Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Fiona Harvey writes about the perfect storm of environmental crises leaving us at risk of societal collapse. And Tim Flannery calls out…
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Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Carson Hammond and Rob Rousseau each make the case that Canada needs a left movement for change comparable to the wave of…
Dear CVRD Chairman and Directors
Dear CVRD Chairman and Directors: I realize and appreciate our busy board currently has many priorities and budgetary fires to snuff. However, one of the largest blazes on our horizon…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Robert Reich comments that Democrats who failed to recognize and respond to a rigged economic system share in the blame for the rise…
Bigger Than It Looks
I kinda feel this should be a bigger story than it has been given time for on our news. The impact on Saskatchewan will be very severe when the ocean…
Much-anticipated public engagement on future of Six Mountains about to begin
Larry Pynn is a veteran environmental journalist, Explorers Club member, and author of two non-fiction books, including Last Stands: A Journey Through North America’s Vanishing Ancient Rainforests. He lives in…
Amazon Workers Protest How Amazon Treats the Amazon
Amazon’s growth has been surprising to many, and their reach into markets seems endless. This expansion means they can greatly influence markets and the global environment. Companies like IKEA are…
Zone Vegetale
Plant Area – Do Not Remove Snow Recently seen in Saint Michel. Even appears as if someone created a ventilation system.
Cowichan Valley declares state of local emergency as intense localized flooding forces evacuations and disrupts transportation
News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 1, 2020 Cowichan Valley declares state of local emergency as intense localized flooding forces evacuations and disrupts transportation Duncan, BC – The Cowichan Valley…
We can Still Learn from Traditional Approaches to the Built Environment
In a new book about how humans build and shape the environment around us, Julia Watson, argues that traditional indigenous techniques are the most efficient. Forget techno-carbon capture, smart cities,…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Linda McQuaig points out that what normally gets claimed as a higher life expectancy arising out of capitalism in fact consists of…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Justin Nobel exposes the toxic – and even radioactive – side effects of the oil and gas industry. Reuters reports on the widespread…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Joseph Stiglitz, Todd Tucker and Gabriel Zucman write about the need for governments to bring in sufficient revenue to act in the public…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Joseph Stiglitz points out that a few gross numbers based on top-end wealth can’t change the reality that Donald Trump’s economy has…
Invasion: In an Era of Reconciliation, Indigenous Land is Being Taken at Gunpoint (2019)
The treatment of Wet’suwet’en Nation is driven by an Invasion: In an Era of Reconciliation, Indigenous Land is Being Taken at Gunpoint (2019)approach embraced and advanced by the BC Liberals,…
North Cowichan Council To Consider A Motion To Discourage Suburban Sprawl and De-Centralize Forest Management
NC CouncillorRob Douglas This week North Cowichan Council will be considering two major proposals that could have a big impact on the future of suburban sprawl development and climate change…
Expert sees need for improved viewscape policy in Municipal Forest Reserve
Originally published by sixmountains.ca As North Cowichan embarks on a public consultation on the future of the 5,000-hectare Municipal Forest Reserve — better known as Six Mountains — one of…
Capitalism and the Limits of Greening
Solidarity Brigades deploy their spotlights to project Green New Deal messages on political offices in Washington, DC on the weekend before Christmas 2018. Photo by the Backbone Campaign. The idea…
What Cities can do Right Now to be More Sustainable
People can make changes in their everyday lives to help the environment, like reusing items or simply by buying fewer things. If a bunch of people make positive changes together…
Four Days on a Train for Climate Change
Greta Thunberg sailed across the Atlantic Ocean. Surely I can ride the rails across Canada. Originally published by the Tyee By Emily Kelsall TheTyee.ca Emily Kelsall is a writer and…