Overburden In Northern Alberta
* It’s been two days since I returned from Fort McMurray Alberta, ground zero for the Canadian tar sands extraction industry. I spent the weekend there, participating in the 4th…
climate change
Fixing the BC NDP, 2013 Version
Can the BC NDP actually Think Forward? About 4 years ago, there was a movement within the BC NDP to make it more relevant. It was called Think Forward BC…
Climate Change Denial Affirmations
The sky is not falling. It’s just the end of this ice age. Extreme weather events are not related to each other. The climate is not a global system of…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ethan Cox discusses how the Lac-Mégantic tragedy was a predictable – if not inevitable – outcome of a self-regulated (or un-regulated) rail system:…
At The Squamish Nation Powwow This Weekend!
Enrich your understanding at the Squamish Nation Powwow this weekend. In the quest for a better Canada, one that is more democratic, inclusive, consultative and less rejecting of science and…
Is Shortsightedness Our Tragic Flaw?
Rubber dinghies rescuing flooded train passengers. Cars submerged to their roofs. Raging river torrents. This could easily be a snapshot from India during monsoon season, but no, that was the…
The Harper Government Must Be Right On Track #cdnpoli
This morning, I dealt with indignant HarperCons on Twitter, while they didn’t take my advice about the validity of claims by a certain tweeter not shy of bending the truth…
Place your Keystone bets
Joe Romm is betting it's off: Harder writes:To the surprise of everyone outside the White House, Obama mentioned the pipeline in his speech. It was a politically savvy move for…
Place your Keystone bets
Joe Romm is betting it’s off: Harder writes: To the surprise of everyone outside the White House, Obama mentioned the pipeline in his speech. It was a politically savvy move…
Place your Keystone bets
Joe Romm is betting it’s off: Harder writes: To the surprise of everyone outside the White House, Obama mentioned the pipeline in his speech. It was a politically savvy move…
Sliverization: Glaciers Melting Quickly
Civilization has a sliver of a chance to survive this century. Earth’s ice sheets are doomed. That’s it for us. Watch the trolls roll through saying, “The. earth. has. natural.…
Albertans, not Exxon Mobil, are paying the price for carbon
Thursday, July 4, 2013 It’s safe to say that Exxon Mobil, and other companies responsible for large amounts of greenhouse gas pollution, don’t intend to pay for the $3 Billion…
New, Better Jobs Building a Green Energy Infrastructure
Let’s go post-carbon and transform Big Carbon jobs into green jobs! We are so addicted to carbon-based energy: oil, gas, coal, LNG plants, fracking, pipelines, tanker spills. It gets so…
New column day
Here, marking yet another year of broken Conservative promises when it comes to climate change. For further reading…– CBC reports on the the continued lack of regulations for the oil…
“We Are Sleepwalking To Disaster . . " *
Many in the blogosphere are doing a stellar job covering the climate-change beat, including The Disaffected Lib, who has had several recent thought-provoking posts on the subject. So I really…
For a Diversity of Tactics
I went last night to a presentation by two women from Deep Green Resistance. It was an interesting presentation focusing on the question of how we make change in our…
4 Atom Bombs of Heat Per Second
Need to visualize the amount of heat trapped due to the greenhouse effect enhanced by excessive carbon dioxide levels. By raising carbon dioxide levels in Earth’s air, the land, ice,…
Linda McQuaig: Alberta And Climate Change
For me, one of the most disappointing aspects of the media coverage of the Alberta floods has been the relative dearth of commentary linking this monumental environmental disaster to climate…
#Fearless Summer: Healing Journey In The Heart Of Darkness
I’m leaving for northern Alberta early Wednesday morning, to make the 24-hour drive to Fort McMurray, the heart of tar sands country. Mordor. The 4th Annual Tar Sands Healing Walk,…