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Where in the World? Brazilians and Indians are the greenest, says survey		08 May 2008	News
Posted at 12:29 PM on 08 May 2008 Brazilians and Indians are the most eco-friendly folks in the world, and Canadians and Americans are the least, according to a new survey done by the National Geographic Society. Consumers in 14 countries, representing more than half of the world's population and about three-quarters of its energy use, were ranked on their sustainability in the areas of housing, transportation, food, and co ...
Topics: Brazil, Canada, China, consumerism, green living, India, news, United States (all these topics)

Say goodbye to 'cides Home Depot announces an end to traditional pesticide sales in Canada	Fawn Pattison	25 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: business, Canada, food, gardening, toxics (all these topics)

The Beetles Revolution Mountain pine beetles fueling climate change via tree deaths		24 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 9:38 AM on 24 Apr 2008 Ravenous populations of mountain pine beetles in Canada's forests are contributing significantly to climate change through killing off large numbers of trees, according to a study in the journal Nature. So far, the beetles have killed trees in over 50,000 square miles of forests in western Canada, and hundreds of thousands of square miles in the western United States. "When ...
Topics: Canada, climate, deforestation, news, scientific research (all these topics)

How Does Your Garden Grow? Ontario plans to ban garden pesticides		23 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 1:14 PM on 23 Apr 2008 Photo: Laura Gibb The province of Ontario plans to ban the sale and use of garden pesticides. The legislation would keep lawn-owners in Canada's most populous province from using more than 70 chemicals present in more than 300 products. Critics cry double standard, though, as Ontario's golf courses, farms, and forests would be exempt from the ban. If approved, Ontario's pesticide regulations will ...
Topics: Canada, gardening, green living, news, regulation, toxics (all these topics)

Bisphenol, Eh? Health Canada primed to declare bisphenol A toxic		15 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 2:43 PM on 15 Apr 2008 Canada's health department is expected to become the first regulatory body ever to declare chemical bisphenol A a toxic substance that humans should reduce their exposure to. BPA shows up in (and leaches from) hard plastic water bottles, aluminum cans, and other containers that consumers regularly eat and drink from. The chemical, which has been linked to reproductive anomalies, has come under some ...
Topics: Canada, food, health, news, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Seal of Disapproval Militant activists charged in seal protest		07 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 10:15 AM on 07 Apr 2008 Two members of the militant Sea Shepherd Conservation Society have been charged with sailing too close to a Canadian vessel while protesting the country's annual seal hunt. Capt. Alexander Cornelissen and First Officer Peter Hammarstedt face up to nearly $100,000 and a year in prison if convicted. Sea Shepherd sailors say the hunters were the antagonists; Canada's Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans say ...
Topics: Canada, grassroots activism, news, wildlife (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)

Canadians Are So Cute When They're Mad Canadians fear U.S. energy bill clause could disallow oil-sands exports		11 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 2:17 PM on 11 Mar 2008 A clause in the recently passed U.S. energy bill could be interpreted to prevent the U.S. from sourcing fuel from Canada's oil sands, putting Canadian officials all in a tizzy. Section 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act prohibits the U.S. government from purchasing alternative fuels with higher lifecycle greenhouse-gas emissions than conven ...
Topics: Canada, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, news, oil, oil sands, politics, United States (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)

Sand Boxed Canadian federal court ruling could halt planned oil-sands project		06 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 11:02 AM on 06 Mar 2008 A Canadian federal court has ruled in favor of environmental groups that sued in opposition to a massive planned oil-sands mine in Alberta. The 120-square-mile strip mine had recently been approved by a joint federal-provincial panel that found the project's estimated annual greenhouse-gas emissions of 3.7 million tons to be insignificant. Yet no justification was given for the finding ...
Topics: Canada, climate, litigation, news, oil, oil sands (all these topics)

The problem with tar sands Could Canadian oil be the most destructive on earth?	Eric de Place	28 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Canada, energy, oil (all these topics)

Canadian dispatch New Canadian budget supports dirty energy industries, disses renewables	John McGrath	27 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Canada, energy, politics (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)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	19 Feb 2008	Gristmill

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

How Crude Midwest refineries source more crude from tar sands; emissions will rise		12 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 12:39 PM on 12 Feb 2008 Emissions from Midwest oil refineries are expected to jump by up to 40 percent in the next 10 years, thanks in large part to an industry-wide trend of sourcing crude oil from Canada's tar sands. The sands produce petroleum of such poor quality that it requires more energy -- and thus more pollution -- to process it into usable fuel. The trend flies in the face of national and regi ...
Topics: Big Oil, Canada, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, oil (all these topics)

