Oilman challenges Poilievre
“We’ve talked for 40 years about climate change … and we’ve done very, very little about it.” That isn’t an environmentalist talking. Or a scientist. It’s Derek Evans, executive chair…
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Sunday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Sunday reading. – Seth Borenstein, Mary Katherine Wildeman and Anita Snow find that the U.S. suffered a record number of heat-related deaths in 2023, while Aryan…
Alberta could start small….
What I find remarkable about “small c-” Canadian Conservatives is how reluctant, how reticent, they are to acknowledge the economic change that is going on around them. Unlike Brian Mulroney…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jillian Ambrose reports on a study showing that there’s no reason to approve any new fossil fuel development to meet current demand forecasts…
Rich polluters pay for their sins
Amid the doom and gloom on the climate change front, we are occasionally treated to some good news. That was the case this week with the announcement by Environment Minister…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Lauren Chadwick reports on the WHO’s findings that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a multi-year drop in life expectancy and undone a…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Kate Raworth discusses the need to orient ourselves toward measures of progress based on well-being rather than growth – both due to its…
Water Wars
There's an extreme water crisis in Mexico City right now. They could run out of water within weeks. From Peter Dynes of MEER, "'Day Zero' is counting down to June…
Water Wars
There’s an extreme water crisis in Mexico City right now. They could run out of water within weeks. From Peter Dynes of MEER, “‘Day Zero’ is counting down to June…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Novinite surveys the numerous countries facing unprecedented heat warnings as the most extreme effects of the climate crisis hit earlier in the…
Taking it to the Streets: the Enough is Enough Rally
“Nothing is real that does not end on the streets. If tyrants feel no consequences for their actions in the three-dimensional world, nothing will change.” – Timothy Snyder, historian. On…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Leslie Sattler discusses new research showing that carbon concentrations are continuing to increase by record amounts. David King writes about the immediate and…
Billions and Billions
Would you rather have the convenience of being seen quickly at a local ER that was funded to stay open OR the convenience to buy mixed drinks at select grocery…
Billions and Billions
Would you rather have the convenience of being seen quickly at a local ER that was funded to stay open OR the convenience to buy mixed drinks at select grocery…
Giving Up or Letting Go
In September 2010, John Holdren, Harvard professor and Obama's science adviser, gave a speech on climate change arguing that people aren't aware enough of the ways we're affected by the…
Giving Up or Letting Go
In September 2010, John Holdren, Harvard professor and Obama’s science adviser, gave a speech on climate change arguing that people aren’t aware enough of the ways we’re affected by the…
AI – Stealing Voices, Artwork, and Water
AI is an environmental issue. Microsoft-backed OpenAI requires water – massive amounts of the limited resource: “pulled from the watershed of the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers in central Iowas…
AI – Stealing Voices, Artwork, and Water
AI is an environmental issue. Microsoft-backed OpenAI requires water - massive amounts of the limited resource:"pulled from the watershed of the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers in central Iowas to…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Simon Torracinta reviews Branko Milanovic’s Visions of Inequality in tracing historical conversations in inequality, while pointing out the importance of identifying power…
Western Canada’s climate change actions are inadequate or illusory
Climate change actions of British Columbia and Manitoba are inadequate and the main efforts by Alberta and Saskatchewan to reduce greenhouse emissions are illusory. While provinces in central and eastern…