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suckin' down summers first ice cream
oh it's summer and it's sunny and it's manic!
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penguinrobot |
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Housewives are Denied $100 Climate Action Dividend
A Port Coquitlam woman is being asked to jump through hurdles to get her $100 tax rebate -- but her dead mother had no such problems.
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politix_pete |
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Some Gal in Saskabush Got Gordies $100 Cheque?
A Yorkton, Sask., woman was more than a little surprised to receive a $100 climate action dividend cheque from the B.C. government this month, especia...
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politix_pete |
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'800,000 cars idling for 24 hours a day all year long'
OTTAWA -- Federal NDP Leader Jack Layton called on the federal government yesterday to halt development of a new oil sands site in northern Alberta, s...
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travelbug |
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Palin denies climate change realities on first day as McCain's running mate
What are the ramifications of a US Vice President that is willing to shrug off the scientific realities of global warming? Guess we'll find out if Jo...
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Majority hate carbon tax
But broad opposition hasn't hurt Liberals -- yet. People across B.C. are fired up about the carbon tax.
A new poll shows that 60 per cent of B.C.e...
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Nag_Champa |
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B.C. gov't fails to curb wood-burning polluters
Valley folks want rules to stop greenhouses from using cheap, hazardous fuel. You can't blame the Fraser Valley Regional District for becoming increa...
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Nag_Champa |
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A little bit of Canada has vanished forever
Huge chunks of Arctic island breaking off. OTTAWA -- Giant sheets of ice totalling almost 20 square kilometres broke off an ice shelf in the Canadian...
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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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G8 countries fail to meet climate change vows: report
BERLIN (Reuters) - None of the G8 countries have come even close to fulfilling their pledges to fight climate change with the United States, Canada an...
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Nag_Champa |
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Oak Bay's expected to become first city in Canada to let electric cars on streets
Draft bylaw will allow the low-speed vehicles to be driven freely there. The City of Oak Bay, just a hop away from Victoria, is expected to become th...
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Nag_Champa |
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Storage locker for greenhouse gas?
Scientists want to pump excess CO2 to 'honeycomb' near seabed. Vast amounts of greenhouse gases could be stashed under the ocean floor from B.C. to C...
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travelbug |
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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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Solar Taxi Stops in Vancouver on World Tour
Everywhere Swiss schoolteacher Louis Palmer drives, he manages to draw a crowd.
And he's drawn a lot of crowds.
Palmer and his now world-fam...
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cosmo_girl |
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Warning: online scammer hypes fake global warming conference
Thanks to the sharp eye of Inel who has uncovered a pretty sophisticated online scam regarding a conference in London called the 3rd Global Warming a...
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Canada's two biggest provinces sign emissions deal
OTTAWA (Reuters) - In a major rebuff to the Canadian government's plan to fight climate change, the country's two biggest provinces agreed in principl...
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travelbug |
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Canadians ready for carbon tax, says poll
OTTAWA -- Canadians are warming to the idea of paying a tax on activities that cause climate change, but they don't necessarily expect to get the mone...
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Nag_Champa |
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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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Nag_Champa |
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Waste-to-energy schemes just hype, says top scientist
Magic machines that would cleanly burn Metro Vancouver's garbage are just promoters' hype, says a retired chemistry professor.
Paul Connett, who ...
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Nag_Champa |
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Don't mess up garbage issue
It's obvious that, if we want to live in a clean environment, we have to take care of garbage we leave behind.
Metro Vancouver creates a huge amoun...
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travelbug |
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Bill will boost biofuels industry
OTTAWA -- A bill to ensure that gasoline has a minimum percentage of renewable fuel content -- a move that could end up building a strengthened biofue...
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Nag_Champa |
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Greening of the Film Industry
Pete Mitchell, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Vancouver Film Studio explains how their company has achieved Carbon Neutral st...
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Becky |
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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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Time for action not studies
The ProvinceAn announcement of yet another study into transit for the South of the Fraser has been greeted with an unusually stongly worded response f...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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Human Rights Torch comes to Vancouver May 25
Vancouver - Activists will take to the streets and focus attention on human rights abuses in China before the Summer Olympic games in Beijing when the...
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marbo |
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Is Sucking Carbon Underground Really the Way to Go?
From 24 Hours
The B.C. government is contributing nearly three-and-a-half million dollars to a feasibility project to store carbon dioxide undergro...
