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Tag: environment

December 5, 2011 Ryan Painter

Dude, Where’s Our Climate Policy?

The Durban Climate Conference hasn’t even begun yet and already Canada is getting flack for it’s poor reputation on the environment. What do you expect though from an environment minister who didn’t even know what Ozone was up until a week ago (let’s be fair, he’s only been on the job since

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December 4, 2011 bazie

Progressive Proselytizing: Ottawa NDP Leadership Debate Thoughts

The debate was good. Exciting even. After several months of being forced to sate my political appetite on the Republican leadership contest, the NDP leadership debate in Ottawa provided a refreshing Canadian contrast. Overall there was far more homogeneity between positions than there was difference. The tone of the debate

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December 4, 2011 LeDaro

LeDaro: Harper government gets another “Fossil of the year award”

What can one say? Shame, shame! Our environment minister, Peter Kent, is a joke. Harper should move him to Senate like Mike Duffy. They will make a great pair. Read the story here.

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December 4, 2011 vanillaman

The Happy Wanderer: Canada Moving Years Back!

With The Kyoto deadline at the end of the month Canada is in no way going to reach it’s target of 6% below 1990 levels. In fact in 2008 the only provinces who actually reduced their emissions below 1990 levels is Quebec and PEI. All the other provinces increased. I

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December 2, 2011 Christine

350 or bust: Tar Nation: Haunting Photos Reveal Rape of Canada’s Boreal Forest

Garth Lenz has spent the last 20 years photographing wilderness and indigenous peoples, focusing particularly on environmental issues, throughout Canada, the U.S., Chile, Ecuador, Borneo, and China. His photos have been published in numerous books, newspapers, and magazines including Time Magazine, B.B.C. Wildlife Magazine, The Guardian, The New York Times

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December 2, 2011 David Eaves

eaves.ca: Using Open Data to Map Vancouver’s Trees

This week, in preparation for the International Open Data Hackathon on Saturday, the Vancouver Parks Board shared one neighborhood of its tree inventory database (that I’ve uploaded to Buzzdata) so that we could at least see how it might be leveraged by citizens. What’s interesting is how valuable this data

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November 30, 2011 Excited Delirium

Excited Delirium: You Can’t Nationalize Carbon Costs

It’s stupid to think that a carbon tax would have any benefit for our economy or change habits.

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November 30, 2011 Nancy Leblanc

Impolitical: Canadians support carbon tax

That’s what a new Environics poll finds, well-timed as a backdrop for the Durban climate change conference: “Support for climate action still strong in Canada, poll finds.” See near the end, 57% of British Columbians support the carbon tax, where they actually have one, which is important. The poll finds

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November 29, 2011 Marc Lee

The Progressive Economics Forum: On climate, Canada is a rogue state

On Sunday, CTV leaked Canada’s intentions to pull out of the Kyoto treaty process on climate change. What is significant about Kyoto is that it is a legally binding international treaty, and one that puts the onus of emission reductions on the countries that have done the most to cause the

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November 29, 2011 Ryan Painter

Greening Economy Isn’t Just For Us, It’s For All

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization, in a statement made by Director-General Kandeh K. Yumkella today at the agencies biennial conference in Vienna, said something that I’m sure most right wingers will write off as just another attempt to poison business. Mr Yumkella pointed pointed out that talking about the green economy as

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November 27, 2011 Ryan Painter

Do We Need More Proof That Harper Doubts Global Warming?

First we had the cuts to ozone monitoring that saw the shuttering of 17 ozone monitoring stations across Canada. The reason? Ozone apparently wasn’t a concern anymore (see Canada’s newest Ozone hole here). Then we had the sudden (and somewhat expected) cut of 700 jobs from environment Canada (which included Meteorologists, scientists, chemists and

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November 24, 2011 Adam

Things Are Good: Organic Farming Better Than Factory Farming

There are still a lot of people who think that congenital factory farming is the most efficient way to produce crops, well those people get proven wrong – a lot! The good news is that organic farming is good for the crops, the planet, and the farmer’s profitability. Check it

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November 23, 2011 Saskboy

Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Pizza May Contain Veggies, Boards Contain Nuts

Once upon a time, Saskboy made a pizza. It was not according to the design of the requester, instead it had nutritious onions on it. Saskboy got the cold shoulder when he delivered it. This short story was brought to you by the makers of pizza. It’s a vegetable on

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November 21, 2011 Saskboy

Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Monsanto And Why You’ll Care

I was surprised when talking with some fellow Occupiers the other day that they were unaware of what Monsanto corporation makes, and why it’s a threat to human and plant life. I explained it this way: WARNING: The following is suitable for small children and mature audiences. Some people may

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November 21, 2011 Greg Fingas

Accidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links

Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Barrie McKenna thoroughly debunks the claim that “financial literacy” alone is enough to put ordinary citizens on a level playing field with the financial industry: Looking to financial literacy to fill the void is like asking ordinary Canadians to be their own brain

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November 21, 2011 BlastFurnace

Blast Furnace Canada Blog: Who’s protecting YOUR water?

This should really make us all wake up: Someone from Russia (it could have been the government or a private interest, we don’t know yet) was able to remotely shut off then back on a second later a pump in Springfield, the capital of the state of Illinois — and

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November 20, 2011 Norman Farrell

Northern Insights / Perceptivity: Tyson Creek – before and after

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November 19, 2011 BlastFurnace

Blast Furnace Canada Blog: A reply to my tar sands entries

In response to some of my recent posts about the tar sands, I got an e-mail the other day in reply that was quite compelling enough that I asked the writer if I could use it here.   He agreed provided I not use his last name.   I am okay with

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November 18, 2011 The Liberal Scarf

The Liberal Scarf: Support sending Young Liberals to the COP-17 UN Climate Change Conference!

https://www.liberal.ca/ylc-durban/?typecode=300011936 I was lucky enough to be a part of the COP-15 YLC delegation, and I’m really pleased the party is doing a lot more to help promote fundraising for youth delegates. Please donate and help support the Young Liberals of Canada.

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November 18, 2011 Cliff

Rusty Idols: Alison Redford owes me an apology

Me and the millions of other Canadians and Albertans who care about the environment for suggesting that she has the right to go to Washington and lobby for the Keystone Pipeline but those who oppose the project shouldn’t have the same right. OTTAWA — Premier Alison Redford found herself Thursday

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