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New CCC publication: Climate vs. Weather

Despite the planet’s warming climate, recently it has been rather cold in southern Manitoba. People often assume that just because the weather is now frigid, or since we had a relatively cool summer, that global warming is definitely not a problem anymore. Climate Change Connection has created a new pamphlet Hot Topic: Climate vs. Weather to address this issue by clearly distinguishing the difference between weather and climate. Continue reading New CCC publication: Climate vs. Weather

Law, Policy, and Standards

Silence of the Songbirds: How We Are Losing the World’s Songbirds and What We Can Do to Save Them and Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators

In Silence of the Songbirds, Bridget Stutchbury, a biology professor at York University, writes clearly and expressively about the dramatic declines of many songbirds. In her words, “By some estimates, we may have already lost almost half of the songbirds that filled the skies only forty years ago.” Continue reading Silence of the Songbirds: How We Are Losing the World’s Songbirds and What We Can Do to Save Them and Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators

Air and Climate

A People’s Submission on Climate Change

Ottawa – A network of leading non-governmental organizations has made a people’s submission to the United Nations on behalf of over 150,000 Canadians who have signed the KyotoPlus petition on Canada’s climate change commitments. The submission was made in light of the January 31st deadline for countries to indicate what they will be pledging to do under the Copenhagen Accord. Continue reading A People’s Submission on Climate Change

Community Stewardship and Living, Energy, Law, Policy, and Standards

Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster

In his newest book, Managing Without Growth, York University professor Peter Victor makes a convincing case that rich nations, such as Canada, can abandon economic growth as a national goal without compromising their citizens’ happiness. He suggests that helping developing nations approach the Western world’s standard of living would provide a better and safer future. Continue reading Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster

Air and Climate, Student Initiatives

Climate Change Connection at Copenhagen conference

Climate Change Connection will be able to provide live updates from the United Nations climate change negotiations in Copenhagen (COP 15). CCC’s Dean Medeiros was selected to be part of the Canadian Youth Delegation for COP 15. He will be representing Manitoba and focusing on forest climate change policy (i.e. obtaining carbon credits from reforestation and forest conservation). Continue reading Climate Change Connection at Copenhagen conference