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Monsanto, Big Food, and Big Ag Move to Co-opt the Organic and Regenerative Movement
Monsanto, Big Food, and Big Ag Move to Co-opt the Organic and Regenerative Movement There’s one skill that Big Food and Big Ag corporations have in abundance: taking control of every situation and corrupting it into an opportunity for profit. For example, as consumer interest in the terms “natural” and “sustainable” increased, industrial agribusiness began […]
Book and Film Expose the Illusion of “Green” Technology: “Bright Green Lies”
Book and Film Expose the Illusion of “Green” Technology: “Bright Green Lies” Technology can be and has been beneficial in many ways. Unfortunately, it’s been disastrous in others. For example, utility “Smart” Meters have been nothing but trouble for people and the environment in numerous ways including fires and explosions (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Ditto on 5G (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). […]
The Blockaders
The Blockaders As logging resisters near month eight in Fairy Creek, a judge may order their surrender. Inside their last stand for old growth. A Tyee special report. Members of the Fairy Creek Blockade occupy a logging road, preventing loggers for Teal-Jones timber company from moving into one of Vancouver Island’s last old-growth watersheds. Photo by […]
Canada, the Supreme Court hold that Carbon Tax is Constitutional
Canada, the Supreme Court hold that Carbon Tax is Constitutional In Canada, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Ottawa has the power to impose a carbon price across the country as a “matter of national concern.” This is a major win for Trudeau and he can really make sure that the Canadian economy further declines to enable […]
Between the Devil and the Green New Deal
BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE GREEN NEW DEAL We cannot legislate and spend our way out of catastrophic global warming. From space, the Bayan Obo mine in China, where 70 percent of the world’s rare earth minerals are extracted and refined, almost looks like a painting. The paisleys of the radioactive tailings ponds, miles long, […]
Texas Freeze Creates Global Plastics Shortage
Texas Freeze Creates Global Plastics Shortage First, it was a demand slump across pretty much every manufacturing industry because of the pandemic. Then a surge in demand for electronics caused a shortage of microchips, which hit the automotive industry particularly hard. Now, the Texas Freeze has caused a global shortage of plastics. The Wall Street Journal reported this […]
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 […]
