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What’s really behind the Ford government’s push to pave protected wetland in Pickering
What’s really behind the Ford government’s push to pave protected wetland in Pickering Rival developers competing to host Canada’s biggest retail warehouse, which sources say is for Amazon Roughly half of this property in Pickering, owned by Triple Group, is classed as a protected wetland. If approved for development, commercial real estate analysts say it […]
David Schindler, the Scientific Giant Who Defended Fresh Water
David Schindler, the Scientific Giant Who Defended Fresh Water Among the world’s greatest ecologists, his boreal research has touched all of our lives. David Schindler was among ‘the most important and effective ecologists and environmental scientists in history, not just in Canada. I’d like to think Canadians will understand and recognize that,’ says his colleague Bill […]
Record Warmth In Plains, Midwest?; NYC To Top 60s This Week
Record Warmth In Plains, Midwest?; NYC To Top 60s This Week About ten days ago, we penned a weather note to readers titled “”Early Spring, Winter Is Over?” – New Weather Models Suggest Warmer Weather Nears,” outlining how after a polar vortex split poured Arctic air into much of the US, wreaked havoc on power grids, but there […]
Social innovation for a just transition to sustainability
Social innovation for a just transition to sustainability At a time of climate emergency and rapid biodiversity loss, the need for transformation to a more sustainable economy and society becomes ever more urgent. Rapid change requires social innovations of different types and at different scales, Prof Fergus Lyon writes ahead of the #ISIRC2021 conference—a just transition […]
On a finite planet, maintaining endless economic growth is not a viable option
On a finite planet, maintaining endless economic growth is not a viable option Cooperative conservatism could help to get us off growth with minimum pain and maximum gain, says Richard Heinberg. — Richard Heinberg “Both the U.S. economy and the global economy have expanded dramatically in the past century, as have life expectancies and material progress. […]
Regenerative Agriculture part 3 | Working With Nature, Not Suppressing It
Regenerative Agriculture part 3 | Working With Nature, Not Suppressing It In the third and final installment in this series on regenerative agriculture, Peter Dunne explains how regenerative agriculture is about working with nature, not suppressing it. We’re often told nature and agriculture can’t share the same space. But we urgently need a paradigm shift, […]
Mass Education and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic (Part 3)
Mass Education and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic (Part 3) This is part three of a five-part essay that highlights lessons from the coronavirus pandemic which could advance the fight for a Green New Deal. Part one (published on Resilience.org here) argues that money is not scarce. Part two argues that control of government policy by […]
Guardian Promotes ‘Global Lockdown’ Every Two Years To Combat Climate Change
Guardian Promotes ‘Global Lockdown’ Every Two Years To Combat Climate Change We told you this was coming next… The London Guardian has suggested that global lockdowns will be needed every two years in order to save the planet. The outlet used the (now changed) alarmist headline ‘Global Lockdown Every Two Years Needed To Meet Paris […]
When Is Mountaintop Removal Not Mountaintop Removal? In Alberta, of Course!
When Is Mountaintop Removal Not Mountaintop Removal? In Alberta, of Course! The Kenney government plays word games as it plans to strip-mine the Rockies. Does this look like mountaintop removal to you? Coal mining underway in Elk Valley, BC, on the west side of the Rockies across from where Alberta plans similar mining. Photo by Callum […]
Declining sperm counts: Nature’s answer to overpopulation?
Declining sperm counts: Nature’s answer to overpopulation? Epidemiologist Shanna Swan projects that on current trends sperm counts will reach zero by 2045. That shocking conclusion comes from a new book by Swan and her colleague Stacey Colino. Is this nature’s way of bringing human population under control? (More on that later.) In a 2017 study Swan and colleagues looked at […]
What Lies Ahead? The Grand Solar Minimum
What Lies Ahead? The Grand Solar Minimum We are all aware of the environnmental crisis that humanity (and all life on Earth) faces, characterised by the term ‘climate change’. Much of the current thinking in the scientific community is promoting the idea that our planet is rapidly warming due to excess CO2 (carbon dioxide) gas […]
Sustainability Metrics
Sustainability Metrics There is growing evidence that agriculture and food is one of the most significant contributors to the transgression of ‘planetary boundaries’, especially in the area of greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity, soil, water, and nitrogen use. As Professor Johan Rockström pointed out at the World Economic Forum, “A transition to sustainable agriculture and forestry […]
The Climate Crisis Discriminates. Maps Tell the Story
The Climate Crisis Discriminates. Maps Tell the Story How data visualizers are helping to plan to support Cascadia’s most vulnerable communities. Next in a series. UBC researcher Michael Brauer is mapping how everything from flooding to heat to smoke will harm some communities more than others in the province. Photo via Peter Wall Institute for Advanced […]
Mass Education and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic (Part 2)
Mass Education and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic (Part 2) This is part two of a five-part essay that highlights lessons from the coronavirus pandemic which could advance the fight for a Green New Deal. Part one (published on Resilience.org here) argues that money is not scarce. Part two argues that control of […]
