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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Oh, Canada! More on B.C.'s carbon tax shift	Alan Durning	13 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: British Columbia, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Other carbon tax shifts A quick survey of carbon taxes outside of Cascadia	Alan Durning	12 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: British Columbia, Canada, carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics (all these topics)

That's Chilliwack Biodiesel company convinces B.C. restaurants to switch oils	Katharine Wroth	10 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, biofuels, British Columbia, Canada, food (all these topics)

Adventures in carbon pricing California continues to innovate on the climate front, but still gets smoked by perky B.C.	Adam Stein	21 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: British Columbia, California, Canada, carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

Canada, a Tax! British Columbia unveils carbon tax		20 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 5:57 AM on 20 Feb 2008 The Canadian province of British Columbia has announced it will implement a carbon tax beginning in July that could lead to a cut in greenhouse-gas emissions of about 3 million tons in the next five years. The tax is expected to bring in as much as $1.8 billion over the next three years by increasing the price of almost all fossil fuels in the province, though it's designed to be revenue neutral and won't raise ...
Topics: British Columbia, carbon tax, climate, news (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	19 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: British Columbia, Canada, carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, quotables (all these topics)

Roll On, Columbia British Columbia premier announces climate plan		01 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 3:45 PM on 01 Oct 2007 British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell has announced a vague plan for reducing the province's greenhouse-gas emissions by a third by 2020. The plan includes requiring all government agencies to be carbon neutral by 2010, factoring in employee travel; institution of a local carbon-offset provider; installation of residential and commercial smart meters to encourage energy conservation; and emissi ...
Topics: British Columbia, climate, climate change mitigation, news, politics (all these topics)

All Pact and Ready to Go Six Western states, two Canadian provinces agree to regional climate pact		23 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
All Pact and Ready to Go Six Western states, two Canadian provinces agree to regional climate pact Yesterday, the leaders of six Western states and two Canadian provinces agreed to their own regional climate pact, aiming to cut greenhouse-gas emissions to 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. The Western Climate Initiative ...
Topics: Arizona, British Columbia, California, Canada, climate change mitigation, New Mexico, news, Oregon, politics, Utah, Washington (all these topics)

Twenty-two Hours of Darkness and Two of Light California utility commits to massive solar buy, B.C. deals with oil spill		25 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Twenty-two Hours of Darkness and Two of Light California utility commits to massive solar buy, B.C. deals with oil spill Call it the light and dark sides of the energy industry: yesterday, as news spread that a major California utility will make a ginormous solar buy, a British Columbia neighborhood was drenched in crude oil spewing from a broken pipe. Related? Only ...
Topics: British Columbia, California, energy, news, oil, renewable energy, solar thermal power (all these topics)

Sticker shocker Cars are more expensive than you think	Clark Williams-Derry	20 Jul 2007	Gristmill

Topics: British Columbia, cars, Idaho, Oregon, placemaking, Washington (all these topics)

Beetle Bailiwick Warmer B.C. ravaged by beetles, haunted by dead birds		02 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Beetle Bailiwick Warmer B.C. ravaged by beetles, haunted by dead birds The flora and fauna of British Columbia, Canada, are having a rough go of global warming. B.C. forests are suffering through a massive insect infestation that's ravaging an area three times the size of Maryland. The mountain pine beetle can't survive severe cold, but milder winters (hmm, what the heck could be causing milder winters?) have con ...
Topics: British Columbia, climate, news, wildlife (all these topics)

The hundred-mile diet goes north And why we pay too little for well travelled food	Chris Schults	08 Sep 2005	Gristmill

Topics: British Columbia, food, local food (all these topics)

Take a Bough Forest meets felon in John Vaillant's The Golden Spruce	Katharine Wroth	10 Aug 2005	Arts and Minds
The old riddle goes: If a tree falls in a forest and no one's there to hear it, does it make a sound? The new one might go: If a tree falls in a forest and no one's there to hear it, is it worth writing a book about? The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant, W. W. Norton and Co., 256 pgs., 2005. John Vaillant thinks so. That's why the first-time author spun a New Yorker essay into the recently published ...
Topics: British Columbia, logging, wildlife (all these topics)

We've Got Spirit Bear, Yes We Do Photos of B.C.'s renowned -- and threatened -- Great Bear Rainforest	Ian McAllister	29 Oct 2004	Main Dish
The Great Bear Rainforest of British Columbia -- home to the legendary white spirit bear, as well as huge grizzlies, rare wolves, countless salmon, and other wildlife galore -- is one of the only remaining pristine regions of temperate rainforest left on earth. Take a virtual tour through this biological hotspot with the Raincoast Conservation Society, which is figh ...
Topics: British Columbia, Canada, rainforests (all these topics)

Forest Gumption Scientists Call for Protection of Half of B.C. Rainforest		20 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Forest Gumption Scientists Call for Protection of Half of B.C. Rainforest Almost half of British Columbia's coastal rainforest must be protected in order to maintain the health of its ecosystem, according to a team of independent scientists studying the 42,471-square-mile swath of forest on Canada's western coast. The surprise advice to preserve between 44 and 50 percent of the rainforest is the result of tw ...
Topics: British Columbia, land stewardship, rainforests (all these topics)

Famous Last Birds		23 May 2003	Daily Grist
Famous Last Birds The population of California condors is soaring back to relatively healthy numbers. Biologists have counted 222 of the birds, a tenfold increase from 1982, when the species hit its nadir with just 22 condors remaining. "This is the greatest the population has been probably since the 1950s," said Bruce Palmer, coordinator of the California condor recovery program. The $40 million federal pr ...
Topics: British Columbia, California, wildlife (all these topics)

I'm a Lumberjack and I'm O.K.?		05 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
I'm a Lumberjack and I'm O.K.? To the great joy of Canadian loggers, British Columbia's Liberal government unveiled a plan this week to streamline the approval process for forest cutting by April 2003. "The entire framework asks for a lot of trust and faith in the activities of forest corporations," said University of British Columbia forestry professor George Hoberg. Forest Minister Mi ...
Topics: British Columbia, business, logging, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Haida Ho		06 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Haida Ho In an unusual move, unhappy employees of paper giant Weyerhaeuser are siding with native inhabitants of British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands, the Haida, in their legal battle against the company. Earlier this year, the Haida sued the company for control of the islands and their forests; on Monday, a reported 135 of 155 Weyerhaeuser employees on the island allied themselves with the Haida. The workers a ...
Topics: British Columbia, business, wilderness (all these topics)

The Owl and the Pussycat		20 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
The Owl and the Pussycat A single spotted owl roosting in an old-growth tree in British Columbia won a reprieve yesterday when a British Columbia Supreme Court judge overturned permits given to the Cattermole Timber company to log the area where the tree stands. Enviros believe the province's forestry ministry gave short shrift to a warning from the environment ministry that the area is owl habitat. Their c ...
Topics: British Columbia, logging, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

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