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Richard Florida at the Board of Trade
At the recent Metro Vancouver Sustainability Summit I won a ticket to a Board of Trade breakfast. I am glad I did, because there is no way I would spe...
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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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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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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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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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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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Tories plan £20bn 180mph rail link instead of Heathrow third runway
GuardianThis is really a stunning turn of events. They are, of course, talking about the Biritish Tories. And that party was almost completely wiped o...
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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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Transit plan promises plenty but pays for precious little
Globe and MailIt's d ja vu, all over againYet another massive transit plan is promised for Toronto. And once again there is no real idea how to pay f...
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Another reason I won't be voting Liberal on Oct 14
Stephane Dion launched his Green Gateway plan today. The previous link is to the pdf file, this one is to the press release.Public Transit is an...
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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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As Humans Squabble, Nature Starts to Vent!
The first evidence that millions of tons of a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere from benea...
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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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‘Total gridlock' without more bridges
The ProvinceThe BC Liberal's puppet pressure group makes some incredibly silly and easy to refute claims.For what it is worth I sent the following - b...
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Langley Township Council Report--Monday Afternoon, Sept. 8, 2008
Notes from Langley Township Council's meeting, Monday afternoon, September 8, 2008. Coun. Mel Kositsky was away.We heard from Brookswood resident D. S...
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Langley Politics Dotcom |
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Notice of Motion Coming Tomorrow
I plan to introduce this as a notice of motion tomorrow (meaning it will come back for debate next week). I'll post more on the possibilities around i...
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Langley Politics Dotcom |
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Our election is about which party can manage the economy
Jayson Myers, Special to the SunJayson Myers is president of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters.onlinePoll question: Should Canadians vote for the...
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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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It's time we paid more attention to the troubling side of two-wheeling
An opinion piece in the Province from Derek Moscato - a bike commuter himself, he says.The piece is troubling in that he really does not come up with ...
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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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Low carb living?
Urban Development Institute executive director Maureen Enser says, There's some very real questions that need to be answered if the government wants...
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Public Eye Online |
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On transportation woes: The planning void
An editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle coudl eaily be rewritten and addressed to Gordon Campbell and his greenhouse gas advisers rather than the ...
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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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McKinsey Report: $170 billion until 2020 to cool the planet
The McKinsey Institute has released a new report finding that a $170 billion annual investment from now to 2020 could cut projected global energy dema...
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Arctic tourists evacuated amid melting and unprecedented warming
If the 21 tourists evacuated from the Baffin Islands yesterday weren't convinced that we're near a climate change tipping point they are now. Accordi...
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Transforming the Gateway Project: More Important Now Than Ever
20/20 Vision BCThe following is the text from the August 2008 edition of the 20/20 Vision postcard Background: The BC Government's Gateway Projec...
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The problem with subisidies
Two articles in today's Globe and Mail look at why our governments are going wrong, in an entirely predictable way, in tackling global warming.Neil Re...
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Transport Canada rules finish off electric car
Vancouver SunAfter years of dithering, Transport Canada has now reversed its earlier decisions and has refused to certify electric low speed vehicles ...
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Where's the best place for wind power?
Generating electricity from the power of the wind is one of the many ways we can begin to wean North America off its reliance on dirty fuels like coal...
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The greenhouse effect
Earlier, we exclusively reported the Pacific Carbon Trust expects to be annually purchasing between 600,000 to 900,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissi...
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Public Eye Online |
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Fuel cell cars still 15 years away at best: study
Reuters via Environmental News NetworkThe study concluded that the best way to reduce oil consumption and greenhouse gas emissions over th...
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Climate Crisis: Roosevelt Revisited
Truthout - Andrew Simms BBC NewsNew and cautious calculations by the New Economics Foundation's (NEF) climate change programme suggest that we may hav...
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The cost of neutrality
The province government expects to be purchasing between 600,000 and 900,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas offsets annually by 2010. And it's looking for o...
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Former Royal Society Spokesperson weighs in on Ofcom's global warming swindle decision
A press release has been issued by the original complainants to Ofcom, the UK's communications regulatory office, over the Channel 4 documentary, The...
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Boreal Forest twice the size of England to be protected
The Ontario government announced today that it would permanently protect 225,000 square kilometers of Canada's Far North Boreal region. That works ou...
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Bush to Nature: "Shove It!"
The Bush administration rejected its own experts' conclusion that global warming poses a threat to the public welfare, launching a comment period tha...
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UK Guardian Video: Canada Oilsands the 'bottom of the barrel'
...the country famed for its wilderness and clean living finds itself caught between fuelling the world's oil-hungry economy and the ecological devast...
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Bush Ignores Supreme Court Order on Greenhouse Gases
The Bush administration has decided not to take any new steps to regulate greenhouse gas emissions before the president leaves office, despite pressur...
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Bush to Supreme Court: 'Shove it!'
The Bush administration has decided not to take any new steps to regulate greenhouse gas emissions before the president leaves office, despite pressur...
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Carbon Capture and Storage: An Expensive Dead End
Check out Andrew Nikiforuk in Canadian Business, offering a devastating analysis of carbon capture and storage - and a corresponding solution for tr...
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G-8's Ultimatum To Nature: 50 percent Cuts Below Current Levels! Take it or leave it!
Pledging to move toward a low-carbon society, leaders of the world's richest nations endorsed Tuesday the idea of cutting greenhouse gas emissio...
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Langley Township Council Meeting Report--Monday Afternoon, July 7, 2008
Notes from Langley Township Council's meeting, Monday afternoon, July 7, 2008.Council voted unanimously (moved by Fox, seconded by Ward) to receive a ...
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Climate Spin for Canada's Conservative Government
Yesterday the World Wildlife Fund and German insurance giant Allianz SE, ranked Canada the second to last in the G8 group of nations for its lack of e...
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The best tax is a consumption tax.
Taxing consumption is one of the most economically effective methods of generating government revenues without distorting the economy. Consumption ta...
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Canada and the United States Worst on Climate Change
So how is it that two of the world's most affluent countries are the worst climate polluters in the G8 group of nations?The World Wildlife Fund and G...
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Hey stupid, it's only 2.4 cents!
By the sound of it, the world ended as we know it in British Columbia on July 1st, when Gordon Campbell's BC Liberal Government instituted North Ameri...
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Walter Schultz |
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White House Covers Up $2 Trillion Global Warming Benefit
The White House has been sitting on a document for a year and a half now that estimates a long term savings in excess of $2 trillion through 2040 if t...
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McCain and Obama Stand United on Canada's Oil Sands
Barack Obama made headlines across Canada last week over his proposed national low carbon fuel standard. Such a proposal, if implemented, would be a...
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