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Youth Climate Activists Aim to Rally Support for Indigenous Land Defenders
Youth Climate Activists Aim to Rally Support for Indigenous Land Defenders The Sustainabiliteens hope to show solidarity with TMX protesters. Young activists from across Metro Vancouver will gather outside Environment Canada’s downtown Vancouver offices today in support of Indigenous land defenders. Photo by Jamin Mike. Best known for their ability to draw massive crowds in support […]
For BC’s Two Pipeline Fights, It’s Spring Forward
For BC’s Two Pipeline Fights, It’s Spring Forward TMX and Coastal GasLink face resurging opposition across the province as Trudeau invites Biden to talk climate change. People listen as protesters opposed to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project gather at a park just below a construction site at the company’s Burnaby Terminal tank farm after […]
Here’s the catch
Here’s the catch The journey of an agricultural pollutant from its source, along its flow path (often in surface water flooding across fields), to its end destination, where it has the potential to do damage to the natural environment, is an essential concern of Catchment Sensitive Farming officers (CSFOs) on every farm they advise. Understanding how pollutants […]
Governments Are Making Taxpayers Subsidize Corporate Cleanup of Oil and Gas Wells
Governments Are Making Taxpayers Subsidize Corporate Cleanup of Oil and Gas Wells Companies are responsible for dormant wells, but the public is helping foot the bill. Oil and gas companies are required to clean up their old wells. But governments have decided taxpayers should subsidize them as part of the pandemic response. Photo by Larry McDougal, […]
Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet
Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet Where is humanity going? How realistic is a future of fusion and space colonies? What constraints are imposed by physics, by resource availability, and by human psychology? Are default expectations grounded in reality? This textbook, written for a general-education audience, aims to address these questions without either […]
On The Verge Of A Global Crisis: One Bank Warns Of A “Biblical” Surge In Food Prices
On The Verge Of A Global Crisis: One Bank Warns Of A “Biblical” Surge In Food Prices Biblical, Lean, and Mean: ‘Dreams’ of an agri-commodity super-cycle Then Pharaoh said to Joseph: “Behold, in my dream I stood on the bank of the river. Suddenly seven cows came up out of the river, fine looking and […]
Zero by 2050 or 2030? 1.5°C or 2°C? Overshoot or not? Demystifying carbon budgets.
Zero by 2050 or 2030? 1.5°C or 2°C? Overshoot or not? Demystifying carbon budgets. Confused about carbon budgets for the Paris climate goals? Zero by 2050 or 2030? 1.5°C or 2°C? Overshoot or not? There is a maze of contradictory positions, claiming to be based on research evidence. But the assumptions behind much of that […]
Permaculture
Permaculture A design system that offers a radical reimagination of the possible Permaculture is a design system that mimics the patterns of flourishing ecosystems to create ecologically regenerative human societies. First developed by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in the 1970s, permaculture takes inspiration from Indigenous and ‘traditional’ agrarian practices. Mollison and Holmgren created […]
Home is not the house but where the garden is
Home is not the house but where the garden is My title is a quotation from archaeologist Francis Pryor’s book about ‘prehistoric’ Britain, but it serves well enough as a summary of the general argument in my own book about our likely global future, and the need to refocus the household from a place of […]
Is Farming the Problem?
Is Farming the Problem? Here is a story that we tell ourselves. From The Good Ancestor: “Consider the immense legacy left by our ancestors: those who sowed the first seeds in Mesopotamia 10,000 years ago, who cleared the land, built the waterways and founded the cities where we now live, who made the scientific discoveries, won […]
BC Promised to Protect Old Growth. How Is It Doing?
BC Promised to Protect Old Growth. How Is It Doing? Greens and environmental groups criticize lack of progress, but others defend efforts to make big changes. Logged old-growth red cedar in Kwagu’ł First Nation territory in northern Vancouver Island. Photo by TJ Watt, Ancient Forest Alliance. Six months after releasing a major report on managing and […]
Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche on Vaccination Policy Risks
Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche on Vaccination Policy Risks Synopsis Geert Vanden Bossche, a vaccine expert with 3o years experience, thinks our vaccination policy has a high probability of causing the virus to mutate into variants that cause more serious illness, and that people who have been vaccinated will spread the virus rather than protecting those that […]
Variations on a theme: COVID-19 mutations turn problematic
Variations on a theme: COVID-19 mutations turn problematic We pandemic-weary humans are ready to be done with COVID-19. But apparently, it is not done with us. Our conversation with a coronavirus, as I dubbed it last year, continues as a growing number of variants of COVID-19 appear across the world. Preliminary data suggest that some of […]
2019 Annual GWPF Lecture – Prof Michael Kelly – Energy Utopias and Engineering Reality
2019 Annual GWPF Lecture – Prof Michael Kelly – Energy Utopias and Engineering Reality https://youtu.be/ehjysg8WkBQ
