This is the second of a two-part feature examining the impact of climate change on the Arctic. Part I examined the uses of the colonial imagination of the Arctic. 
Many of the winter months of 2012 were among the warmest on record. The warmin…

Why Jacques Cousteau had a boat instead of a Paris Métro pass

Healing the Earth Radio was produced in Guelph, Ontario, on CFRU 93.3 fm, from 2005 to 2010. Healing the Earth also had a popular podcast on the Rabble Podcast Network. Since the end of the show, producer Matt Soltys has been working on a book that is …

UPDATE: Today’s Barrie Examiner has another letter from Nestlé’s John Challinor who accuses me of publishing false statements in a poorly-researched column. Yet he doesn’t actually demonstrate any errors, all he does is put forward some irrelevant com…

Unfortunately, no silly wig was used

As a long-time environmental lawyer who has watched, and, in some cases, played a role in the development of Canada’s environmental laws, I am devastated at the cynical, manipulative, and undemocratic way the Harper Conservatives are weakening or destr…

May 5, 2012 was Climate Impacts Day, a global initiative to “connect the dots” between the extreme weather events that are becoming a regular occurrence in many parts of the world, and climate change. Sponsored by 350.org, the global organization found…

The New York Times announces that the game is over for climate. NASA scientist James Hansen’s op-ed is a startling indictment both of Alberta’s mostly foreign-owned tar sands and Obama’s laissez-faire attitude towards Canada’s exploitation of the sands. In the president’s words, Harper and the oil juggernauts will do what it takes to expand "regardless of what we do."

It’s a sobering

IF anyone else wants to hear what open, transparent parliamentary democracy sounds like, the MP4 file is here: is.gd/35VNrS #hw— kady o'malley (@kady) May 10, 2012 If you download the 25MB audio file that is over an hour long, all but the first 4 minutes are relaxing music. Why? The Conservatives immediately put the committee [...]

The RCMP has been spying on a group of British Columbia First Nations whose vocal opposition to Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline has taken them to the company’s annual shareholders meeting in Toronto, according to documents obtained through an acce…

Kudzu was spotted near Leamington, Ont.; while the BC ministry of agriculture is keeping a lookout.
Kudzu had invaded the United Stat…7 Zoom(s)

Elizabeth May has compiled a breakdown of every change to environmental regulations contained in…

What does “extending habitability” mean? It explains “sustainability”. I prefer to sometimes call it “survivability”, because without the delicate balance our ecosystem and societies are teetering on, there’s no possible way seven billion people will survive even a short term major disruption. Our environment has one shot to work in letting billions of humans develop [...]

Transportation Minister Blair Lekstrom is bringing in new legislation to crack down on fare evaders, allowing collection agencies to go after people who don’t buy tickets. If Lekstrom really wants to deal with fare evasion, then he needs to realize why people don’t pay the transit fares. If people can’t afford to buy a transit [...]

OTTAWA – Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, MP Saanich-Gulf Islands, today listed and explained the dangerous and damaging impacts that Bill C-38, the Budget Implementation Bill, will have on Canadians’ environment, health, and jobs.
“As more and …

Shawn McCarthy delves into the environmental regulation amendments.
Ministers will have new discretion to…

Shareholder meetings can be routine, unless you are Bank of America, in which case it may be declared an “extraordinary event.” That is what the city of Charlotte, N.C., called the bank’s shareholder meeting this week. Bank of America is currently the …

Considering amounts extracted from taxpayers for BC Ferries brilliant management team, imagine the tab if they’d been competent and successful.

David Hahn departed to enjoy one of the most costly pensions ever given a public servant in British Columbi…

Considering amounts extracted from taxpayers for BC Ferries brilliant management team, imagine the tab if they’d been competent and successful. David Hahn departed to enjoy one of the most costly pensions ever given a public servant in British Co…

The Europeans have always been in the lead when it comes to adopting the kind of green technology that includes the latest wind farm t…10 Zoom(s)