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By Hook or By Brooks Richard Brooks, Greenpeace campaigner, answers Grist's questions		31 Jan 2005	InterActivist
Richard Brooks. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I am a forest campaigner with Greenpeace Canada. What does your organization do? What, in a perfect world, would constitute "mission accomplished"? Greenpeace campaigns in 35 different countries using lobbying, science, public education, markets mobilization, and peaceful protest to bring about increased environmenta ...
Topics: Canada, Greenpeace, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Next Up: Hybrid Zambonis Canada vows to get tough on vehicle CO2 emissions		18 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Next Up: Hybrid Zambonis Canada vows to get tough on vehicle CO2 emissions The greenhouse-gas emissions of cars and trucks in Canada will be cut by 25 percent by 2010, according to a duo of Canadian government ministers. In a joint interview, Natural Resources Minister John Efford and Environment Minister Stephane Dion said that they were committed to the deadline and the amount. "Are we going to ...
Topics: Canada, climate, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Power in Lumbers Small tree-harvesting operations gang up to get certified		12 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Power in Lumbers Small tree-harvesting operations gang up to get certified Many small to mid-sized forestry operations are run by folks who value the health of their trees and try their best to be good stewards of the land they own. However, getting official recognition of this fact -- in the form of being certified green by the Forest Stewardship Council, a Germany-based coalition wi ...
Topics: business, Canada, Forest Stewardship Council, logging, United States (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)

Maple Leaf Drag Canada slacking off on environmental protection		27 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Maple Leaf Drag Canada slacking off on environmental protection Canada is not doing enough to protect the environment, concluded a harsh report released yesterday by the nation's commissioner of the environment, Johanne Gelinas. "Why is progress so slow?" she asked. Mandates are in place and commitments have been made, so the culprit must be "lack of leadership, lack of priority, and lack of will," she said. The repo ...
Topics: Canada, politics (all these topics)

Like a Tundra of Bricks Arctic tundra may produce rather than absorb CO2, accelerating warming		24 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Like a Tundra of Bricks Arctic tundra may produce rather than absorb CO2, accelerating warming It's not often that drama emerges from the Arctic tundra, but there seems to be genuine excitement around revelations from a 20-year study just completed and published in the journal Nature. Researchers have long assumed that Arctic tundra would be a carbon dioxide "sink," absorbing CO2 and slowing -- at least slightly -- t ...
Topics: Antarctica, Canada, climate (all these topics)

Eww De Toilette Canadian Cities Dump Lots of Doo-Doo in Waterways		10 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Eww De Toilette Canadian Cities Dump Lots of Doo-Doo in Waterways Port cities in Canada dump thousands of tons of virtually untreated sewage into bodies of water every year, according to a new report compiled by the Sierra Legal Defense Fund on behalf of three enviro groups. Montreal, it seems, dumps 950 million gallons of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River every year. If you think that's g ...
Topics: Canada, solid waste treatment and disposal, water pollution (all these topics)

Coolin' the Gang Toronto Cools Itself with Cold Water		20 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Coolin' the Gang Toronto Cools Itself with Cold Water Starting this week, near-freezing water from the depths of Lake Ontario will bring relief to heat-stricken residents of Toronto, Ontario. A multi-million-dollar project will pump water from the lake through three intake pipes, where it will be used to cool down other water, which will subsequently be used to cool buildings in downtown Toronto; the original water wi ...
Topics: Canada, Great Lakes, water pollution (all these topics)

The Emissionary Position Canada Considers Adopting California Vehicle Emissions Regulations		12 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
The Emissionary Position Canada Considers Adopting California Vehicle Emissions Regulations If automakers do not agree to improve the fuel efficiency of cars sold in Canada by 25 percent by 2010, the country will consider adopting California's new law curbing carbon-dioxide emissions from automobiles, said Canada's environment minister in a speech yesterday. Canada, unlike the U.S., signed the Kyoto Protocol in 20 ...
Topics: air pollution, California, Canada, ozone (all these topics)

And Now for Something Completely Different		03 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
And Now for Something Completely Different In sharp contrast to the recently released Bush administration budget, Canada's Liberal Party government on Monday promised to double spending on contaminated-site cleanups, promote green technologies to increase energy efficiency, and go beyond the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol in curtailing emissions. Over 10 years, $4 billion ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, climate, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Patently Absurd GM Giant Monsanto Sues Canadian Farmer		21 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Patently Absurd GM Giant Monsanto Sues Canadian Farmer Speaking of genetic drift: The Canadian Supreme Court began hearing arguments on Tuesday in a case that has become a cause celebre for both opponents and fans of agricultural biotechnology. Agro-giant Monsanto Co. sued Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser when its patented biotech canola was found growing in his ...
Topics: Canada, environmental justice, food and agriculture, GMOs, politics, toxics, United States (all these topics)

I Am the Toxic Walrus Arctic Natives, Minding Own Business, Suffer From Our Pollutants		13 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
I Am the Toxic Walrus Arctic Natives, Minding Own Business, Suffer From Our Pollutants Toxic industrial chemicals, carried north by wind, ocean, and river currents, are polluting the traditional diet of native Arctic peoples in Greenland and Arctic Canada. The pollutants, including PCBs and up to 200 other hazardous compounds, are first consumed by zooplankton, then trav ...
Topics: Arctic, Canada, food and agriculture, health, oceans, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Come On, Everybody Else Is Doing It On climate change, other nations get cracking while the U.S. is slacking	Amanda Griscom	19 Dec 2003	Powers That Be
The recent Milan conference on the Kyoto Protocol started out with a bang -- a commotion of rumors about Russia's ratification of the treaty -- and went out with a whimper, offering no clear signal that the landmark accord on climate change would ever become international law. But one important development became clear amidst the flimflam: Kyoto-supporting c ...
Topics: Canada, climate, climate change mitigation, Japan, Kyoto Protocol, politics (all these topics)

