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How to lower your foodprint | Queen of Green | David Suzuki Foundation
How to lower your foodprint | Queen of Green | David Suzuki Foundation. Your “foodprint” — the choices you make about what you eat — can make as big a difference for the environment as how you get around. This fall, a team of Queen of Green coaches are helping a community of Canadian families go from […]
Conservationists slam plans to dump mining waste into Norwegian fjord | Environment | The Guardian
Conservationists slam plans to dump mining waste into Norwegian fjord | Environment | The Guardian. Norway’s image as one of the world’s cleanest, greenest countries with some of the finest unspoilt scenery will be tarnished if the government allows a giant titanium mining company to dump hundreds of millions of tonnes of waste directly into […]
Walking is Going Places | On the Commons
Walking is Going Places | On the Commons. Walking is going places. Humans’ most common pastime–forsaken for decades as too slow and too much effort– is now recognized as a health breakthrough, an economic catalyst and a route to happiness. Real Simple magazine (circulation: 2 million) declared “walking America’s untrendiest trend” in its February 2014 cover […]
Use and Abuse of the “Natural Capital” Concept « Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
Use and Abuse of the “Natural Capital” Concept « Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy. Some people object to the concept of “natural capital” because they say it reduces nature to the status of a commodity to be marketed at its exchange value. This indeed is a danger, well discussed by George Monbiot. […]
Why Environmentalists Love Plummeting Oil Prices
Why Environmentalists Love Plummeting Oil Prices. NEW YORK — Deepwater drilling rigs are sitting idle. Fracking plans are being scaled back. Enormous new projects to squeeze oil out of the oilsands of Canada are being shelved. Maybe low oil prices aren’t so bad for the environment after all. The global price of oil has plummeted […]
Lessons from B.C.’s carbon tax | Blog Posts | Pembina Institute
Lessons from B.C.’s carbon tax | Blog Posts | Pembina Institute. It’s been hailed as an environmental and economic “success,” a “textbook case” in carbon pricing and “on the right track” toward good economic policy. British Columbia’s carbon tax has been in place for six years, and all available evidence shows it’s working. Here’s the […]
25th Anniversary: Thatcher Tells UN Markets Must Face Limits to Prevent Climate Change | DeSmog UK
25th Anniversary: Thatcher Tells UN Markets Must Face Limits to Prevent Climate Change | DeSmog UK. Margaret Thatcher was at the height of her premiership when she took to the podium at the United Nations general assembly on the global environment held at the UN building in New York on 8 November 1989. Margaret Thatcher took to […]
What Is the Carbon Limit? That Depends Who You Ask by Fred Pearce: Yale Environment 360
What Is the Carbon Limit? That Depends Who You Ask by Fred Pearce: Yale Environment 360. How much carbon can we safely emit into the atmosphere without the planet suffering dangerous climate change? It would be good to know. The world’s governments have agreed that “dangerous” should mean any warming above two degrees Celsius. And […]
When the Shale Runs Dry: A Look at the Future of Fracking | DeSmogBlog
When the Shale Runs Dry: A Look at the Future of Fracking | DeSmogBlog. If you want to see the future of the shale industry — what today’s drilling rush will leave behind — come to Bradford, Pennsylvania. A small city, it was home to one of America’s first energy booms, producing over three quarters of […]
How you make big companies listen | Queen of Green | David Suzuki Foundation
How you make big companies listen | Queen of Green | David Suzuki Foundation. Companies aren`t required to itemize specific fragrance ingredients, not even known allergens. But with your help we brought this message to the government and companies. (Credit: Lindsay Coulter) I’m no doctor. But people often ask me, “What cream should I use […]
The Plastic Society – Moving Towards Plastic Independence
The Plastic Society – Moving Towards Plastic Independence. We all know about society’s over-consumption of plastic. We’ve heard again and again that it takes up to a millennia for plastics to bio-degrade (1), and consumers worldwide are using approximately 500 billion single-use plastic bags per year (2). And the issue of micro-plastic in our oceans […]
Canada regulator says Kinder Morgan wins battle with B.C. suburb | Canada | Reuters
Canada regulator says Kinder Morgan wins battle with B.C. suburb | Canada | Reuters. CALGARY Alberta (Reuters) – Canada’s energy regulator ruled on Thursday that Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP must be allowed access to a park in a Vancouver suburb in order to complete technical work for the planned C$5.4 billion($4.81 billion) expansion of its […]
Remembering Rick Piltz, Who Fought Government Suppression of Science – The Intercept
Remembering Rick Piltz, Who Fought Government Suppression of Science – The Intercept. Rick Piltz, a climate change whistleblower, died this weekend of cancer. Piltz revealed in 2005 that the Bush administration was revising supposedly scientific reports to cast doubt on the existence of human-caused climate change. He leaked copies of the edited documents toThe New York Times, after resigning […]
Roar II | The carbon pilgrim
Roar II | The carbon pilgrim. In a nice bit of irony, the route of People’s Climate March cut through the gaudy heart of Times Square, placing protestors under the smoky gaze of two-story tall fashion models. The contrast was delicious – and intimidating. We had marched into one of the cultural epicenters of indifference […]
Electric Power Rights of Way: A New Frontier for Conservation by Richard Conniff: Yale Environment 360
Electric Power Rights of Way: A New Frontier for Conservation by Richard Conniff: Yale Environment 360. Often mowed and doused with herbicides, power transmission lines have long been a bane for environmentalists. But that’s changing, as some utilities are starting to manage these areas as potentially valuable corridors for threatened wildlife. by richard conniff Nobody […]
