Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Stefan Labbe reports on new research showing how the business-driven use of lead in gasoline resulted in large-scale poisoning in the U.S. (and in…
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Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Andrew Dessler offers a reminder that it's still possible to alter the trajectory of the climate breakdown if we take steps to stop…
The Alberta Sovereignty Act Rises Again
Alberta moved one step closer to becoming a banana republic this week. Premier Smith announced she will use the Sovereignty Act to combat the federal government’s cap on emissions by…
Electric Car Interest Is NOT Going Down
New ZEV registrations are up in every reporting province from 2023 2nd quarter to this year’s second quarter. People who say that “interest in EVs is decreasing”, are simply lying…
Building on the Floodplain
City council has allowed the builder- as it is so zoned, and they plan flood mitigation – to pursue this dream. The environmental authority, throttled
Guest post: Science versus the Alberta Minister of Hunting and Fishing
As Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government continues to flood the zone with daily news releases announcing dubious and dangerous policy changes, it’s very hard to keep up and provide measured…
three canadian mps call on trudeau government to end importation of endangered macque monkeys
Photo: Ignacio YuferaI've learned that the image of a macaque monkey that I posted was not the kind of monkey that is being illegally trafficked in Canada. That image was…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Oliver Milman reports on the warning from climate scientists that humanity has already missed the window to limit global warming to the agreed…
canadians: endangered monkeys need your help. please help them.
Photo: Ignacio YuferaAn activist friend alerted me to this a while back. I wasn't able to focus on it -- ironically, because it's something I care so deeply about. Animal…
A Damien Gillis event worth our attention
In the early days of IN-SIGHTS, I was influenced by the late Rafe Mair and his Common Sense Canadian partner Damien Gillis. November 16, a film directed by Mr. Gillis…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Ajit Niranjan reports on Climate Action Tracker's latest assessment that we're making minimal progress toward any climate commitments, while Damian Carrington reports on…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Pep Canadell and Gustaf Hegelius examine the carbon emissions from melting Arctic permafrost - finding that the near-term effects based on the release…
Recent readings
About poetry and essays from the November 2024 issue of Scientific American, the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. The publication is useful for people at all levels…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Mark Harris examines the competing pressures which will determine how a climate breakdown in progress affects our food supply, while Fiona Harvey discusses how…
u.s. voting, "trump is a symptom," genocide, and reality: further thoughts
image: self-righteousness and left activismYesterday I wrote about, among other things, why Americans should vote Democrat despite their very obvious shortcomings, blindspots, corrupt partisanship, militarism, support for the Israeli apartheid…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Mariana Lenharo discusses the arduous process of trying to recover from the trauma and destruction of a fossil-fueled climate disaster. Karl Mathiesen reports…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Tim Winton writes about the need to wake up from our fossil fuel stupor - with the role of activists being to sound…
Capturing fog
Not everything is doom and gloom at IN-SIGHTS. A story from The New Yorker's Brave New World Department is about Pavels Hedström, a Swedish architect based in Denmark. In architecture…
Everybody understands the point of the UCP’s ‘Scrap the Cap’ ads is to use taxpayer money to campaign against the Liberals
Surely everybody understands that the point of the United Conservative Party Government’s $7-million “Scrap the Cap” scare campaign announced yesterday is to use Alberta taxpayers’ money to campaign against the…