Major advances in batteries and other storage technologies are jump-starting renewable energy - making it competitive with fossil fuels and closer to being able to replace them.The post Battery breakthroughs…
Photo: Ben Harrington / Flickr CC licence Volkswagen was caught cheating on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency emissions tests by installing “defeat devices,” which allowed its diesel vehicles to pass nitrogen…
Pope Francis (Catholic Church of England / Flickr) Earth has existed for 4.5 billion years, humans for somewhere around 150,000. But in my brief lifetime — less than 80 years…
Tahltan First Nations and supporters peacefully occupying a Fortune Minerals drill (Beyond Boarding) Recent events in Canada have shown not only that change is possible, but that people won’t stand…
BC’s Glacier National Park has seen decreasing snowpacks in recent years (Sesivany/Jiri Eischmann/Wikipedia) How long can you go without water? You could probably survive a few weeks without water for…
Photo: Translink Many people think of Canada as a landscape of forests, mountains, water and ice, but the Canadian experience is fast becoming focused on glass and concrete. Our 2011…
NHL hockey player Clayton Stoner posing with dead grizzly (Coastal Guardian Watchmen) Watching grizzly bears catch and eat salmon as they swim upstream to spawn is an unforgettable experience. Many…
84 year-old retried librarian Barbara Grant getting arrested at Burnaby Mountain (facebook) A scientist, or any knowledgeable person, will tell you climate change is a serious threat for Canada and…
No matter how you feel about Ontario’s proposal to restrict use of neonicotinoid insecticides on corn and soybean crops, we can all agree: bees matter. But as important as bees…
Prime Minister Stephen Harper with then-Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao upon FIPA signing in 2012 In 1997, Canada restricted import and transfer of the gasoline additive MMT because it was a…
Cheaper gas means more fill-ups at the pump With oil prices plunging from more than $100 a barrel last summer to below $50 now, the consequences of a petro-fuelled economy…
A Toronto March in solidarity with Guatemalan Goldcorp protestors (Photo: Allan Lissner) It sometimes seems people in the mining and fossil fuel industries — along with their government promoters —…
There’s no free ride when it comes to generating energy. Even the cleanest sources have environmental consequences. Materials for all power-generating facilities have to be obtained and transported, and infrastructure…
David Suzuki and Neil Young, who will team up in Vancouver for the “Blue Dot” tour (Photo: davidsuzuki.org) The idea of a right to a healthy environment is getting traction…
Photo: Associated Press/ Ed Andrieski What’s the fastest-growing sector in Canada’s economy? Given what you hear from politicians and the media, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s the resource industry,…
First Nations and farmers join forces at “Paddle for the Peace” to oppose Site C (Damien Gillis) B.C. First Nations chiefs recently travelled to Ottawa to urge the federal government…
A resident of the region surveys Hazeltine Creek following tailings dam breach (Chris Blake) When a tailings pond broke at the Mount Polley gold and copper mine in south-central B.C.,…
G7 leaders meet in The Hague in 2014 When we elect people to office, we give them power to make and enact decisions on our behalf. They should have a…
Matthias Kulka/Corbis Nanoparticles can be used to deliver vaccines, treat tumours, clean up oil spills, preserve food, protect skin from sun and kill bacteria. They’re so useful for purifying, thickening,…
David Suzuki and rocker Neil Young will be teaming up again for the “Blue Dot” tour (Photo: davidsuzuki.org) A now-famous 1972 photo of Earth taken by Apollo 17 astronauts from…
