Kelowna’s Anti-Choice Week
If you live near Kelowna, BC or plan to visit it anytime soon, there’s a good reason why you might want to boycott local tourism, businesses or wineries. It appears…
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Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
In a boat at sea one of the men began to bore a hole in the bottom of the boat. On being remonstrated, he answered, “I am only boring under…
Non-Religious Pro-Lifers?
For the last few years (circa 2008 or when I started to pay attention to this anyway), the pro-life movement has been attempting to brand itself as non-religious. “Pro-life because…
Next Election, Vote For Penelope
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“We Are All Downstream”: Tar Sands Protests Go Global
Yesterday, 144 protesters were taken away in police vans from the front of the White House, bringing the total number of people arrested for peacefully expressing their opposition to the…
Our Land: Will We Be Left With Only a Memory of Beauty That We Might Have Protected?
American photographer and environmentalist Ansel Adams was a passionate advocate for national parks. Adams, who was best known for his striking black and white photographs of the West, died in…
The Economy: Stealing The Future, Selling it In The Present, and Calling It GDP
In this TED talk from last month, futurist Alex Steffen shares a vision of the way our cities offer the key to addressing climate change. Cities, Steffen says, can help…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
Former U.N. Ambassador Stephen Lewis ended his moving eulogy for Jack Layton yesterday with this inspiring quote: Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a…
We’ll Miss You, Jack
Today is the state funeral for the Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, and the Leader of the Official Opposition in the Canadian Parliament, Mr. Jack Layton. Like…
Pipeline Protestors to Obama: This Is Our Environmental Impact Statement
From TPM.com, Why Far-Off Canadian Tar Sands Have Become Make-or-Break Issue For Obama With Enviros: For six days and counting now, hundreds of protesters have gathered outside the White House…
Climate Mama: I Need To Be In Washington This Week For My Children
Harriet Sugarman, a policy analyst and economist, is the Founder and Executive Director of Climate Mama which, according to its website, is: …about the facts, about getting the straight scoop,…
The Radicals Are The People Who Are Fundamentally Altering The Composition Of The Atmosphere
From Tar Sands Action, an update on Day 4 of the two-week action in Washington DC against the Keystone XL pipeline project: Montana residents and Hollywood stars will be featured…
Jack Layton: Let Us Be Loving, Hopeful, and Optimistic. And We’ll Change The World
A letter to Canadians from Jack Layton, leader of the NDP and the leader of the Official Opposition in the Canadian Parliament. It is dated August 20, two days before…
Tar Sands Pipeline Provokes Americans To Civil Disobedience
Saturday August 20th marked the start of the largest act of civil disobedience for the climate in U.S. history. Over 2,000 people from across the U.S. and Canada are arriving…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ~John F. Kennedy
Climate Change Lite
This video has nothing to do with climate change, except as a reminder not to lose our sense of humour in these trying times. If it helps, you can imagine…
Why We Resist The Truth About Climate Change
While I’m away on a canoe trip this week, I will be posting articles from the 350orbust archives. This was first published in June, 2010. Via “Nothing New Under The…
“People Who Believe In Climate Change Should Have Their Heads Examined”
I’m off canoeing in beautiful Canadian Shield country again this week, so while I’m on holiday I will be reposting articles from the 350orbust archives. This article was first published…
It’s Time To Enter a Twelve-Step Program For Our Oil Addiction
This was first posted on July 28, 2010. Unfortunately, it remains just as accurate a year later, despite the promise of the leaders at the 2009 Pittsburgh G8 to eliminate…
350 or bust 2011-08-15 09:52:06
I can hear the Ministry of Natural Resources helicopter already up in the sky on this hazy Red Lake morning. The smoke from nearby forest fires continues to drift into…