sold online in Ontario when legalized this fall and in private retail stores across the province early next year, the government announced Monday, reversing the previous administration's plan to distribute cannabis through publicly owned outlets.

Climate change is a strangely divisive topic. While it is a scientific certainty, there are many who look for ways to avoid reality. While this might have been possible at one point, it's become far too late to ignore global warming.

Blockchain technologies have the potential to revolutionize the electricity marketplace, enabling peer-to-peer transactions that eliminate middlemen. Think solar rooftop owners who want to sell their excess power to neighbors, not utilities.

Companies are developing a crypto token that represents carbon credits to be traded on a blockchain ledger, creating a more efficient and transparent method for exchanging the valuable certificates tied to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

UK based machine learning start-up Verv executed the UK’s first physical energy trade on the blockchain in 2017. Now it’s partnering with Ocean Energy to develop its longer term goal, an energy information marketplace.

The bitcoin network currently uses as much electricity as Ireland and is set to consume 0.5 per cent of all the world’s electric energy by the end of this year, according to new calculations.

For all the buzz around wind, solar and electric cars, energy company executives had plenty to say Tuesday about the continuing role of fossil fuels and nuclear power at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Future of Energy Summit.

The genius mind behind the branding of the Peak Demand community belongs to none other than Chris Corridore.

BlackRock investment group, with $5 trillion in assets, is bullish on electric cars and renewables.

Oil supply could peak by 2020, causing a crisis.

It could be a breakthrough in verification, reaching far beyond self-interested audiences.

While on the surface it makes sense to do the right thing for our planet, it’s not making economic cents. So as waste piles up in various countries around the world, could blockchain be the answer?

Can Blockchain Power The Energy Business?

DUBAI: The government of the UAE has teamed up with Hollywood star Robert De Niro to raise awareness about the dangers of global climate change. The Climate Project is a two-year initiative to share knowledge on coping with climate change, and to promote what was called “finance-able” climate resilience projects in developing countries.

Vakhtang Gogokhia’s plan to extract cryptocurrencies from the netherworld of cyberspace relies on a strategy familiar to many old-school manufacturers who use a lot of energy -- the cheaper the fuel, the better.

He also has some insights into social welfare and the problems with the private sector. Whatever you might think of him, Bill Gat...

Less than a lifetime ago, humankind just barely left the limits of our Earth’s atmosphere. Who could have imagined that only 60 years later we would be touching the surface of the Sun, arriving at...

A Finnish research team has taken a step towards the future of food by developing a method for producing food from electricity.