Water Privatization and Human Rights
Montreal – The Council of Canadians is condemning the Harper government for its sponsorship of an international conference of water … Continue reading Water Privatization and Human Rights
GreenHoroes – TV Contest
The big screen has enough caped crusaders saving the world from evil. Now, it’s your turn to don an eco-conscious cape and save the environment!
Produced and directed by CineFocus Canada co-founders John Bessai and Joan Prowse, GreenHeroes is a timely Web/TV crossover about smart, sexy and dynamic crusaders for the environment. You can watch some of the featured webisodes here. Continue reading GreenHoroes – TV Contest
Call for Book Reviewers – from Alternatives Journal
From our friends at Alternatives Journal. – BEST IN EcoBOOKS 2011 – Query submissions due September 30, 2010 Are you … Continue reading Call for Book Reviewers – from Alternatives Journal
Earth Day’s “2010 EcoAction Challenge”
Did you artfully revive furniture headed to the dump?Bake a delicious cake with organic ingredients?Start your own environmental club from … Continue reading Earth Day’s “2010 EcoAction Challenge”
Bring on the Electric Vehicles
There’s been a lot of hype for Electric Vehicles in the media lately (see: “Electric cars take off, quietly” from … Continue reading Bring on the Electric Vehicles
Transitions to Sustainable Development
Transitions to Sustainable Development: New Directions in the Study of Long Term Transformative Change
John Grin, Jan Rotmans, and Johan Schot in collaboration with Frank Geels and Derk Loorbach
Routledge, 2010, 381 pages.
Many citizens and decision makers are able to define goals for sustainability. Achieving these goals in practice, however, is far more difficult.
Individuals are simply one part of a larger societal system composed of knowledge, institutions, norms and behaviours, as well as physical infrastructure. Once established, these larger systems entrench various patterns of unsustainable consumption, such as food choices, mobility patterns and energy consuming lifestyles. These path dependencies constrain communities and individuals from achieving their sustainable development goals.
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Support for the development of professional standards increases as the Environment Sector expands
September 7, 2010 – With recent events such as the BP oil spill, professionals and employers worldwide are becoming wary … Continue reading Support for the development of professional standards increases as the Environment Sector expands
New study details annual bird mortality in tar sands tailings ponds
Edmonton – A study in a peer-reviewed journal, The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, to be published in early September shows annual bird mortality in the bitumen tailings ponds of northeastern Alberta – an internationally significant migratory bird corridor – greatly exceeds industry estimates. Continue reading New study details annual bird mortality in tar sands tailings ponds
Our obsession with private automobiles is unsustainable – Science Matters
By David Suzuki with Faisal Moola. Are we driving ourselves into oblivion? Or will new automobile technology save us from … Continue reading Our obsession with private automobiles is unsustainable – Science Matters
Beyond the Bubble: Imagining a New Canadian Economy
Beyond the Bubble: Imagining a New Canadian Economy
James Laxer, Toronto: Between the Lines Press, 2009, 264 pages.
“The neo-liberal system has fallen into pieces and cannot be put together again. Nor should humanity attempt it. It is time to move on to a better future.” These are the last words in James Laxer’s Beyond the Bubble. The rest of the book fills in the details of what amounts to a very interesting read for economists and non-economists alike.
This is a book of many stories. Nominally, it’s about a bubble that popped over the housing market. Laxer could have chosen other bubbles – the dot-com crash, the Great Depression – but they may have offered less rhetorical value today.
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Visit the New re-energy.ca Website!
From Greenlearning.ca and The Pembina Foundation… (from our inbox on August 27, 2010) – Thanks to funding from Green Street, we … Continue reading Visit the New re-energy.ca Website!
New Review of Building Social Business on GreenBookReviews.ca
Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs by Muhammad Yunus has recently been … Continue reading New Review of Building Social Business on GreenBookReviews.ca