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cheerful, huh?

Children and riot police face off in Canadian “Moms” video 4
Posted 1 week, 2 days ago The Canadian campaign Moms Against Climate Change just released a disturbing short video. And its website will grab your attention too.
CRUDE AWAKENING

The violent twilight of oil and a strategy to expose it 1
Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago An interview with journalist Peter Maass on why it doesn't matter what gas station you choose, and why oil is very bad for the people who live above it.
Ontario launches comprehensive system of feed-in tariffs 1
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago Ontario, on Thursday, launched the province's long-awaited program of feed-in tariffs in response to its ground-breaking Green Energy Act.
Welcome to America, Stephen Harper!

Activists drape Niagara Falls with banner to protest tar-sands oil 6
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
There's a 70 foot banner and activists dangling over the observation tower at Niagara Falls.
You're not from around here, are you?

‘Localwashing’ in pictures—bogus marketing at its finest 32
Posted 2 months ago
"Local" is hot, so big businesses are muscling into the game. Citgo, Wal-Mart, Barnes & Noble, and Starbucks are just a few of the giants caught "localwashing."
Prison Farms and the Future

Canada set to close important asset: its prison farms 0
Posted 2 months, 4 weeks ago
In February 2009, Canada's Public Safety Minister and the country's Correctional Service announced a planned closure of all six of the prison rehabiliation farms because "prison farms are training people in skills that are 50 years behind the times."
The three amigos take on climate change

Obama, Calderon, and Harper talk up vision for ‘low-carbon North America’ 1
Posted 2 months, 4 weeks ago
At a North American summit Monday in Guadalajara, Mexico, U.S. President Barack Obama, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper released a statement on climate change.
Signed. Sealed. Will they deliver?

ForestEthics mails Fortune 500 companies to kick off tar-sands campaign 1
Posted 3 months ago
ForestEthics has mailed letters to more than 100 Fortune 500 companies, warning that their continued consumption of fuels from Canada’s tar sands—the world’s dirtiest oil—puts their brands at risk.
well deserved!

Damning look at Canada’s tar sands tops enviro journalism awards 1
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Canadian journalist Andrew Nikiforuk won the top prize from the Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual reporting awards for his investigation of oil extraction in the tar sands of northern Alberta.
Ambition and trouble collide

Vancouver’s Olympic village aims for green, runs into problems 4
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The athletes’ village is the centerpiece of efforts to green the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. Now being constructed on an 80-acre rehabbed brownfield near downtown, the village is intended to be a whole new kind of sustainable neighborhood. The development has impressive green features, but some serious problems too.
My government dumps nuclear waste, and I cheer

Costs kill Ontario’s new nukes 4
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
Almost exactly three years ago, Ontario's government announced the construction of two new nuclear reactors to replace aging parts of our current power supply. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
Tax away, eh?

Carbon tax gets big nod from voters in B.C. election 0
Posted 5 months, 4 weeks ago
British Columbia held its provincial election yesterday, with the province’s carbon tax playing a big role—and coming out a big winner. Aside from the economy, probably no issue was more important.
Stand By Me

BC voters back carbon tax 1
Posted 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Carbon emissions met its first big electoral test this week, as British Columbia voters rewarded BC premier Gordon Campbell, who last July instituted North America's first major carbon tax, with a third four-year term.
Welcome to the Dollhouse

Don’t buy Kimberly-Clark’s latest ruse 2
Posted 7 months ago
The world's largest manufacturer of tissue products has unveiled a recycled line -- but it continues to clearcut Canada's Boreal forest to make its signature brand, Kleenex. That blows.
Myth: Unlike cap-and-trade, a carbon tax is simple, immune to manipulation, & politically palatable 44
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
A strange-bedfellows political coalition, everyone from the CEO of Exxon to climate scientist James Hansen, supports a carbon tax as an alternative to cap-and-trade. Tax proponents allege that cap-and-trade is too complicated; too friendly to financial industry tricks and manipulations; too open to loopholes, cheating, and special pleading; too weak to work.
How about water hockey?

Canadian activist warns warming could cripple winter sports 0
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
David Suzuki describes two “iconic Canadian images” already endangered by climate change -- polar bears and backyard skating rinks, like the one on which a young Wayne Gretzky learned to skate.
Hot air emissions

A roundup of notable speeches from the Sport and Environment Conference 0
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
There was some good stuff along with the cheerleading on day one at the World Conference on Sport and the Environment.
How much CO2 does a Zamboni emit?

Vancouver Olympics Committee shopping carbon offset plan 0
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Vancouver wants make the 2010 Winter Games carbon neutral, but the plan it released Monday counts on help from the private sector to make it happen.
Greening the games

Vancouver showcases preparations for 2010 Winter Olympics 0
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Eleven months from the opening ceremonies, Olympics buzz is fairly palpable, with games-related ads on the airwaves, heaps of Olympics gear for sale in souvenir shops, and construction cranes dotting the skyline.
Trailer Thrash

Reinventing the trailer park 1
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Trailer parks get a bad rap. But done right, the trailer park actually holds great potential as an eco-development model.