Change Everything
If you want to make changes – in your own life, in your neighbourhood or in your world – then … Continue reading Change Everything
Who Killed the Electric Car?
With gasoline prices approaching $4/gallon, fossil fuel shortages, unrest in oil producing regions around the globe and mainstream consumer adoption … Continue reading Who Killed the Electric Car?
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world’s scientists are right, we have … Continue reading AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
DeSmogBlog
The DeSmogBlog exists to blow off the public relations pollution that clouds the climate change debate. Our mission is to … Continue reading DeSmogBlog
Nominations now open for 2006 Sustainability Awards
The Fraser Basin Council welcomes nominations for the 2006 Sustainability Awards. These awards celebrate the achievements of the most inspired … Continue reading Nominations now open for 2006 Sustainability Awards
Environment minister delivers death sentence to owls
One may be the loneliest number, but 17 is rapidly becoming one of the saddest. That’s how many Northern Spotted Owls are left in Canada, and a recent decision by the federal environment minister all but guarantees that they will be the last of their kind in our country.
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Over 650 Businesses pledge not to use Kimberly-Clark tissue products
(August 22, 2006) Greenpeace today announced that more than 650 businesses in North America and from around the world are refusing to use tissue products made with pulp from ancient forests by the Kimberly-Clark Corporation. The businesses, which were featured in an ad in the New York Times today, are calling on the company to use more recycled fiber and pulp from sustainable logging operations in its products including Kleenex brand facial tissue. The company has been implicated in the destruction of North America?s largest ancient forest, the Boreal, which is home to endangered species and essential in combatting global warming pollution.
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Federal Environment Minister Supports British Columbia Efforts to Protect the Endangered Northern Spotted Owl
OTTAWA, August 16, 2006 ? The Honorable Rona Ambrose, Minister of the Environment, today acknowledged the recent efforts by British … Continue reading Federal Environment Minister Supports British Columbia Efforts to Protect the Endangered Northern Spotted Owl
May wins Green Party leadership
Ottawa ? Green party members chose a high-profile newcomer given to splashy activism at a leadership convention Saturday. Long-time activist … Continue reading May wins Green Party leadership
Voices for the watershed: Environmental issues in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence drainage basin
Bruce Littlejohn and Gregor Gilpin Beck are the creators of this ecologically aware anthology that features the contributions of numerous … Continue reading Voices for the watershed: Environmental issues in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence drainage basin
The Last Great Sea: A Voyage Through the Human and Natural History of the North Pacific Ocean
Sockeye are disappearing, mackerel snap at hooks set for chinook, gray whales shun the coasts, common murres are quitting their colonies: the ecology of the North Pacific, writes Terry Glavin in The Last Great Sea, is being remade before our eyes. Just why North Pacific marine and coastal environments are so rapidly dying is a matter of much debate. For some fishing communities, Glavin writes, “it was the seals, it was urban development, it was logging, or the pollution of rivers, and always, it was the politicians and the bureaucrats and the Indians.”
Northern wild: Best contemporary Canadian nature writing
This provocative and illuminating collection of essays presents the most exciting contemporary voices in Canadian nature writing, including some of … Continue reading Northern wild: Best contemporary Canadian nature writing