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The Lazy Voter's Guide To Each Party's Green Platform
The Federal Election is almost upon us and already one of the key political debates of our time is being pushed to the sidelines. We sat down with loc...
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dan-froidevaux |
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Eco-Friendly Cars Cut Out Care of Limiting Legislation
Danny Epp of the Dynasty Electric Car Corporation sighs as he stares out the window of his Tsawwassen home. Parked on his driveway are seven cars that...
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hippe_gal |
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Rooftop Grow Operation Revealed!
Green Roofs - The new way to keep Vancouver Healthy, beautiful and GREEN!...
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TommyDouglas |
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Electric Vehicles: The Cheap Cheap Future
The best method to combat rising prices. A conversation with the Spokesman for the Vancouver Electric Vehicle Association (Veva) John Stonier and his...
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Vantage-Point |
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Urban Gardens Garner Good Sustainability
I'm 51 years old and I can't grow a carrot. That is a shameful thing. Growing food is the most vital skill anyone can have, and here I am, well past m...
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cosmo_girl |
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Why incinerators are the wrong and expensive option for garbage in Canada
The Globe's John Barber wrote a scathing Op-Ed on Friday about convoluted logic that convinced politicians in the Durham region of Ontario that it was...
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travelbug |
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Wear a Condom, Save the Planet?
I know that going green is the new trend (and a noble one it is) but is there nothing more we can do besides riding a bike? The below editorial fro...
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MintyPop |
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Frenzy of concern over 'threatened' polar bears contradicted by the facts
When environmentalist activists want cuddly creatures for poster purposes, nothing beats Canadian.
Forget our most endangered species like the blac...
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MintyPop |
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Provincial Gov Should Forget the Carbon Tax and Explore Tidal Energy
Martin Burger pulls his van up to the pumps on West Georgia near Stanley Park. Gas is $1.50 a litre right now, and Burger's prediction is the price wi...
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cosmo_girl |
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Energy Suckers Prepare to Pay -- BC Hydro
Ready or not, BC Hydro residential customers will see their electricity bills in a whole new light next month.
The B.C. Utilities Commission has gr...
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cosmo_girl |
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Electric cars legalized
Electric vehicles became legal on Oak Bay's streets yesterday.
The municipality became the first in Canada to allow the innovative zero-emission, b...
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Vision Vancouver Hopeful Proposes Tax to Discourage Use of Disposable Cups
A Vision Vancouver councillor wants a bylaw to stop coffee cups from stacking up in landfills.
To come in with a tax off the bat, boom, isn't nece...
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cosmo_girl |
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Rising Seas and Powerful Storms Threaten Global Security
Janet LarsenStanding before the United Nations General Assembly in October 1987, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of the Maldives, made an appeal repre...
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And we thought the foreclosure crisis was bad!
Environmental damage such as desertification or flooding caused by climate change could force millions of peoples from their homes in the next few dec...
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French Fries Help Fight Climate Change?
From 24 Hours
Cars fuelled with french-fry grease are growing increasingly common thanks to a Vancouver co-op offering biodiesel at its pumps.
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Shane_B |
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Quake Registers 6.1 Off the Northern Coast of Vancouver Island
A violent earthquake shook the ocean floor off the northwest coast of Vancouver Island, 191 kilometres west of Port Alice, B.C., early Thursday in the...
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hippe_gal |
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Jack Layton: Captain of the team to re-elect Stephen Harper
If Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper is re-elected next week as Canadian prime minister, he will owe the biggest vote of gratitude to the New D...
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Stephen Harper: the only leader in North America advocating inaction on climate change
After years in which North America was the leading international holdout against action on climate change, the continental tide appears to have turned...
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Breakfast Quotes
Some interesting quotes from this morning's Metro Vancouver Sustainability Breakfast...
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B.C. NDP demands probe of Penner's role in silencing scientists
Canadian Press via the CBC BC NewsYou may well recall that recently an old issue - the Genstar developments proposed in Mission - resurfaced with alle...
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Metro Vancouver Sustainability Summit
Metro Vancouver at the Pan Pacific Hotel Tuesday 7 October 2008I had hoped to live blog this event, but the extortionate rate charged by the hotel...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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Health Canada Report on Climate Change
Cyclingmama reports on the Livable Region BlogHealth Canada's grim report on Canadian health and climate change. This report was supposed to be made a...
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Oregon Bracing for Climate Refugees
Portland Metro Council President David Bragdon, says that mass migrations caused by climate change the potential wild card in the planning effort to...
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Harper Government Suppresses Climate Report - Now Available Here
Forest fires, drought, and increased deaths from smog, heat and disease. That is the grim scenario laid out in an important Heath Canada report of th...
