Maggie Fox, a Toronto-based expert in social media, contends that when you’re building a social network, you don’t create communities, … Continue reading WorldChanging Canada: Maggie Fox interview, Part Two
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Globe and Mail Update
September 7, 2007 at 10:10 AM EDT
Although the leaders of Ontario’s three main parties are currently on the hustings trying to highlight their political differences, they’re remarkably similar in one respect: all of them are laced with traces of chemical pollutants.
Leaders from 21 Pacific Rim countries came to an agreement Saturday on how to address climate change.
The agreement, known as the Sydney Declaration, was announced by Australian prime minister John Howard.
It establishes a non-binding goal to reduce energy intensity by at least 25 per cent by 2030.
The declaration also calls for forest cover to be increased by at least 20 million hectares by 2020 as a way of combating climate change.
Environmentalists though were quick to condemn the Sydney Declaration and its goals, which the leaders termed “aspirational.”
“The world can’t afford aspirational targets. The world doesn’t have time for voluntary action. What we need on climate change is real action, real targets and real timetables,”Julie-Anne Richards, of Australia’s Climate Action Network, told CBC News.
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On June 26, 2007, the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act became law. Simply put, this law requires the federal government to … Continue reading Welcome to TakeRealAction.ca!
The Sierra Club of Canada is disappointed that Federal Environment Minister John Baird approved the Deep Panuke gas development in … Continue reading Deep Panuke Approval Ignores Environmental Impacts
Ontario’s top three politicians are awash with pollutants, from PCBs to pesticides, stain repellents to flame retardants. And it seems the party leaders are more polluted than the average Canadian, according to a report released yesterday by a Toronto-based watchdog group.
Premier Dalton McGuinty, NDP Leader Howard Hampton and Progressive Conservative Leader John Tory offered up blood and urine samples to Environmental Defence to test for 70 different chemicals, including organochlorine pesticides, such as DDT, air pollutants called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, and, for the first time, bisphenol A, a chemical commonly used in plastics.
The tests revealed the politicians carried a total of 46 pollutants in their bodies, many of which have been linked to cancer, respiratory illness and hormonal problems. All three leaders had higher concentrations of chemicals than five families tested by Environmental Defence last year.
A new Leger Marketing poll commissioned by Greenpeace reveals that 86 per cent of Quebecers support the suspension of logging … Continue reading Public supports a timeout on logging in Quebec’s intact Boreal Forest
Synopsis: Leonardo DiCaprio’s “The 11th Hour” is a feature length documentary concerning the environmental crises caused by human actions and … Continue reading The 11th Hour (2007)
We have all experienced this feeling of being overwhelmed with information from television, radio, email, web sites, and word of … Continue reading Article: Eight steps to thriving on information overload
Here is an all-in-one download for many of the popular codecs needed to decode/encode many video and audio formats, including … Continue reading The all-in-one codec