Catch Us If You Canada Canada announces new fuel-economy regs to match or exceed U.S. standards		17 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 11:41 AM on 17 Jan 2008 At the Montreal International Auto Show, Canada's transport minister announced the country will be setting new fuel-economy regulations that will match or exceed the U.S. fuel-economy standards signed into law in late December. The Canadian standards will be phased in starting in 2011 and by 2020, cars and light trucks sold in the Great White North will have to averag ...
Topics: Canada, cars, climate, news, politics (all these topics)

Myth me? Alberta premier heads to D.C. to preach the virtues of tar sands	David Roberts	17 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Alberta, Canada, energy, oil, politics (all these topics)

Sands Between Your Woes Canada oil sands not good for the environment, says study		11 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 1:34 PM on 11 Jan 2008 To absolutely no one's surprise, Canada's oil-sands operations have been given poor environmental marks in a study by green groups Pembina Institute and the World Wildlife Fund. Ten oil-sands ventures in the province of Alberta, including seven that have not yet started producing, were rated on their pollution of (or potential to pollute) the land, air, and water, as well as their ...
Topics: Canada, energy, news, oil, oil sands, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Tax On, Tax Off Canadian government rejects panel's advice to implement carbon tax		08 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 2:02 PM on 08 Jan 2008 Regarding an expert panel's solicited advice that Canada strongly consider implementing a carbon tax: The Conservative government is just not that into it. From the Archives To Have and to Put on Hold. EPA launches cell-phone recycling campaign. Mission of Mars. Reclusive candy billionaire opposes drilling near his Montana land. Let Your Commission Be You ...
Topics: Canada, carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, news, politics (all these topics)

Border in the Court U.S. Supreme Court refuses Canadian company's pollution suit appeal		08 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 5:42 AM on 08 Jan 2008 The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from a Canadian mining company in a cross-border pollution case, in effect sustaining an earlier appeals court ruling holding the company liable for pollution under U.S. law. Just 10 miles north of the U.S. border in British Columbia, the mining company Teck Cominco has been operating a smelter that from 1892 until 1994 du ...
Topics: business, Canada, international politics, litigation, news, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Canuck the Trend Canada should consider adopting carbon tax, says panel		07 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 12:53 PM on 07 Jan 2008 Canada should strongly consider adopting a carbon tax along with an emissions cap-and-trade system, a panel of experts advised the government today. The panel had been asked for advice on how Canada could meet its goal of reducing emissions by 45 to 65 percent of 2003 levels by 2050. Environment Minister John Baird put the kibosh on a country-wide carbon tax last year, but the province of Qu ...
Topics: Canada, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, news, politics (all these topics)

Go Tell It on the Mountain Canadian outdoor-goods retailer won't sell plastic water bottles		10 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 9:59 AM on 10 Dec 2007 Mountain Equipment Co-op, Canada's largest outdoor-goods retailer, has yanked Nalgene bottles and other polycarbonate plastic containers from its shelves, concerned about toxic bisphenol A leaching from the plastic. MEC -- the Canadian equivalent of U.S.-based retailer REI -- has been one of Canada's largest sellers of the bottles. Canada's health agency is currently stud ...
Topics: business, Canada, green living, news, toxics (all these topics)

Bags of coal given as party favors Fossil Awards shame obstructionist delegates at Bali talks	Youth Movement	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Bali 07, Canada, climate, energy, international politics, Japan, Kyoto Protocol, politics (all these topics)

Mountie Fair Canada sets aside huge tracts of land for protection		26 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 4:53 PM on 26 Nov 2007 The Canadian government plans to set aside 25.5 million acres of northern boreal forest and tundra as protected land, off-limits from resource development. The total acreage (hectarage?) of the protected area is 11 times the size of Yellowstone National Park -- or, in Canadian, about twice the size of Nova Scotia and more than five times the size of Prince Edward Island. sources:� Canadian Press, ...
Topics: Canada, habitat protection, news, progress (all these topics)

The cash nexus Is there really so much money in environmental devastation that it can't be stopped?	Tom Philpott	26 Nov 2007	Gristmill

Topics: biofuels, Brazil, business, Canada, energy, oil (all these topics)

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