David Suzuki: Climate Deniers All Over the Map
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. A little over a year ago, I wrote about a Heartland Institute conference in Las Vegas where climate change deniers engaged in…
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Federal Leaders Have Never Been Asked About Science Policy in an Election Debate. Ever.
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Federal Leaders Have Never Been Asked About Science Policy in an Election Debate. Ever.
This is a guest post by Katie Gibbs, PhD, a biologist and the Executive Director of Evidence for Democracy and Alana Westwood, a PhD Candidate at Dalhousie University and research…
David Suzuki: Premiers’ Energy Strategy Falls Short
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. On July 15, a state-of-the-art new pipeline near Fort McMurray, Alberta, ruptured, spilling five million litres of bitumen, sand and waste water…
Facing the Simple but Hard Truths of the Alberta Oilsands
This is a guest post by Tzeporah Berman, Adjunct Professor York University Faculty of Environmental Studies and longtime environmental advocate. A shorter version of this piece originally appeared on the…
The Canada-China FIPA Restricts Canada’s Climate Options
This is a guest post by Gus Van Harten, professor at the Osgoode Hall Law School and author of Sold Down the Yangtze: Canada’s Lopsided Investment Deal with China. This…
Right-wing Circles Angry but Pope’s Climate Intervention Makes Complete Sense
This is a guest post by Charles J. Reid Jr., professor of law at the University of St. Thomas. It is a line repeated with tiresome regularity in right-wing circles:…
Canada’s Emissions Cost the World 8,800 Lives and $15.4 Billion Every Year
This is a guest post by Andrew Gage, staff counsel with West Coast Environmental Law. Canada is not a super-power. We’re geographically large, but small in terms of population. And…
I Hate to Break it to You, B.C., But You’re Not a Climate Leader
This is a guest post by Jens Wieting, forest and climate campaigner with the Sierra Club B.C. If you live in British Columbia you might think that our province is…
Communications Breakdown: Speak Boldly and Carry a Big Schtick
This article was originally published in “Canada’s Map to Sustainability,” a special issue of Alternatives Journal (A\J) in partnership with Sustainable Canada Dialogues (SCD). Comments on the A\J website will…
Communications Breakdown: Speak Boldly and Carry a Big Schtick
This article was originally published in “Canada’s Map to Sustainability,” a special issue of Alternatives Journal (A\J) in partnership with Sustainable Canada Dialogues (SCD). Comments on the A\J website will…
China’s Disastrous Pollution Problem Is A Lesson For All
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. Beijing’s 21 million residents live in a toxic fog of particulate matter, ozone, sulphur dioxide, mercury, cadmium, lead and other contaminants, mainly…
China’s Disastrous Pollution Problem Is A Lesson For All
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. Beijing’s 21 million residents live in a toxic fog of particulate matter, ozone, sulphur dioxide, mercury, cadmium, lead and other contaminants, mainly…
Top 3 Myths About Greening Canada’s Economy
This is a guest post by Sustainable Prosperity, a national green economy think tank. This is a big week for Canadian energy and climate policy, with Monday’s Canadian Round Table…
Top 3 Myths About Greening Canada’s Economy
This is a guest post by Sustainable Prosperity, a national green economy think tank. This is a big week for Canadian energy and climate policy, with Monday’s Canadian Round Table…
Oiling The Machinery Of Climate Change Denial And Transit Opposition
This is a guest post by David Suzuki Brothers Charles and David Koch run Koch Industries, the second-largest privately owned company in the U.S., behind Cargill. They’ve given close to…
Glaciers in Canadian Rockies Could Shrink By 95% by 2100, Study Finds
This blog originally appeared on Carbon Brief. The Canadian Rockies, which sit as a backdrop to many a stunning vista, could be almost entirely devoid of glaciers by the end…
Water Is Life; We Can’t Afford To Waste It
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. How long can you go without water? You could probably survive a few weeks without water for cooking. If you stopped washing,…
Who Says a Better World is Impossible?
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. Cars, air travel, space exploration, television, nuclear power, high-speed computers, telephones, organ transplants, prosthetic body parts… At various times these were all…
Raven Coal proposal May Not Be Gone For Good, But We’re Winning the Social Licence Battle
This is a guest post by Torrance Coste, Vancouver Island campaigner with the Wilderness Committee, an organization working with local groups and individuals to stop the Raven Coal Mine. Monday,…