Reposted from April 4, 2010. Brian McClaren‘s Holy Week: Meditation 6: Wherever there is death … wherever hope is buried … wherever evil triumphs over law, and wherever law triumphs over grace … wherever injustice, unkindness, and arrogance are winning … just wait. It’s not over yet. * More links:
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DeSmogBlog: Young Americans Sue Government to Stop Global Warming, Polluter Interests Granted Intervention To Defend
Screen shot 2012-04-03 at 4.37.19 PM.png Last May, a group of young Americans, fed up with government inaction on climate change, decided to sue to protect their future. The group, led by 16-year old Alec Loorz, founder of Kids vs. Global Warming and the iMatter campaign, filed legal actions against
Continue readingthe disgruntled democrat: Living in the Age of Stupid
I know that many before me have felt that they live during times in which their fellow man’s limited intelligence rules the day, much to their chagrin. I can imagine how learned people felt in Europe during two thousand years of endless war and carnage, first in the name of
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Gwynne Dyer on Our Future
I have been writing lately about environmental degradation and the bleak future that seems to await us. On that theme, (and because I have a busy morning ahead of me) I am providing a link to an article by Gwynne Dyer, who argues that because of our huge global population
Continue reading350 or bust: Enbridge Pipeline Panel Frightened By Singing & Drumming Pipeline Opposition
In a bizarre turn of events, the Enbridge Pipeline hearings were suspended in Bella Bella in northern British Columbia yesterday after the panel members expressed concerns about their safety. This development seems curious, as the Joint Review panel members have the full weight of the federal government behind them, and
Continue reading350 or bust: Solar Energy Spill Alert
The billboard picture below has been making the rounds on Facebook recently. The billboard’s source is votesolar.org, whose mission is to bring solar energy into the mainstream. Just substitute “Canada” or “the world” for “America” in the paragraph below, from Vote Solar’s website: Think of America’s problems. Global warming. Air
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: We are All Complicit in Environmental Degradation
Recently I wrote a post about the chilling effect that the federal budget will have on charities, especially those devoted to environmental activism. Unfortunately, I chose to ignore another reality that is equally grim – the fact that all of us (forgive the sweeping generalization) are to blame both for
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: As The Maldives Slowly Erode Away: A Review Of "The Island President" Documentary
photo4thumb.jpg Mohamed "Anni" Nasheed caught widespread attention when he held a cabinet meeting underneath the sea in the months leading up to the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009. He continued to captivate negotiators, governments, and climate advocates with his frank and outspoken demeanor, sometimes for better or for worse. As
Continue reading350 or bust: Harper’s Budget: Fossil Fuel Subsidies Maintained, Conservation Groups Targeted
While I’ve been traveling in southern Ontario this past week, with little time to spend on the internet, it seems that I and my fellow Canadians have fallen down the rabbit hole. With the warmest March on the record books coming to a close after decades of scientific warnings about
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Energy Efficiency Hour
Earth Hour has been implemented incorrectly the last few years. It’s time to change that, and use the time to make a concrete contribution to energy efficiency that lasts [Instead of Earth Hour]. Turning off power sucking devices for an hour only saves an hour of electricity to be consumed
Continue readingfirst word, tree.: Organizing the Personal to the Structural
My personal motivations for participating in movement-building stem from a steady process of feeling empowered through collective action with climate justice organizers. I wish to share my experience to help illustrate the profound impact that I believe climate justice organizing is having in Canada and how it is developing a resilient, creative,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Parade of Disgraceful Conservatives
The Conservative Party of Canada could use better people to back it, and its ideology. The current support crowd online has some pretty obvious, and significant flaws: threatening lawsuits (both Gator69 and Red Jeff have offered to report me to the appropriate non-authorities on climate change, so they can send
Continue reading350 or bust: Is The Climate Really Too Big To Fail?
350.org has a new campaign to bring home the reality of climate change to people in North America. They are asking people to “connect the dots ” on 5/5/12 by protesting, educating, documenting and volunteering along with thousands of people around the world to support the communities on the front
Continue reading350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
But when I said that nothing had been done I erred in one important matter. We had definitely committed ourselves and were halfway out of our ruts. We had put down our passage money–booked a sailing to Bombay. This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence. Until one
Continue readingJoseph Lister, climate change and the arrogance of ignorance
Reading about the assassination of U.S President James Garfield recently, I encountered yet another example of the power and persistence of ignorance in the face of facts. Garfield was infamously killed not by his assailant’s bullets but by his doctors. He died not from his wounds but from the massive
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: Out of Sorts
Don’t know if it’s the crazy weather, but just feeling a little whacked today. Got up this morning, all burstin’ to write an epic post about the RNAO’s new best practice guidelines on restraints, wrote about three paragraphs and went bleh. Didn’t care as much as I thought. So maybe
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: The Parable of the Prius
I was at a talk on dematerialization a few weeks ago, and one of the speakers told “the parable of the Prius” to illustrate Jevon’s paradox that efficiency gains do not necessarily reduce energy consumption (and from a climate perspective, greenhouse gas emissions). In the case of buying a fuel-efficient
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Water Wars Warning
Hillary Clinton looks at water and doesn’t like what she sees. The US Secretary of State warns that competition for increasingly scarce water supplies may will fuel terrorism, political instability and wars in the coming decades. ”’I think it’s fair to say the intelligence community’s findings are sobering,” Mrs Clinton
Continue readingCo2 Art: Sir, your room in the ice hotel is currently flowing down the St. Lawrence River
A couple of years ago, the biathlon (normally includes cross country skiing) at the B.C. Winter Games had to be replaced by haha the “summer biathlon”.This year, if you had a room booked at the Montreal Ice Hotel during the last two weeks of March, you…
Continue readingCo2 Art: Sir, your room in the ice hotel is currently flowing down the St. Lawrence River
A couple of years ago, the biathlon (normally includes cross country skiing) at the B.C. Winter Games had to be replaced by haha the “summer biathlon”. This year, if you had a room booked at the Montreal Ice Hotel during the last two weeks of March, you room is now
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