Happy New Year! * It’s now official – 2014 was the hottest year on record for this blue planet of ours. * * This is the year that science and good climate policy will trump denial and fossil fool intransigence. I’m lucky to live in the largest Canadian province, Ontario,
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350 or bust: Peace
Christmas in the Trenches, written and performed by John McCutcheon, as Christians around the world contemplate the birth of the Prince of Peace, in a barn. “Each Christmas come since World War II’ve learned its lessons wellThat the ones who call the shots won’t be among the dead and lameAnd
Continue reading350 or bust: President Obama: Keystone XL must pass climate & jobs test
In his final press conference of 2014, President Obama spoke frankly about the so-called “benefits” to Americans of the Keystone XL pipeline. He points out it’s Canadian oil being transported over the United States to be sold on the global markets, with very little benefit to U.S. consumers. It’s good
Continue reading350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
Wishing all a wonderful Solstice. Here comes the light!
Continue reading350 or bust: Saturday At The Movies
What a way to go! The Colbert Report says goodbye in style: * You will be missed.
Continue reading350 or bust: Lima Accord For Climate Action Approved
Citizens’ Climate Lobby report from COP20: Lima Accord for Climate Action Approved By Joe Robertson At 1:22 am, on December 14, 2014, the Closing Plenary session of the 20th Conference of the Parties (COP20) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) approved the draft decision of the Ad-hoc Working
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On this third Sunday of Advent, an Apache Blessing:
Continue reading350 or bust: Waking The Frog
Tom Rand talks about “Waking the Frog” at Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada’s Carbon Fee Prosperity conference in Ottawa on Nov. 23rd, 2014. Mr. Rand is a Cleantech Investor, Advisor, Speaker, Author, and Entrepreneur. His latest book is Waking The Frog: solutions for our climate change paralysis. * TomRand.net Waking the
Continue reading350 or bust: Dr Katherine Hayhoe: A Climate For Change
Dr. Katherine Hayhoe, climate scientist, communicator, educator, and CCL science advisor, spoke at Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada’s Carbon Fee Prosperity conference last month. Dr Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist and associate professor of political science at Texas Tech University, where she is director of the Climate Science Center. She is
Continue reading350 or bust: Climate Change 101
“Caught between the impossible and the unthinkable, we must do the impossible.” David Roberts is staff writer at Grist.org. In this “Climate Change is Simple” TEDx Talk, he describes the causes and effects of climate change in blunt, plain terms.
Continue reading350 or bust: Climate-Concerned Canadians Travel to Ottawa To Talk Solutions
Keep calm and price carbon. Is it possible to solve the climate crisis without hurting the economy? That is the question that five members of Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) Red Lake were in Ottawa recently to address. They joined Canadians from Vancouver Island to Quebec who traveled to our nation’s
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On this first Sunday of the Advent season, I’m sharing an unusual video for a department store to create. It is this year’s official Christmas ad for Sainsbury, a British department store. They worked with the British Royal Legion. It is inspired by real events from 100 years ago, Christmas
Continue reading350 or bust: NASA video shows a year of CO2 pollution
A ultra-high-resolution NASA computer model has given scientists a stunning new look at how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere travels around the globe. Plumes of carbon dioxide in the simulation swirl and shift as winds disperse the greenhouse gas away from its sources. The simulation also illustrates differences in carbon
Continue reading350 or bust: Canadians Gather for “Carbon Fee Prosperity” Event in Ottawa
Climate-concerned Canadians from across the country are gathered in Ottawa today for the first day of the second annual Citizens’ Climate Lobby national conference and lobbying days. If you are in or around Ottawa and want to learn more about a dynamic, grassroots organization that is working to create the
Continue reading350 or bust: Carbon Fee Prosperity
We at CCL Canada have been working hard to set up a live webcasting of the Sunday lineup at our second annual conference and lobbying days in Ottawa this weekend, November 22 and 23rd. Keynote speakers at include Michael MacMillan, of Samara Canada and co-author of Tragedy in the Commons,
Continue reading350 or bust: The KXL Ad TransCanada Doesn’t Want You To See
Following yesterday’s defeat of the push to okay the Keystone XL Pipeline across the continental United States, here’s a video that the company trying to construct the tar-sands-oil-carrying “black snake” doesn’t want you to see. * TransCanada has made a series of videos entitled “Straight Talk about KXL” that seeks
Continue reading350 or bust: Pro-Keystone Vote Fails in US Senate
More good news on the climate front, after last week’s announcement of a US-China climate agreement. A few years ago, pro-Keystone XL pipeline legislation was depicted as a “no-brainer” by Washington insiders. It looks like our climate isn’t the only thing that’s changing; so is the political climate with regards
Continue readingTake Time To Renew Your Spirit
“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.“ ~Willa Cather *
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