Saturday At The Movies
It’s graduation time, so here’s Ellen DeGeneres delivering the 2009 commencement address – and great advice for living a good life – at Tulane University.
climate change
Perhaps Its Time To Stop Talking And Start Acting?
For obvious reasons. Recommend this Post
Mother Nature, Pumped Up By Warmer Atmosphere, Swamps Alberta
* “If you think mitigated climate change is expensive, try unmitigated climate change.” Dr Richard Gammon * The City of Calgary, home riding of Canada’s climate-denying, scientist-muzzling Prime Minister, ordered…
Canada v. Australia on Climate Science
Thursday, June 20, 2013 This week is a good time to think about climate science, and especially how governments listen to, and act on, the recommendations of climate experts. It’s…
Species Worth Saving
The Prairie Dog Blog linked to an excellent article in The Stranger last year. It lays out humanity’s future, based on the status quo. hether you can pin it precisely…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Paul Krugman writes that the only real difference between the latest global crisis and past depressions is that we’ve moved further and…
Ms Smith Goes To Washington To Lobby For A Price On Carbon Pollution
Life feels incredibly busy these days; not only is it gardening season, there’s so much happening on the climate front as well as personally that it’s hard to keep up.…
Is new coal export infrastrucutre in the best interest of BC and Canada
Today’s CBC Edition Business Panel focused on the proposal by Fraser Surrey Docks to build a new coal terminal on the Fraser river to export US thermal coal (if you…
Happy Father’s Day
Here’s a shout out for all the dads out there, and especially the three in my life – my husband, my father, and my father-in-law. You are all awesome, and…
Saturday The Movies
Great video from a BBC documentary:
Dirty Energy Ushers Us Into New, and Disturbing, Territory
How much more damage to our land, water, and climate are we willing to tolerate before we just say no to this economic system of death? * This week in…
Corporate Hypocrites Gone Wild: Syncrude Edition
Let’s say that you’re one of the world’s largest producers of synthetic crude and also Canada’s largest single-source producer of crude derived from oil sands. Imagine that you are also…
Fearless Summer Heats Up
* There have been five arrests this week of people protesting the presence of SWN Resources Canada on traditional Mi’kmaq territory in New Brunswick. The protests are being led by…
Whistleblower Snowden: NSA Surveillance Will Lead To “Turnkey Tyranny”
This incredibly brave young man’s story needs to be shared far and wide. 29 year old Edward Snowden, through The Guardian newspaper, went public as the NSA whistleblower yesterday. His…
The Harper Government: Making The North Pole Safe, For Oil Companies & You
The Alberta tar sands aren’t only environmentally friendly, they’re good for the ozone layer, they will stop illiteracy and alleviate erectile dysfunction; and that’s just the tip of the melting…
Ottawa: Buying Ads Is Easier Than Rooting Out CPC Corruption
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate’er it touches. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab What a week in “Ottawapiskat”! In Canada’s capital city the embattled government of Stephen Harper is…
First Nations & Tar Sands: “Our Backs Are To The Wall”
From the Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance: * More links: Indigenous Environmental Network Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance NoKXL Tar Sands Action