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Carbon pricing can be confusing. Simply put, it’s designed to increase costs of burning polluting…
It’s not a stretch to say the fossil fuel industry rules the world. From its…
As scientists warn that we’ve pushed the planet “well outside the safe operating space for…
If you understand that the climate crisis is a serious challenge and believe governments, industry…
The world is on fire. Sometimes it seems not enough people care. We’re still electing…
In the effort to limit and reverse the worsening impacts of global heating, the immediate…
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions to keep the world from heating to catastrophic levels is entirely…
How can a bank for wealthy venture capitalists, tech bros and people such as ultraconservative billionaire…
Resolving the climate crisis is a challenge — but not for lack of solutions. What’s…
Going boating is one of the most enjoyable ways to spend time on the water.…
Cooking with gas has some advantages over cooking on conventional electric stoves, as gas stoves…
As the 27th UN climate conference of the parties (COP27) wraps up, we can’t lose…
This summer, a Fortis BC booth at a Vancouver farmers market displayed the slogan, “Natural…
Ecojustice is supporting six members of the public in a complaint to the competition bureau…
In Canada and many places worldwide, those who pollute the atmosphere must pay. By putting…
The lineage of our human species has survived for several million years thanks to a…
Over the decades that I and others have been warning about the consequences of burning…
The longer we put off seriously addressing climate disruption’s causes, the more we’ll have to…
When politicians and fossil-fuelled media seize on a few ill-chosen words I or other environmental…
What’s the best way to respond to a “code red”? Recent research is testing us…
If world representatives at the UN climate conference in Glasgow put talk into action, we…
Humanity seems to be teetering on the brink. On one hand, we know that rapidly…
Protecting the air, water, soil, ecosystems and biodiversity that make human life possible shouldn’t be…
There’s little in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report that we didn’t already…
Around the turn of this century, hydrogen was big, especially in B.C. We were testing hydrogen…
Oil giant ExxonMobil’s leaders have a long history of doing everything to keep the world from addressing…
One long-held excuse for not getting off oil, gas and coal faster is that energy…
Thirty-three years ago, NASA scientist James Hansen told a U.S. congressional committee the agency was 99 per…
In 1970, to make the world safer from humanity’s worst self-destructive impulses, most nations joined…
We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reimagine our communities, economy and our own lives to…
That anyone today could deny the overwhelming and incontrovertible evidence for human-caused climate disruption is…
Another year, another record. Even with a global seven per cent drop in fossil fuel…
As was demonstrated in the U.S. last week, many who are motivated by fear and…
Within a year, Carlsberg Beer and Coca-Cola will transition to plant-based bottles that break down.…
Almost every product and material we refer to as “plastic” is made from fossil fuels.…
Too many adults become complacent, unwilling to even imagine making sacrifices for their children and grandchildren — even though many changes required to bring emissions and warming under control would confer numerous benefits, from healthier diets to reduced pollution to greater employment and economic opportunities in clean energy.
In a 1965 speech to members, American Petroleum Institute president Frank Ikard outlined the findings…
Global warming isn’t a partisan issue — or it shouldn’t be. The many experts issuing…
The U.S. president may think global warming is a hoax perpetrated by China, but his…
One of the world’s best-known climate scientists is discouraged that almost 40 years of study…
My parents were born in Vancouver — Dad in 1909, Mom in 1911 — and…
In their efforts to discredit renewable energy and support continued fossil fuel burning, many anti-environmentalists have circulated a dual image purporting to compare a lithium mine with an oilsands operation. It illustrates the level of dishonesty to which some will stoop to keep us on our current polluting, climate-disrupting path (although in some cases it could be ignorance).
In their efforts to discredit renewable energy and support continued fossil fuel burning, many anti-environmentalists…
August 2 was Earth Overshoot Day. Unlike Earth Day or Canada Day, it’s not a time to celebrate. As the Earth Overshoot Day website explains, it marks the time when “we will have used more from nature than our planet can renew in the whole year.” That is the definition of unsustainable and means we’re using up the biological capital that should be our children’s legacy. We would require 1.7 Earths to meet our current annual demands sustainably.