Fertilizing, May 1972. Photo by Charles O’Rear from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Documerica project/US National Archives/Flickr. Last year marked six decades since the publication of Rachel Carson’s seminal work Silent…
Photo by Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register A few weeks ago, the New York Times published an investigation into Saudi Arabia’s comprehensive campaign to perpetuate the global fossil fuel economy.…
Anti-oil protesters throw tomato soup on van Gogh’s “Sunflowers.” Screenshot from Twitter. Earlier this month, a pair of young activists with a group called Just Stop Oil threw soup on…
“The Shell Skull” by Andreas Metz. Photo by Andreas Metz/Flickr. The United States House Committee on Oversight and Reform just held the third hearing of its investigation into the fossil…
Suburbs in Toronto. Photo by Jan Buchholtz. Retrofitting existing buildings is one of the only tools for mitigating climate change that virtually everyone can agree on. There are large numbers…
Photo by Matt Jiggins/Flickr Last week, the Liberal government took the first steps toward actualizing the emissions cap they promised during the last election for the oil and gas sector.…
A bright orange sky in Vancouver. Photo from Shutterstock. From June 25 to July 1, 2021, temperatures soared past 40 degrees in BC, setting records all over the province. The…
A carbon capture plant built by Climateworks in Hinwil, Switzerland. Photo by Adam Sébire/Keystone/Redux. Carbon Engineering, the carbon removal start-up based in Squamish, BC’s “Outdoor Recreation Capital,” recently announced an…
There’s no evidence that the vast majority of countries, particularly the world’s largest emitters, are on track to meet their emissions reductions commitments. So why are we pretending otherwise? Photo…
Demonstration during the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as the Copenhagen Summit, in Copenhagen, Denmark, December 17, 2009. Photo by Kris Krüg/Flickr. The latest report of the…
Oilsands reclamation site and Syncrude operations. Photo by Julia Kilpatrick/Pembina Institute/Flickr. In January, a United States federal court invalidated a series of oil and gas leases based on the federal…
The world’s SUV fleet is growing rapidly and the segment alone account for more emissions growth since 2010 than aviation, shipping, or heavy industry. Image by Artie61/Blendswap. Sport utility vehicles…
An illustrated map of the city of Omelas, the setting of The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, a work of short fiction by science fiction writer Ursula K. Le…
RCMP Emergency Response Team members stand watch during a raid on Wet’suwet’en territory in British Columbia, November 19, 2021. Photo courtesy Gidimt’en Checkpoint. Canada, like most of the Western (wealthy)…
A protester holds a sign at the climate strike in Nürnberg, September 2019. Photo by Markus Spiske/Unsplash. Like many dedicated volunteers last month, I spent hours doorknocking, phonebanking, and speaking…