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VanRW |
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Clean Coal propaganda at the Democratic Convention
People attending the Democratic National Convention in Denver this week are the target of a $2 million advertising and PR blitz by a coal industry-fu...
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Arctic Ice melt media misinformation retracted
The Register reporter Steve Goddard is admitting today that his article last week on melting Arctic Sea Ice (Arctic ice refuses to melt as ordered) i...
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Capitol Hill candidates urging inaction on global warming
The science behind global warming doesn't really explain why the past models haven't been accurate, or why there are holes big enough to drive a Ma...
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Tories Give Two Thumbs Down on Liberal 'Green' Plan
OTTAWA -- The federal Conservatives open up a new front this week in their public relations war against Liberal Leader Stephane Dion's green shift pla...
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hippe_gal |
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Breakfast Quotes
Some interesting quotes from this morning's Metro Vancouver Sustainability Breakfast...
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b5baxter |
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It's Not Easy Being Green(land)
In northern Greenland, a part of the Arctic that had seemed immune from global warming, new satellite images show a growing giant crack and an 11-squa...
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Littlemore vs Monckton: Except with Facts This Time
Below, courtesy of James Taylor at the Heartland Institute, is a transcript of the debate between Christopher Walter (or Viscount Monckton, as he pr...
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It's the Sun's Fault? Hansen says: No It Isn't
In another section of his recent trip report (see westling post below), James Hansen, head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, ans...
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The Case for NOT Wrestling with Pigs
James Hansen, head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, offers this as a reason for scientists to decline public debates about climate cha...
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Monckton vs. Littlemore: To Think I Could Have Been Doing Something Useful
As might have been anticipated, the radio debate today twixt me and the tireless Christopher Walter (Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley) descended...
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Monckton vs. Littlemore? A Debate in the Waiting
The tireless British nobleman, Christopher Walter, Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, has been looking for debating partners again, most recently r...
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Monckton vs. Littlemore: A Debate in the Waiting
Update: Roy Green has accepted on Monckton's behalfThe debate airs at noon EDT on the Corus Entertainment radio network The tireless British noblema...
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Mike Mann and Lee Kump weigh in with "Dire Predictions"
Summer Reading? No, actually, Required ReadingI don't know how I missed Michael Mann and Lee Kump's new book Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Wa...
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Gil Penalosa comes to Vancouver
Walking, Bicycling and Public Spaces: Lessons from Bogota and Beyond An evening with Gil Pe alosaAugust 20, 7 pm, SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hasti...
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SFU City |
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Must-hear Lecture: Gil Penalosa
Walking, Bicycling and Public Spaces: Lessons from Bogota and Beyond An evening with Gil Pe alosaAugust 20, 7 pm, SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hasti...
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Price Tags |
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Opening Day in Beijing
HistorySilenceVoiceEarth-centred news for the health of air, water, habitat and the fight against global warming ...
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Conscious Earth |
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The Computer Models Are All Wet -- But the Skeptics are Wetter!
US and British researchers have confirmed the link between warmer climate and an increase in powerful rainstorms, according to a study that underscore...
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Why do Oragutans care about global warming?
30 years ago, the famous naturalist Louis Leaky agreed to send an extraordinary young woman named Birute Galdikas deep into the wilds of Borneo to do ...
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A Global Warming Call to Action in Virginia
Want to do something about global warming? Check out the Southeast Convergence for Climate Action that will be kicking off on August 5th in Louisa Co...
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Paris Hilton's Energy Policy [video]
So who knew Paris Hilton was an energy pundit. Outside of her platform on offshore oil, I think she hits the nail on the head. But the whole painting...
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New NASA satellite map pinpoints worldwide sea level rise
According to new data analysis from the Topex/Poseidon and Jason-1 satellites, NASA is reporting that warming water and melting land ice have raised...
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Newly identified Antarctic Killer Whales at risk
A study in the journal Polar Biology concludes that two recently discovered species of Killer Whale inhabiting the Antarctic sea are at risk due to th...
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Multiple awards for DeSmog in the 2008 Green Web Awards
Roll out the green carpet! DeSmogBlog has received 3 mentions in the 2008 Green Web Awards. DeSmogBlog was named runner-up in the Climate Change Web...
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ClimateAudit Endorses 1988 Climate Change Projections
Next to the much-(and usually falsely)-maligned hockey stick graph, one of the denier community's favorite targets has been a series of climate modeli...
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