Coming Clean Strange Bedfellows Push for Clean Energy in Canada		15 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Coming Clean Strange Bedfellows Push for Clean Energy in Canada Some of the biggest polluters in Canada are teaming up with enviros to make the case that the nation could produce as much energy from renewable sources as it now does from fossil fuels and nuclear facilities. Today, three oil companies -- Suncor Energy, BP Canada, and Shell Canada -- and four major Canadian environmental groups will release a jointly written report ar ...
Topics: Canada, renewable energy (all these topics)

L'enfant, Terrible! Truck Pollution at U.S.-Mexico Border Is Killing Kids, Study Says		11 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
L'enfant, Terrible! Truck Pollution at U.S.-Mexico Border Is Killing Kids, Study Says Hundreds of kids have died and tens of thousands have been hospitalized in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just south of the U.S. border, because of respiratory illnesses seemingly caused by air pollution, according to a five-year study released yesterday by th ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, globalization, health, Mexico, placemaking, pollution and waste, Sierra Club, United States (all these topics)

Pack Your Trunks California's Timber Appetite Spells Trouble for World's Forests		06 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Pack Your Trunks California's Timber Appetite Spells Trouble for World's Forests As California strives to protect its own forests, rising demand for wood in the state is fueling logging far afield, in Oregon, the southeastern U.S., Canada, and even Europe. According to a new report by the state Department of Forestry, California imports about 75 percent of its wood and paper products. The problem is ...
Topics: California, Canada, green living, logging, wilderness (all these topics)

Foam Call Canadian Tribes Fight Big Fish Farms in Court		15 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Foam Call Canadian Tribes Fight Big Fish Farms in Court Fish farms off Canada's west coast are under fire from native tribes that claim the big aquaculture operations are devastating the natural environment. Four tribes living in the Broughton Archipelago, off the coast of British Columbia north of Vancouver Island, are going to court to curb the spread of aquaculture, citing Canada's constit ...
Topics: Canada, environmental justice, fishing, marine life, politics (all these topics)

Blackout and Blue Enviros Fear Blackout Will Bolster Support for Bush Energy Plan		19 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Blackout and Blue Enviros Fear Blackout Will Bolster Support for Bush Energy Plan Last week's blackout in the eastern U.S. and Canada caused food spoilage, water contamination, economic losses, transportation delays, and all manner of disruptions ranging from the inconvenient to the awful. Now, environmentalists fear it might also cause a change for the worse in U.S. national energy policy. They worry th ...
Topics: Canada, green living, nuclear power, United States (all these topics)

Grid and Bear It Conservation, Alternative Energy Get Boost from Blackout		18 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Grid and Bear It Conservation, Alternative Energy Get Boost from Blackout In most of the U.S. and Canada, last Thursday's history-making blackout is little more than a memory: The lights are on, the AC is cranking, transportation systems are running, and it's business as usual. Still, some officials, including New York Gov. George Pataki (R) and Ontario Premier Ernie Eves, warned people that they might feel ...
Topics: Canada, New York, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Voluntary Service Canada Unveils $1B Plan to Address Climate Change		13 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Voluntary Service Canada Unveils $1B Plan to Address Climate Change Canada is stepping up to the plate to tackle climate change -- or at least emerging from the dugout. Prime Minister Jean Chretien yesterday unveiled a nearly $1 billion package aimed at helping the nation lower its emissions of greenhouse gases. The plan includes incentives for individuals and businesses to make their homes and buildings ...
Topics: air pollution, business, Canada, climate, energy (all these topics)

Give a Hoot, Eh?		19 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Give a Hoot, Eh? The amount of dangerous industrial contaminants seeping into Canada's environment has risen 20 percent since 1995, according to a report by three environmental organizations that compiled data from industrial polluters. The biggest increase came in discharges into lakes and rivers, which rose 37 percent, while air and land pollution each rose 9 percent. The increase in hazardous pollutan ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, health, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Muggles Get It Right, for Once		09 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Muggles Get It Right, for Once The Canadian edition of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" -- to be released later this month as the fifth book in J.K. Rowlings' phenomenally popular series -- has been printed on chlorine-free, 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper. With a first print run of 935,000 copies, this is by far the largest recycled printing in Canadian history. Rowlings endorsed the move with ...
Topics: Canada, green living, recycling (all these topics)

Canada-Do Spirit		12 May 2003	Daily Grist
Canada-Do Spirit Societies tend to measure progress in narrow economic terms -- gross domestic product, employment figures, trade deficits. Now an influential team in Canada is proposing that the country become the first in the world to measure its ecological health with the same care and precision. The National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy today is releasing a government-commissioned report that calls for Canada ...
Topics: business, Canada, health (all these topics)

Cod Gonnit		25 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Cod Gonnit The Canadian government this week banned all commercial and recreational cod fishing in an effort to stave off the absolute collapse of the species, putting an end to an industry and a tradition that have defined the country's Atlantic coast for centuries. The radical decline of Eastern Canadian cod stocks is one of the greatest environmental disasters of the 20th century, attributed to overfishing and, perhaps, subtle change ...
Topics: Canada, marine life (all these topics)

Give a Hoot		17 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Give a Hoot Pollution in North America decreased by 5 percent between 1995 and 2000, according to a report released today by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, established under the North American Free Trade Agreement. In 2000, the U.S., Canada, and Mexico released 3.6 million tons of pollution. Of that, 1.5 million ...
Topics: business, Canada, globalization, green living, health, Mexico, North America, pollution and waste, recycling, United States (all these topics)

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