Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Crawford Kilian discusses how avoidable harms to people's health and well-being are inflicted on us as "costs of doing business". Patrick Miner et…
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The Litter That’s Killing Everything and Everyone
Four and a half trillion. That’s how many cigarette butts are estimated to be littered every year on our streets, sidewalks, parks, downtowns, parking lots, lawns, and everywhere else smokers…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Bill Henderson writes that the immense temperature increases we've already seen - and the resulting spread of extreme weather events and other catastrophic…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Bill Henderson writes that the immense temperature increases we've already seen - and the resulting spread of extreme weather events and other catastrophic…
Citing ‘uncertainty’ about Bill C-59’s environmental truth-in-advertising provision, Pathways Alliance pulls all content from its website
The Pathways Alliance, the coalition of the largest and most powerful companies operating in Alberta’s oilsands, pulled all content from its elaborate and colourful website yesterday in reaction to the…
Why capture carbon when it’s so much easier to capture a government?
As they would certainly agree in the C-suites of Calgary, why bother trying to capture carbon when you can capture a government? A Pathways Alliance banded bus in Vancouver –…
The UCP Goes Over The Top: Bill C-59
It was bound to happen sooner or later. The UCP government’s over the top reactions to anything the federal government does finally pushed it into the looney zone. On May…
House Eating Mushrooms are Good for the Planet
For the last one hundred years in North America we’ve been building low density energy inefficient housing and now we need to deal with the economic and environmental harm from…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Joëlle Gergis asks what it will take for political leaders to acknowledge and act on the science demonstrating that we’re on the…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Joëlle Gergis asks what it will take for political leaders to acknowledge and act on the science demonstrating that we're on the precipice…
Brazilian City Planting Mangroves to Protect Itself Against Climate Change
Down in Brazil there’s a city in that is increasing the size of their local mangrove forest to protect itself against raising seas and more intense storms. Mangrove forests are…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Robert Reich discusses the growing gap between the well-being of lower-income and higher-income consumers in the U.S. – as well as the reality…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Robert Reich discusses the growing gap between the well-being of lower-income and higher-income consumers in the U.S. - as well as the reality that…
Truth in advertising? Forget about it, says the UCP, assailing Bill C-59 ‘gag order’ in overwrought screed
Say what you will about Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government, you have to admire their sheer brass. Charlie Angus, the NDP MP for Timmins-James Bay (Photo: Facebook/Charlie Angus). Consider the…
Alberta could start small….
What I find remarkable about “small c-” Canadian Conservatives is how reluctant, how reticent, they are to acknowledge the economic change that is going on around them. Unlike Brian Mulroney…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Leslie Sattler discusses new research showing that carbon concentrations are continuing to increase by record amounts. David King writes about the immediate and…
Greenhouse Gases Now Count as Maritime Pollution
The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea has ruled the greenhouse gas emissions can count towards damage to our oceans. Small island nations have praised the ruling because…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Simon Torracinta reviews Branko Milanovic’s Visions of Inequality in tracing historical conversations in inequality, while pointing out the importance of identifying power…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Brian O’Boyle discusses how Ireland’s choice to act as a tax haven for the ultra-wealthy has done nothing to help its citizens. And…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – William Becker rightly argues that the U.S.’ practice of prioritizing fossil fuel donor profits over the health of the public and the planet…