Tag: climate change
350 or bust: For Our Children: Stand Up, Speak Out
It`s TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust. Marianne Williamson, an internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher and New York Times bestselling author, spoke at TEDx Traverse City earlier this year. I love that she`s running for Congress in 2014; she could be a game-changer. *
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: First Nations Get $0.3M for Solar Research #skpoli
The Conservative government generously gave First Nations in Saskatchewan enough grant money to build one impressively sized solar array that could power a half dozen homes. Ontario is going with $5,000M. SaskPower gave 10 times this much to the UofR to research how to put CO2 underground so more oil
Continue reading350 or bust: Dr James Hansen: Assessing Dangerous Climate Change
“If we go another decade or two just charging ahead business as usual, then we leave people a possibly unsolvable problem.” -James Hansen * Retired NASA scientist Dr James Hansen published a new paper this week, entitled Assessing “Dangerous Climate Change”: Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: 300 Years Is Bogus
Thanks to another letter writer, Michael McKinlay, I caught this opportunity to again offer a better future perspective than SaskPower’s current President has done thus far. http://saskboy.wordpress.com/2013/09/15/an-irrational-mixup-at-saskpower/ I’m writing in response to SaskPower President and CEO Robert Watson’s comments in the November 25th article, “SaskPower set to overhaul power grid“.
Continue reading350 or bust: Saturday At The Movies
Enjoy these sheep dogs sneaking up on each other. LOL.
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Ex-Harper adviser blasts Keystone XL, calls Canada a “rogue state”
Ex-Harper appointee Mark Jaccard trashed the Conservatives’ support of the tar sands industry during a key Keystone XL summit in Washington D.C. on Monday. The post Ex-Harper adviser blasts Keystone XL, calls Canada a “rogue state” appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingCanada-Australia climate axis—greatest threat to global security?
Prime Minister Harper once announced that the greatest threat to global security was terrorism. That was nonsense of course—every year, malaria kills approximately 660,000 people, mostly children, and AIDS 1,700,000 people. Terrorism is a trivial threat compared to the big killers. And the biggest of all, if we don’t act
Continue reading350 or bust: Saturday At The Movies
I know tomorrow is the first Sunday of Advent in the Christian calendar (as well as the first day of December), but I can’t resist posting this today. I confess I’ve been listening to carols for a week now, since the snow blanketed my part of the world winter wonderland
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Made in Canada Scam Plan #cdnpoli
Conservatives are stalling, as they have been for nearly 8 years on both Senate reform and climate change action. .@mikedesouza Only 7 years ago the Made In Canada plan for CO2 was promised to Canadians. Conservatives only kick the can. #climatechange— Saskboy K. (@saskboy) November 28, 2013 Now: Aglukkaq: Canada
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Atlantic Canada faces climate consequences for our energy choices
Hurricane Earl strikes Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia, in 2010. (Andrew Vaughan/CP) David Suzuki Foundation supporters who live in Western Canada often have eyes riveted on Ottawa to see what the federal government’s next move will be when it comes to environmental issues. So we sometimes too easily overlook Canadians in
Continue reading350 or bust: Saturday At The Movies
Pretty funny:
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Global Greens React to Ongoing COP 19 Negotiations
We are on a collision course to global disaster with a dangerous disconnect between the political timetable and what science is warning us – Elizabeth May COP 19 – Global Greens Political Perspectives for climate: Warsaw climate conference should produce real action and progress on an ambitious 2015 agreement! The
Continue reading350 or bust: Climate Change: Our Weather On Steroids
Climate change increases the frequency and severity of severe weather events. Is this really the legacy we want to leave for our children? This video was taken from a Shell/Dairy Queen in Diamond Illinois on November 17, 2013. One of the security cameras captured a business and a house across
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Report: Canada ranks last out of 27 developed countries on environmental protection: Canada’s COP 19 ‘irrelevance’
Top: Canada environment minister, Leona Aglukkaq Canada’s climate policy – rated as the worst in the developed world – makes environment minister Leona Aglukkaq’s presence at COP 19 in Warsaw seem more of a formality than anything else. Christian Holz head of Climate Action Network Canada is quoted by CBC
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Who is responsible for climate change?
Thursday, November 21, 2013 A new paper from noted climate scientist, Richard Heede lists 90 privately and publicly owned fossil fuel and cement companies, and a handful of nation states, that are collectively responsible for 2/3 of the total global emissions of greenhouse gases to date. We may all be
Continue readingHarper outshames Ford
Embarrassing our country more than Toronto Mayor Rob Ford would seem to be an impossible task. Yet our prime minister has done just that. On November 12th, the federal government issued a formal statement that included the following remark: “Canada applauds the decision by Prime Minister Abbott to introduce legislation
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