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If you care about changing society, focus on strengths
If you care about changing society, focus on strengths Asking “What is wrong with our community?” will produce quite different answers to asking, “What would our ideal community be like?” Permaculture in Auroville, India, created by the Transition movement. Credit: http://www.healthesoilcsa.org. Social movements, including those opposing globalisation, environmental destruction and racism, typically start with a […]
Climate Summit of the Americas begins in Toronto
Climate Summit of the Americas begins in Toronto Kathleen Wynne, Al Gore to speak at conference Protesters blocked a downtown intersection with yarn amid a demonstration outside a major climate-change conference in downtown Toronto on Wednesday. The demonstration shut down the intersection of Front and York Streets, outside the Fairmont Royal York, where the two-day Climate Summit […]
A Clash of Green and Brown: Germany Struggles to End Coal
A Clash of Green and Brown: Germany Struggles to End Coal A recent battle over imposing a “climate fee” on coal-fired power plants highlights Germany’s continuing paradox: Even as the nation aspires to be a renewable energy leader, it is exploiting its vast reserves of dirty brown coal. The hole in the landscape that opens up […]
Bill McKibben: The Planet’s Future Depends On Distributed Systems
Bill McKibben: The Planet’s Future Depends On Distributed Systems One of the best ways to address climate change To environmental activist Bill McKibben, it’s all about math. The planet has warmed 1 degree Celsius over the past few decades and is on track to rise another 4 to 5 before the end of the century. […]
Will climate chaos reign in the Anthropocene?
Will climate chaos reign in the Anthropocene? “Far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth’s climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.” “Human civilization developed during the Holocene (the past 12,000 years). It has been warm enough to keep ice sheets off North America and Europe, but cool enough for ice […]
Two Startling Victories for Global Sanity in One Week
Two Startling Victories for Global Sanity in One Week Austerity doesn’t work. Dutch judge: Citizens are right, slash carbon emissions. Two remarkable developments in the past week that could have a significant impact in many countries are worth a lot more attention in Canada and the United States. First, a major research document published by five top […]
Energy Files: Defra report reveals extent of impacts on people living near fracking wells
Energy Files: Defra report reveals extent of impacts on people living near fracking wells People that live near fracking sites could be affected by health problems and financial hardships – and fracking might not even help climate change – a government report has revealed. The report – which was initially heavily redacted but has now been […]
Zero Carbon Emissions: The New Language Of Climate Change
Zero Carbon Emissions: The New Language Of Climate Change This is a guest post by David Suzuki. If nothing else, the G7 countries’ recent agreement to end fossil fuel use for energy by 2100 signals a shift in the way we talk and think about global warming. Previous agreements were about reducing carbon emissions from burning coal, […]
Earthcare, Literally Speaking
Earthcare, Literally Speaking A version of this essay appeared in the May-June 2015 edition of BeFriending Creation, the newsletter of Quaker Earthcare Witness (QEW), with the title “An Earth Testimony.” In light of the Pope’s climate encyclical, it seems appropriate to share more widely. From the beginning, care for the living Earth and all its creatures has been woven […]
Chicken Little Meet the Friends of Science
Chicken Little Meet the Friends of Science Canada’s leading climate conspiracy theorists, the Friends of Science, are out this week with a critique on climate change that would make even Chicken Little blush. In a press release issued Thursday, the Friends of Science state that if plans proceed to move our country away from carbon-intensive fuel sources like oil and coal, “Canada […]
Beyond the Real Time Catastrophe of Capital
Beyond the Real Time Catastrophe of Capital Dystopia Now A Pundit Takes on the Pope: “Dynamists” and “Catastroophists” In a recent column on Pope Francis’ latest encyclical, Laudato Si, the conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat says that “After this document, there’s no doubting where Francis stands in the great argument of our time….But,” Douthat elaborates, “I don’t mean […]
Why B.C. may be in for a long, hot summer
Why B.C. may be in for a long, hot summer A dry spring, a warmer than usual Pacific Ocean, and an El Niño means the hot weather could be here to stay Whenever temperatures approach 30 C in Metro Vancouver, it’s a talker. While the thermostat does get close once or twice each summer, this particular heat […]
The Delusion of Control
The Delusion of Control I’m sure most of my readers have heard at least a little of the hullaballoo surrounding the release of Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si. It’s been entertaining to watch, not least because so many politicians in the United States who like to use Vatican pronouncements as window dressing […]
