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This is a guest post authored by John Abraham, cross-posted with permission from the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media.

A recent …

Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media.png This is a guest post authored by John Abraham, cross-posted with permission from the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media. A recent posting on The Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Medi…

Assorted content for your long weekend reading. – While some of us may recognize that there’s little reason to lend much credence to the talking points spewed out by any Con spokespuppet, others have tried to give the benefit of the doubt as long…

Assorted content for your long weekend reading.- While some of us may recognize that there’s little reason to lend much credence to the talking points spewed out by any Con spokespuppet, others have tried to give the benefit of the doubt as long as pos…

Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading.- Lana Payne tears into the Cons for being interested solely in developing a junk labour market where both work safety and income security are sorely lacking. And Chris Selley offers his own rebuttal to t…

Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading. – Lana Payne tears into the Cons for being interested solely in developing a junk labour market where both work safety and income security are sorely lacking. And Chris Selley offers his own rebuttal to …

The Spring of Sustainability is a three-month series of events that allows callers to interact directly with world-class visionaries by phone or webcast, for free.  Since the end of March, this amazing series has brought visionaries like Vandana Shiva…

school-bus.jpg This is a guest post by Juanita Constible, Science and Solutions Director of The Climate Reality Project, cross-posted with permission. As a scientist, I know how important it is for our kids to get a top-notch science education…

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This is a guest post by Juanita Constible, Science and Solutions Director of The Climate Reality Project, cross-posted with permission.

As a scientist, I know how important…

Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Andrew Jackson raises an absolutely devastating point to refute anybody trying to use “it’s all about growth!!!” as an excuse for slashing social supports and handing free money to the rich:In this age…

Starting around 9:30pm last night, the House of Commons spent four hours considering the…

Before throwing the Foreign Affairs Minister under the bus yesterday afternoon, Peter Kent actually…

Guest blogger: Shawn P. ConroyEnergy prices have been continuing to rise North America. And yet, in some countries like Germany electricity bills have been falling. Countries like China are increasing their wind generating capacity by almost incredible…

It’s true we’re on the wrong track, but we’re compensating for this short-coming by accelerating. – Stanislav Lec
In an article entitled Game over for the climate published in the New York Times last week, climatologist James Hansen, directo…

Without amendment or correction, John Baird’s warning that a carbon tax would kill your…

Monday, May 14, 2012 West Coast Environmental Law applauds two of Vancouver’s elected bodies – Vancouver City Council and the Vancouver Parks Board – for passing resolutions to take a formal position on the proposed Kinder Morgan o…

It’s a gorgeous sunny May day, and I’m busy building my “hugelkultur” raised garden bed at the edge of the conifer forest which covers some of our one and a quarter acres of Canadian Shield land. A hugelkultur bed is a raised ga…

This week, federal Environment Commissioner Scott Vaughan released a disheartening report, slamming the Harper government for having no plan to meet its own 2020 greenhouse gas emission reduction targets (targets that are already completely inadequate)…

Found on Facebook today: * Get your MOM the BEST present ever for mother’s day… steward your soil, nurture nature, compost your waste, remediate local contamination, share with the innocent and the needy, teach virtues, coordinate with your…

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.  ~Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul * Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers I know, especially my own mom, …