Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Michael Hiltzik points out new research showing that business-focused policies do nothing at all to encourage any positive economic outcomes: in fact,…
climate change
Climate Change Impacts Hit Florida
* Record floods and extreme weather: Florida’s floods are linked to climate change
Climate Change: Look At The Big Picture Or Nothing
For this TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust, climatologist and climate modeler Gavin Schmidt from NASA’s Goddard Institute For Space Sciences discusses climate modeling. You can’t understand climate change in pieces,…
Climate change is real
The world must pay attention. The erratic weather is one indication. The U.S. faced some severe weather – tornadoes, heavy snow and rain, drought in California. More tornadoes to come.…
Archbishop Desmond Tutu: No Excuse For Climate Ignorance
* The Guardian: We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet: We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Edward Greenspon’s report on the Keystone XL review process is well worth a read – particularly in exposing how the Harper Cons have…
Saturday At The Movies
A love story. Get your hanky ready. * If you want to watch a longer version of this story, check out the video below.
Let’s Play Cowboys and Indians
Why not? It seems to be working in Washington, DC. And you know what? They’ve got our backs. When ranchers are farmers and tribal communities realize that the tarsands and…
The Change Within: The Obstacles We Face Are Not Just External-Naomi Kline
Naomi Kline once again shares her eloquence and understanding of the challenges facing us on what is the threatened condition of ‘Planet Earth’ The climate crisis has such bad timing,…
What’s the risk? Climate activism aiming at supply and demand
One way to think about climate activism is to see if it focuses on the supply of or demand for fossil fuels – pipelines or cars, hydrocarbons or carbon emissions.…
Happy Earth Day
I truly wish there was something to celebrate. Take a look at my previous post and the commentary from the Mound of Sound that accompanies it; then watch this short…
Environment Ministry staff warn BC govt about LNG emissions
VANCOUVER – British Columbia Environment Ministry staff have warned their minister that the province’s dreamed-of liquefied natural gas industry poses some big challenges with greenhouse gas emissions. Internal briefing notes…
The World Economic Forum Is Now Occupy’s Mouthpiece
By the way, if you were keeping track, the World Economic Forum rules the world. They’re the richest corporations in the world getting together with governments to plan the world.…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
Happy Earth Day Weekend!
Harperland and the Winds of Change
Sometimes I think that getting Canadians to take any kind of political action is like that swan trying to get the wooden ones to follow. Because we must be one…
Fur trade and tar sands
Here is Joseph Boyden talking with the Globe and Mail last fall about his novel Orenda: “You look at this novel and you think immigration, who you allow in and…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Paul Krugman explains how one’s political values figure to affect one’s view of evidence as to the success or failure of a policy:…