A panel of experts has been mandated to review Canada’s environmental assessment process. On Monday, Minister of the Environment Catherine McKenna presented the four members […]
Tag: climate change
When Your Soapbox is Burning, Stop Preaching: Wildfires are a Disaster. Period.
Fort MacMurray and large swaths of Northern Alberta have been burning for a few days. Homes and communities have been destroyed and people have died, […]
One Week of Sustainable Life
Now that world leaders and their negotiators have left Paris following the climate change pow-wow, the focus now shifts to the work needed to make […]
If We Can’t Protest, Then the Terrorists Win!
In the days following 9/11, then-US President George W. Bush urged Americans to go out and shop. If not, then the terrorists win. His premise […]
Montreal Climate Change March (PHOTOS)
Thousands of Montrealers braved the rains yesterday to speak up about climate change. This was one of many demonstrations held around the world leading up […]
Land: The struggle for all
It was new year’s eve 1994, through the rainforest that covers the majority of the Chiapas region of south western Mexico, a movement under the […]
The Conservative Unthinking Majority
It’s amazing how Canadians elect politicians who refuse to analyze the country’s problems, but that’s what we did when we handed Stephen Harper and his Tories a majority government. The Conservatives try and pride themselves as being the party of action
Stephen Harper’s war on the environment
It’s bad enough with all the scientific proof to the contrary that we still have climate change deniers in Canada, but I would argue having one of them as our Prime Minister makes it exponentially worse..
Canada in 2100: a milder Montreal, a dryer Vancouver, and a prairie-free Alberta
Though temperature changes of a few degrees of the earth’s surface might not sound like a lot, it will have a drastic impact on Canada’s geography. It is predicted that global climate change will result in almost 40 per cent of land-based ecosystems making changes from one ecological community type – such as forest, grasslands or tundra – toward another.
Das Klimahaus ist gut! World’s first climate change museum gives visitors the 8th degree
They say seeing is believing, but at Germany’s imaginative and revealing climate change museum, they believe experience is even better. Opened in June 2009 in the northern German port city of Bremerhaven, the UNESCO-sponsored museum is the first of its kind. The journey exhibit takes people through a range of the world’s climate zones: mountain glaciers, scorching desert, muggy rainforest and…