Federal environment minister joins the real world
When I worked in the oil industry many years ago, we used to refer to those politicians, academics, media people, etc. who didn’t fully appreciate our interests as not living…
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Tomorrow on Earthgauge Radio: 24 hours of Climate Reality and the International Year of Cooperatives
On Earthgauge Radio this week, we speak with Donna Balkin of the Canadian Co-operative Association about the U.N. International Year of Co-operatives and why the co-op model places environmental values…
Our Carbon Pollution: Is It Different From Raw Sewage?
In a very short time – years or at most decades – humans will look back at our spewing of carbon pollution into the atmosphere with the same disgust and…
IEA: Idea that we have reached “Peak Oil” incorrect
A new International Energy Agency report states that the idea of “peak oil” (that the world is essentially running out of oi supplies) is false. The IEA claims that, there…
Climate predictions are getting better … and hotter
Arguably, the biggest winner on election night in the U.S. wasn’t Barack Obama, but the nerdy Nate Silver. Silver is of course the statistician who fed reams of polling data…
Obama Belatedly Calls For A National Conversation on Climate Action
In a rather lukewarm* way, at his post-election press conference today, President Obama responds to reporters questions about Hurricane Sandy and the need to take action on climate change. His…
Eventually people will have to get it through their heads that…
Eventually people will have to get it through their heads that cleaner alternative energy isn’t just for tree-hugging hippies. Eventually these energy sources — along with energy conservation, reducing/re-using other…
America’s Top Scientists Warn America’s Top Generals
America's top scientific research group, the National Research Council, has warned that nation's military and intelligence agencies that global warming will be placing new strains on the way they operate…
Earthgauge Radio November 9, 2012: Elizabeth May, Obama re-election and Hurricane Sandy
On Earthgauge Radio this week, we take a look back at the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, consider the environmental implications of President Obama’s re-election in the U.S. and catch up…
False Flags and Vapour Trails: Reflections on Conspiracy Theory
Yesterday, I attended a talk here in Vancouver by author and activist Yves Engler, promoting his latest book The Ugly Canadian: Stephen Harper’s Foreign Policy. While the talk was very…
Hurricane Sandy “More Scary Than 9/11,Because You Get The Feeling It Could Happen Again & Again & Again”
Colin Beavan, aka “No Impact Man“, lives in New York City and wrote this thoughtful response to experiencing Hurricane Sandy last week (bold type added): Dear friends, I don’t say…
U.S. military is the single biggest oil user in the world.
U.S. military is the single biggest oil user in the world. As both Obama and Romney continue to support this inherent institution of violence, reducing the use of fossil fuel…
It’s Global Warming Stupid! That Is The Word From Bloomberg Businessweek
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes – Political Blogger It is Climate change! No it is not it is Global Warming, I tell you! Climate Change, Global Warming, Climate Change, Global Warming- make…
Arctic “death spiral” leaves climate scientists shocked and worried
A truly disturbing article (yet again!) this morning from the Vancouver Observer. Here are some of the words climate scientists have been using recently to describe the recent, unprecedented decline…
It’s global warming, stupid…
I love this… Especially the quote: Our cover story this week may generate controversy, but only among the stupid (6) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Earthgauge Radio November 1, 2012: PowerShift 2012 featuring Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben
Download: earthgauge-podcast-nov-1-2012.mp3 On Earthgauge Radio this week, we’ll be featuring a wrap-up of the recent PowerShift 2012 conference, which took place over the past weekend in Ottawa and Gatineau. I…
Wakeup Call for Business Community?
From the very heart of the business community comes the magazine cover of the year. Get it, Big Oil?
This is Just the Beginning of the Hurricane Season!
This is not the end of the hurricane season, just the beginning. The Corporate agenda has dominated worldwide for longer than the earth and all inhabitants and species can tolerate.…
Tomorrow on Earthgauge Radio: PowerShift 2012! Featuring Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben
Happy Halloween! On Earthgauge Radio this week, a huge youth conference climate conference took place in Ottawa and Gatineau this past weekend called PowerShift 2012. This was an historic gathering…
Trick, Not Treat, For Canadians: Harper’s Scary Canada-China Trade Deal
It’s All Hallows’ Eve, the time that creatures of darkness are said to come out and haunt humans. That is certainly true in Ottawa today, as Stephen Harper and his…