SaskPower’s War On Solar
Today the utility described the home generation of 16MW of solar and wind power as "insignificant." The clear message: solar and solar customers are a problem to be managed. Not…
environment
Taxpayers pay for Earth’s destruction
When an industry is on a path to extinction, private investors exit and governments often step in, spending huge dollars that merely delay the inevitable. We should not allow that…
321 years into a 246 year cycle
Canada’s federal government gave $4.5 billion to Kinder Morgan for Trans Mountain after the owners had difficulty financing expansion of the pipeline. By 2020, the new construction budget had soared…
Chris Potts Nails It
Nailed it! In his latest blog post, former Town of Collingwood employee, Chris Potts writes about our council’s ill-conceived plan to hire a “climate change specialist” to add to the…
Watch These Documentaries to Better Understand SE Asia
The environmental movement is a global struggle against big corporations and corrupted governments, which means each struggle has commonalities while also being unique to its region. Over at Global Voices…
BC NDP, guardians of the environment… the corporate environment
The origin story of Stand.earth—previously ForestEthics, successor to Clayoquot Rainforest Coalition—illustrates how little has changed in recent decades. NGOs and concerned citizens are ever the underdogs when competing with governments…
American Charities May Legally Have to Divest from Fossil Fuels
Student groups have long called for their educational institutions to divest from the destructive fossil fuel industry (and ideally reinvest in renewables). This passionate demand from students has seen success…
Why care?
Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell reported experiencing an “Overview Effect”… He became profoundly aware that each and every atom in the Universe was connected in some way, and on seeing…
Canada’s Mining Industry Bullies
Canadian mining companies dominate the sector in many parts of the world. Largely unregulated, they are able to profit from weak protection for the environment, workers, indigenous peoples and human…
Rebooting Canada, eh!
Tax the rich. That would be a good start. Close the loopholes, implement capital flight controls, tax financial speculation, tax the richest 1% and the large, profitable corporations, along with…
Kolbert’s Under a White Sky
It’s World Environment Day (who knew?!), and the Independent published a collection of hopeful messages despite the world not being on track to keep temperatures below two degrees this century.…
Higher penalties for tree poaching proposed for North Cowichan forest reserve
Originally published by the https://sixmountains.ca North Cowichan’s municipal forester is recommending a series of stiffer penalties to combat a rash of tree poaching in the 5,000-hectare Municipal Forest Reserve. Shaun…
CVRD Directors Reject Call For More Water Testing at Fisher Road Recycling- Deemed Unnecessary
Originally published by the Cowichan Citizen CVRD Director-Cobble Hill, Michael Wilson CVRD says no to funding continued Cobble Hill groundwater testing CVRD committee votes against more testing of nitrate…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Robert Hiltz warns against letting the leaders responsible for preventable COVID deaths off the hook as part of an attempt to turn…
Land Reform and The Birth of A Revolution
Half of the world’s people live in the countryside. Three quarters of the people living in poverty live in the countryside. Two-thirds of the income of the rural poor comes…
Plastics are Toxic in Canada
The advertising around plastics highlights how recyclable it is, but in reality plastics are a pollutant that barely get recycled in a meaningful way (this is why the 3Rs are…
Nevada to Ban Lawns
Lawns are the manifestation of human environmental hubris, and it’s hurting all of us. Regular readers of Things Are Good know that lawns are bad for a myriad of reasons…
Suzanne Simard, Amy Adams, Hollywood, And The Six Mountains Forest
Originally published by ‘Where Do We Stand’ Suzanne Simard A few weeks after the poaching of trees in the Six Mountains Community Forest became national news, once again Canadians are…
Population Growth & The Environment
There has been a debate going on for over 50 years as to whether the primary cause of the growing environmental crisis is over-population or over-consumption. The debate still continues,…