Of Nuclear Power and Hang Gliders
How's that solar farm coming? How are you doing with mothballing those coal plants? 2015 is just four years away after all. How are you in the East doing about…
climate change
Yours Truly, BP: The Legacy of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster
The NRDC’s recent report on water quality at vacation beaches highlights the continuing legacy of the BP Gulf oil disaster, which killed 11 workers and spewed approximately 170 million gallons…
From Passive, Helpless Spectator To Creating Positive Change: “You Can’t Help Being An Optimist”
“You can’t help but be an optimist when you are contributing to positive change. Believe in your own power and then to be bold enough to use it. Together we…
Are Climate Models Giving Us a False Sense of Security?
Climate models, those vast computer simulations, seem to prompt inevitable criticism from climate change skeptics and the fossil fuel industry and its paid political pals. It's easy to attack these…
Business As Usual Is Over: Value Change Required For Survival
Today’s blog posting was initially posted on 350orbust on June 30, 2010: Chief Oren Lyons said, when speaking about Climate Change at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues…
On public values
Look everybody, it's yet more evidence that Stephen Harper has moved Canada in a conservative direction!Environment Canada staff advised incoming cabinet minister Peter Kent that Canadians believe Ottawa is too…
Huge Sand Storm Causes Power Outages, Closes Airport in Phoenix
Some incredible footage from a huge sandstorm that blanketed Phoenix Arizona yesterday. One local resident said: I have been in Arizona for 20 years and have never seen a storm…
Stephen Hawking: Human-Caused Climate Change Dire Threat To Future Of World
Renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking has stated that climate change stands alongside the use of nuclear weapons as one of the greatest threats posed to the future of…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Ian Welsh serves up some tough commentary as to whether Canadian voters saddled with unrepresentative and downright destructive governments are merely getting what…
Koch Industries: The Dirty Business Of Climate Denial
A short animation by by Australian filmmaker Taki Oldham which details the efforts of billionaire oil barons Charles & David Koch to undermine belief in climate change and prevent legislation…
The End Of Cheap Oil: An Opportunity to Create A Better World
“As a species with the creativity, adaptability and opposable thumbs that enabled us to create an Oil Age in the first place, we can be pretty certain that there will…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
An Open Letter to All Humankind Please Help Me I am thommo and I am a human being. I write this open request for help to all other human beings…
BP Is Creepy: NRDC Issues Damning Water Quality Report on Gulf Beaches One Year After Oil Disaster
The NRDC released its annual “Testing the Waters: A Guide To Water Quality At Vacation Beaches” report last week, which included a special section dedicated to oil-related closures, advisories and…
Not Everyone Has Immigrated to Harperland
Having difficulty celebrating Canada Day fully knowing only too well how the Harper Regime has embarrassed us around the world - most significantly on global warming and climate change and,…
Climate Change Denialist Outed – (along with Exxon)
Willie Soon is a darling of the climate change denialist community. He's a very rare commodity indeed - a genuine scientist with peer-reviewed studies who stoutly disputes the entire theory…
Extreme Weather Events: Brought To Us By Big Oil & Gas
Happy Canada Day! What a week it’s been on the climate/weather front. Here in northwestern Ontario we’ve been experiencing a lovely June, although firefighters say it’s the driest summer in…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Andrew Jackson points out and sums up a Statistics Canada study showing how much possible revenue is lost to the underground economy:Statscan have…
Let’s Build a Fire Under Layton and Rae
In the course of Western civilization we have a rich history of blundering into emergencies unprepared, a history that teaches us the consequences of neglect are often horrendous. In most…
Let’s get Real On Climate Change!
Many people like to point to the oil companies for the blame of Climate change, but households contribute to 45% of all emissions. That means if we wish to achieve…
Even Canada’s Military Brass Get It – Finally!
We're on the war path, the actual road to war, and it's damned well time Messrs. Harper, Layton and Rae came to their senses.Canada's Department of National Defence has run…