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The Environment: Increasing Waste – Crash Course Chapter 24 | Peak Prosperity
The Environment: Increasing Waste – Crash Course Chapter 24 | Peak Prosperity. Chapter 24 of the Crash Course is now publicly available and ready for watching below. Following up on the previous chapter focusing on human-caused resource depletion, the other disheartening part of the story of the environment concerns the things we humans put back into […]
Ebola Fight Sees Canadian Forces Medical Team Deployed To Sierra Leone
Ebola Fight Sees Canadian Forces Medical Team Deployed To Sierra Leone. A Canadian Forces medical team left CFB Trenton in Ontario on Saturday en route to Britain, where they’ll undergo training before deploying to Sierra Leone as part of the effort to combat the Ebola outbreak, the military said. The Forces said about 40 nurses, […]
Italy Bans Flu Shot After 13 Deaths | Canadian Awareness Network
Italy Bans Flu Shot After 13 Deaths | Canadian Awareness Network. enca.com ROME – The number of people who have died in Italy after being administered a flu vaccine made by Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis has risen to 13, health authorities said Sunday. The Italian Medical Agency (AIFA) has warned against panic and stressed there […]
The Role of Cities in Moving Toward a Sustainable Economy « Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
The Role of Cities in Moving Toward a Sustainable Economy « Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy. I encounter many young adults who are discouraged by America’s failure to respond to big issues affecting the future of Planet Earth and human civilization. They do not see much opportunity to make major changes, especially […]
California’s ‘Hot Drought’ Ranks Worst in at Least 1,200 Years – Bloomberg
California’s ‘Hot Drought’ Ranks Worst in at Least 1,200 Years – Bloomberg. Record rains fell in California this week. They’re not enough to change the course of what scientists are now calling the region’s worst drought in at least 1,200 years. Just how bad has California’s drought been? Modern measurements already showed it’s been drier […]
Stop Stephen Harper’s Assault on our National Parks | Elizabeth May
Stop Stephen Harper’s Assault on our National Parks | Elizabeth May. Unlike our current Prime Minister’s attack on climate policy and push for every pipeline and tanker in sight, this one is flying under the radar. In fact, Conservative Party talking points make great claims of having expanded the national park system. The following is from the […]
Survey shows Canadians want action on climate change | News
Survey shows Canadians want action on climate change | News. Most see B.C.-style carbon tax as part of the solution VANCOUVER — As Canada’s environment minister heads to the United Nations climate change summit this week, a survey on Canadians’ views about climate change reveals an overwhelming majority (88 per cent) want Canada to commit to significant […]
Cheers! Ontario takes action to limit water transfers within the Great Lakes basin | – Environmental Defence
Cheers! Ontario takes action to limit water transfers within the Great Lakes basin | – Environmental Defence. By Anastasia Lintner, Lintner Law and Nancy Goucher, Environmental Defence Last Thursday, the Government of Ontario filed a new regulation that, commencing on January 1, 2015, will stop diversions of water from one Great Lakes watershed to another […]
George Shultz, Reagan’s Secretary Of State, On Climate Change: “The Potential Results Are Catastrophic” | DeSmogBlog
George Shultz, Reagan’s Secretary Of State, On Climate Change: “The Potential Results Are Catastrophic” | DeSmogBlog. George Shultz, who served as President Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989, is not only willing to buck the Republican Party’s orthodoxy on global warming by acknowledging climate science, he’s outright calling for action. And he’s even willing […]
Kinder Morgan leaves Burnaby Mountain in win for pipeline protesters – Waging Nonviolence
Kinder Morgan leaves Burnaby Mountain in win for pipeline protesters – Waging Nonviolence. On the morning of November 28, after weeks of sustained protest, energy infrastructure company Kinder Morgan packed up the equipment it had planned to use in the construction of a new pipeline on Burnaby Mountain in British Columbia, and left without finishing the […]
Food Safety Modernization Act – An Assault on Sustainable Agriculture?
Food Safety Modernization Act – An Assault on Sustainable Agriculture?. The sustainable agriculture movement, and its complementary local food movement have become, over the past several years, one of the fastest growing and most concrete demonstrations of a cultural challenge to American values of consumerism, corporate power, and the belief that complex technology is always […]
‘Millions of liters’ of oil spilled in Israel, flooding nature reserve (PHOTOS) — RT News
‘Millions of liters’ of oil spilled in Israel, flooding nature reserve (PHOTOS) — RT News. A pipeline breach near the Israel-Jordan border has flooded a nature reserve in what authorities call one of Israel’s worst environmental disasters, causing large amounts of potentially poisonous gas to be released near Aqaba, raising health concerns. The Eilat-Ashkelon crude […]
Ontario’s Greenbelt is under threat | – Environmental Defence
Ontario’s Greenbelt is under threat | – Environmental Defence. Ontario’s Greenbelt protects farmland and natural areas like forests and wetlands from urban sprawl. It ensures that nature isn’t a long drive away, and protects the sources of drinking water for millions of GTA residents. And it ensures that we in the Greater Golden Horseshoe have […]
Sustainability requires that we learn to embrace change, not fight it | Ensia
Sustainability requires that we learn to embrace change, not fight it | Ensia. December 3, 2014 — Limits to growth are a fundamental and widely accepted principle of sustainability. You might even call them the first law of sustainability. Nevertheless, as ecological economist Richard Norgaard first noted, limits make a terrible metaphor for sustainability. They don’t inspire […]
2014 Likely ‘Hottest’ Year on Record, Ocean Temps Spike | Environment News Service
2014 Likely ‘Hottest’ Year on Record, Ocean Temps Spike | Environment News Service. LIMA, Peru, December 3, 2014 (ENS) – The year 2014 is likely to go down in the record books as one of the hottest years in modern history, according to estimates released today by the World Meteorological Organization. One cause is record […]
