Canada's Environmental Voice
The Cape Farewell Foundation has an ambitious mission: to bring artists and scientists together to explore the impact and future of climate change. Just as ambitious is the wide-ranging exhibition curated by David Buckland and Claire L. Sykes and headquartered at the Royal Ontario Museum’s Centre for Contemporary Culture until […]
The “Climate Change Containment Unit” (CCCU) is in action today at the site of an Enbridge emergency response exercise in North Dumfries where the controversial Line 9 crosses the Grand River. A\J got exclusive first access to the news. Arriving in a flotilla of three canoes, the CCCU joined the […]
The fifth Assessment Report (AR5) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will be released later this month, and media are already having a field day with a leaked draft. Unfortunately, they’re getting a lot of it wrong. You may have seen reports about “uncertainty,” lower temperature predictions than […]
On Sunday, I flew back to Kitchener, Ontario, after spending a little more than a week in Calgary. I’m not yet sure of the words I want to use to describe the Great Flood of 2013. I wish I could have stayed longer to assemble a bigger pile, to gather […]
You may have thought that the reason Canada has such a poor track record on climate change is due to lobbying pressure by the oil and gas industry or lack of public support. Those are contributing factors, but the real problem is this:
Looking to engage in reducing the Region’s greenhouse gas emissions, A\J attended the ClimateActionWR Community Forum at THEMUSEUM in Kitchener on March 21.
Canada is a world-class climate dinosaur. We aren’t the leading per capita GHG emitter (that is Qatar), but we may get there yet. We signed and ratified Kyoto, but ignored it for years, radically exceeded our promised emissions target and then just abandoned the agreement. We are the only nation […]
THE SCALE OF GLOBAL CRISES IS TRULY DAUNTING, making us feel helpless and incapable of affecting the course of global events. Yet the experience, knowledge and wisdom of Indigenous peoples and local communities unequivocally demonstrate that a different way of living on the planet is not only possible, but practical […]
Re-published from Green Living Online. Author Michael Pollan says everything he’s learned about food can be summed up in seven little words: “Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.”
Canadians are apologetic people. Yet, navigating the halls of the COP18 climate negotiations as a member of the Canadian Youth Delegation (CYD), the “sorry”s I gave weren’t stereotypical Canuck politeness. Instead, they were apologies of shame for the inaction of our government when it comes to tackling the unprecedented issue of climate change.
