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News from the Sierra Club of Canada (May 2008)

Sierra Club is 116 years old!

Sierra
Club was founded on May 28th, 1892 with 182 charter members, and John
Muir as first President elect. In its first conservation campaign, the
Club led efforts to defeat a proposed reduction in the boundaries of
Yosemite National Park.

Save BC’s Flathead Valley

Nestled into BC’s southeast corner is a wilderness area of global significance called the Flathead Valley.

Sometimes
compared with Africa’s Serengeti for its richness of species, the
Flathead’s rare convergence of wildlife and stunning vistas are under
threat from mountain-top removal coal mining and other industrial
development.

We can all encourage British
Columbia to permanently protect the Flathead Valley and safeguard it
from destructive coal mining in adjacent areas.

To find out more and sign Sierra Club BC Chapter’s petition.

Tar Sands Grassroots Engagement

Sierra
Club Prairie has a great new way for you to spread the word about the
Tar Sands and Nuclear Power to your friends and family! Our House Party kits
are all you need to host a social event with an environmental justice
theme! Invite your friends over for a potluck or a wine and dessert
evening, watch a video about the issue of your choice, look at images
of Alberta’s tar sands region or nuclear power, and read letters
written by those directly affected by these developments.

Then, engage in a discussion about what YOU can do to make your voice heard!

Kits include “Common Q&A” on each topic as well as “Suggested Discussion Questions” to get you going, and much more!

Click here to find out more.

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Nature and Wildlife Conservation, Northwest Territories, Yukon Territories

CPAWS welcomes next step in protecting Nahanni watershed

Ottawa – CPAWS welcomes today’s announcement by Environment Minister John Baird that lands comprising the headwaters of the Nahanni River in the Northwest Territories have been temporarily protected to enable the creation of a new national park, to be called Nááts’ihch’oh [pronounced naah-tseen-CHO]. Continue reading CPAWS welcomes next step in protecting Nahanni watershed

Business and Economics

Tax Shifting

Even corporate executives are geared up for a green levy.

Lawson Hunter

When
the chief executive officers from some of Canada’s most influential
corporations encourage government intervention to tackle climate
change, you know change is in the air. And in this case, the change
involves a tax shift, a green tax shift, that is.

In
classic economic terms, a tax shift involves the linear movement of
taxes from one source to another, or from one payer or item to another.
The Goods and Services Tax illustrates how a tax is shifted in a
straight line from producer to manufacturer to consumer. Linear
economic models, however, run counter to the cyclical nature of
ecological systems, which replenish resources to counteract the loss of
the original resource.

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