The Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) is an affiliation of groups with overlapping missions to improve children’s … Continue reading Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment
Canada’s favourite environmentalist, David Suzuki, pens a bio and criticizes the Conservative government for its stand on Kyoto. From the … Continue reading The Death of Kyoto?
Vol. 8 No. 04 – October 25, 2006
Science Matters
by David Suzuki
Call me a naive optimist, but I really hoped the federal government?s vaunted Clean Air Act might actually do what the name implies ? clean the air. Boy, was I wrong.
– Tory bill aimed at cutting greenhouse gases in half by 2050…
CBC
– Opposition, environmental groups clam clean air act…
CBC
– Stricter regulations might derail refinery plans says clean air
activist…
CBC NB
– PM should support ocean habitat protection…
WWF
– CPAWS welcomes Ambrose’s commitment to protect more wilderness…
CPAWS
– Mackenzie pipeline expected to double NWT emissions…
CBC North
– Greenpeace calls for mandatory GE labelling in BC…
Greenpeace
Continue reading “ElectricGreen Environmental News – October 21, 2006”
The government of New Brunswick has handed the management of millions of acre of Crown land to six multinational corporations. … Continue reading Forbidden Forest
Dear Prime Minister, The undersigned welcome your commitment to ?take actions that make a difference? on the environment. As we … Continue reading Letter to the Prime Minister – Environment groups unite on bottom-lines for new federal green plan
(Ottawa) Canadians are speaking out about climate change and how it is impacting on their lives. Today?s Climate Action Tour stop in Waterloo Ontario marks the beginning of the second half of the cross Canada tour.
?We have been overwhelmed with the response from people coming out to the events and posting on our online forum,? said John Bennett, Executive Director, Climate Action Network/R?seau Action Climat Canada (CAN-RAC). ?Shorter winters, longer summers in Yellowknife, Pests are more abundant and bigger in Edmonton, over the last 20-30 years winters have less snow on Salt Spring Island, Lake Winnipeg – the water is warmer than before with changing water levels and more algae, 350% more precipitation in Kejimikujik Park, Nova Scotia than in regular years, fish have moved off shore due to temperature changes in Nova Scotia. These are only a few of the examples of what people are witnessing.?
Continue reading “Impacts of Climate Change Felt Throughout the Country”
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species provides taxonomic, conservation status and distribution information on taxa that have been globally … Continue reading IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
The best organic food is what’s grown closest to you. Use our website to find farmers’ markets, family farms, and … Continue reading Local Harvest: real food, real farmers, real community
Strips of urban and suburban “fabric” have extended into the countryside, creating a ragged settlement pattern that blurs the distinction between rural, urban, and suburban. As traditional rural industries like farming, forestry, and mining rapidly give way to residential and commercial development, the land at the edges of developed areas-the rural-urban fringe-is becoming the middle landscape between city and countryside that the suburbs once were.
Continue reading “When City & Country Collide: Managing Growth in the Metropolitan Fringe”
Ecological economics addresses a flaw found in much economic thought — the failure to consider biophysical and social systems in analyses and equations. Ecological Economics: Principles and Applications is an introductory-level textbook that offers a pedagogically complete examination of this dynamic new field.
Continue reading “Ecological Economics: A Workbook for Problem-Based Learning”
Together with its companion Volume 191 Wetlands: Functioning, Biodiversity Conservation, and Restoration, this volume gives a broad and well-integrated overview of recent major scientific results in wetland science and their applications in natural resource management issues.
