Another biennial international climate negotiation jamboree wraps up today.
What does the world have to show for it? Durban shouldn’t turn out to be the belly flop that Copenhagen was in 2009. Other than that, not much. See you in two years and all that.
Even a few greens are wondering if trekking to these multi-national climate [...]

Assorted content to end your week.- Jeffrey Simpson compliments the NDP’s leadership contenders for dealing with the issue of inequality, but rightly notes there’s a long way left to go:Good for the NDP leadership candidates for talking about income in…

In October, I blogged about my impressions of the BBC nature series “Planet Earth”. I loved the show, but criticized the producers for making it completely apolitical. There was not a single mention of habitat conservation, climate change or any human-…

Copenhagen. Cancun. Durban. Another year, another collective disappointment for people all over the world looking to the UN climate talks to produce the urgently needed international action addressing the emergency of climate change. (For updates as ne…

Thomas Mulcair tables a cap-and-trade proposal.
Mulcair’s plan goes further than the cap and…

If dumping megatonnes of extra carbon dioxide into earth’s atmosphere produces ethical tar sands oil, I suppose eco-friendly ethical cigarettes are plausible too.

Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co., a subsidiary of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, is advert…

Our Environment minister wants Kyoto to die and wait until 2015 to make a new accord. Why not just start a new accord now why wait three years? Our Environment minister is playing in the past were it would be just enough just to say…

Canada Green Party MP Elizabeth May spoke to the Minister of the
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There’s always lots of hope around these conventions. Generally, we hope to achieve a strong agreement to prevent the world from reaching dangerous warming. And most are happy to hope for something passable. However, the politics, bureaucracy, scienc…

Standing at my bus stop in Durban and for the first time since I got
here the bus doesn’t arrive promptly. Maybe logistics are winding down. Last
night was my first time finding a cab leaving the conference site. At 2 am the
buses were not running, but…

Today’s podcast brings you the voices of Karen Rooney and Matt Chisholm, two of the six young Canadians on the CYD who disrupted Minister Kent’s speech in plenary at COP17 on Wednesday. They explain the reasoning behind the protest and its significance…

Don Cherry has a lesson to teach Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.
Cherry has spent a career promoting the hockey fighter, sometimes known as the enforcer or goon. The problem is that the science of brain injuries has caught up with (and passed) his assertion th…

Dear Millennials of 2011:
 
“I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.”
- Rainer Maria RilkeFebruary 1903, Paris
This quote reminded me of our generation back in…

‘We are not about symbols. We are about real action.’

DURBAN – Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says the new
Joslyn oil sands mine should never have been approved.  “It is further proof that the
Harper government does not take climate or climate negotiations
seriously.  Why did the federa…

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We live in a country whose leaders appear willing sacrifice our collective future to appease the short-term needs of Big Oil.
Take, for example, Stephen Harper’s recent declaration that he wants the Enbridge pipeline to go ahead, despite the overwhelmi…

OTTAWA – Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada and Member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands, spoke today from Durban with several international Green parliamentarians to call for action on climate change. “Globally, parliamentarians…