A UN scientific panel is about to release a jarring report. We are heading for extinction. The world’s leading scientists will warn the planet’s life-support systems are approaching a danger…
Since that first time I heard Greta Thunberg, I sensed that something wonderful might be about to happen. Eventually she inspired a resistance. The school children’s revolt and then Extinction…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Rick Smith and Ken Neumann write about the importance of developing a Green New Deal that includes participation from (and protection for)…
Here, pointing out how Drawdown‘s list of emission reductions which are possible based on peer-reviewed research into current technology (which received recent attention thanks to a CNN quiz and Vox…
My past two posts have consisted of editorial cartoons featuring well-known ‘green’characters. The first depicted Kermit the frog trumpeting the very significant electoral gains made by the Green Party in…
From CNN: Lawmakers in the UK Parliament have declared “an environment and climate emergency,” making it the first country in the world to do so, according to the opposition Labour…
New research shows that global warming has been transforming our soil since the early 1900’s. The NASA-Columbia University study itself is available here. Global warming has been fueling droughts since…
From National Public Radio, NPR: A new report by an energy watchdog group says companies are betting over a trillion dollars in risky gas pipeline projects. Global Energy Monitor says…
Jeremy Corbyn, today, in the House of Commons. This should make us all disgusted with our federal parties and our petro-provinces alike. The Liberals, and their apologists, have no excuse…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Emilie Prattico comments on the need to move past an economy that generates billionaires and widespread precarity in order to ensure that collective…
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Right out of the gate, Justin Trudeau is balking at serious action on climate change. Speaking on Sunday night, Justin Trudeau, the prime minister, suggested that using federal money to…
Good. It seems the British people have done what their political caste has so far refused to do. They have concluded that the world is in a state of climate…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – James Murray highlights what climate protests have accomplished so far, while emphasizing the need to turn activism into policy change over the…
For Andrew Scheer it must have seemed like a religious revelation, of the very wrong kind. The kind born in the hell of his own making.For years he has tried…
H/t Greg Perry Still not convinced? Perhaps these letter-writers can help: Local governments all over the world are declaring a climate emergency, so stop using the neutral term “climate change”…
Gee, who knew? Despite a White House and Congress chock full of climate change deniers, the US Environmental Protection Agency has issued a stark warning to American municipalities. Get ready.…
It’s funny, with the October elections nearing, how concerned the Conservatives and Liberals are becoming about climate change or, at least, the flooding that has ravaged eastern Canada and the…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Cory Booker rightly questions why corporations are hoarding the wealth created by the work of their employees. And Richard Reeves wonders why so…
Imagine the nerve – debating climate change as a national emergency. Britain’s Labour Party intends to force a debate on the issue this week in Parliament. Labour will this week…