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Biden – Palin: Finally, A Real Debate about Climate Change and Energy
Would she or wouldn't she? To tell from the lavish some would say obsessive coverage that preceded the vice-presidential debate in St. Louis, ...
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Biden ??? Palin: Finally, A Real Debate about Climate Change and Energy
Would she or wouldn???t she? To tell from the lavish ??? some would say obsessive ??? coverage that preceded the vice-presidential debate in St. Louis...
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We need a coalition for climate change
Please sign a new website petition on climate change at www.climatecoalition.ca ***PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY***Dear friends,I am involved with a webs...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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A video about the feedback loops likely to lead to
A video about the feedback loops likely to lead to catastrophic climate change. No, not cheery, but kinda important to know about.And just in case t...
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Price Tags |
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Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip
http://vimeo.com/1709110?pg=embed&sec=1709110Sadly WordPress cannot handle embedding vimeo but I got the link above from Architecture Week courtesy of...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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Harper...the USA is bailing out the banking system
Harper...the USA is bailing out the banking system because of ill-conceived deregulation of the banking system. Are your policies working: Overall th...
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Smoke and C02: how to spin global warming [video]
This new American News Project video nails the history of spin on global warming and tobacco: ...
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Sarah Palin puts polar bears on thin ice
The United States is drawing closer and closer to one of the most important presidential elections in many years.In particular, the scientific communi...
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Vote for Climate
Climate CrunchIt seems very clear to me that the real issue this federal election ought to be climate change. And clearly our current Prime Minister i...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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Can we change in time?
I have found that the BCEN Landwatch list serve is an endless source of leads, discussions and debate about a wide variety of issues, some of which fi...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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Greens back away from strategic voting - sort of
Canada's Green Party is backing away from strategic voting after party leader Elizabeth May was quoted last week endorsing the concept: We are too cl...
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Canadian Science Book Crosses Boldly into Politics
For Canadians, this is the best single book on our climate crisis and what we should do about it. Thomas Homer-Dixon on Andrew Weaver's Keeping ...
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Climate Change and the Presidential Debate: The Topic that Dare Not Speak its Name
All eyes were fixed on Oxford, Mississippi, this past Friday where, after a week of tumultuous activity on Wall Street and Capitol Hill, the Universit...
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Obama vs. McCain: Where Do the Candidates Stand on Science Issues?
Prying answers out of the candidates about science-related issues this electoral season has proven almost as challenging as prying interviews out of S...
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Are We Seeing Early Signs of a Planetary Croak?
Half of Europe's amphibian species could be wiped out in the next 40 years. Scientists from the Zoological Society of London say that the combined for...
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Cynical New Democrats playing into Harper's hands
Canada's New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton continues to opt for cheap partisan opportunism over sound environmental policy - most recently decry...
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It's Not Just Wall Street that Needs a Bail-Out!
The rapid rise in emissions means the world could warm faster than previously predicted, said professor Barry Brook, director of the Research Institut...
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Hyperbole and The Myth of the Fiscal Conservative
The Liberals released their 76-page platform this week, including the proposed carbon tax, to predictable ridicule from the Conservatives. Prime Min...
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Letterman on Global Warming: "We're Dead Meat" [video]
As always, Letterman puts us straight - this time on global warming: ...
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Global warming deniers aim to hold New Hamsphire back
New Hampshire Governor John Lynch has struck a climate change task force to craft an action plan with the goal of finding ways to reduce greenhouse g...
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DeSmog Number 3 in the Top Ten Global Warming Blogs
The Youth Climate Movement's blog, Its Getting Hot in Here, has released their analysis of the top 10 global warming blogs and we're very proud to se...
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White House Edits Another Memo to Minimize Global Warming
The Bush White House has once again (see here and here) edited a climate change document to delete references to adverse effects, to question certain...
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U.S. Labs Study Abrupt Climate Change
Four Horrifying Scenarios Under ConsiderationScientists from six national laboratories in the U.S. have been assigned to study the potential of sudde...
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Climate Change Deniers Deluded: UK Met Office
Anyone who thinks global warming has stopped has their head in the sand. The evidence is clear, the long-term trend in global temperatures is rising,...
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A federal election campaign about nothing
What an odd federal election campaign. We've had naked pictures of a Conservative candidate, a couple of New Democrats and another Tory dumped for dru...
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B.C.'s transit plan faces funding shortfall
CBCKevin Falcon was on the Radio 1 morning show today (no, I didn't listen) so I suppose that is the genesis of this story today. The shortfall on Tra...
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