There’s something “fishy” going on in an environmental battle that has pitted the state of Illinois and its favourite son, former Senator Barack Obama, against the rest of the Great Lakes region, including the province of Ontario.
Environment and sustainability
In less than two years, British Columbia’s Forest Service will reach an historic milestone, celebrating its 100th year of public service.
But a growing number of former and current public servants are privately beginning to ask whether the venerable institution will survive to its centennial year, and if it does, just what will be left of it.
They’ve good reason to ask, especially after a bombshell of a memo delivered to all Forest Service staff by Deputy Minister of Forests Dana Hayden on April 12.
The size of British Columbians' carbon footprint increases with income.
(Vancouver) The richest 20% of BC income earners are responsible for almost double the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of those in the lowest income group, according to a new Climate Justice Project brief from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
The findings of By Our Own Emissions: The Distribution of GHGs in BC show an increasing carbon footprint in proportion to income and suggest that global warming policies must take inequality into consideration.
This is the first in a series of CCPA Saskatchewan papers, written by Green Energy Project Saskatchewan researchers, on the options for sustainable electricity generation in the province. Future papers will consider each of the principal components outlined in the text below, explain the meaning and the relevance of some of the commonly-used technical terms (such as “baseload” and “smart grid”), and explore the policy options available to encourage the transition to sustanability.
Can World Trade Organization negotiations on environmental goods and services play a positive role in reducing climate change? This green justification for the WTO’s current round of negotiations is critically assessed in this report by CCPA research associate Ellen Gould.
The 2010 BC Budget was a disappointment on the climate action front. Even as Premier Campbell waxed poetic in the Globe about the impact of climate change on the “Spring Olympics” – with its sunny days, crocuses, daffodils and cherry blossoms making it fun for people on the street but a big mess up at Cypress Bowl – the budget offered little assurance that this government still cares.
As we enter the second half of the oil age and the first half of the climate change era, the electrification of the drive train in automobiles is being heralded as the single-most important contribution to sustainable living. Even though road traffic is only part of a society's energy footprint, auto manufacturers around the globe are working feverishly towards the commercialization of electric vehicles, including pure battery, plug-in hybrid, and fuel cell cars.
On February 25, 2010, Naomi Klein gave a lecture on the issue of climate debt, organized by the CCPA.
This was the first in a series of lectures in honour of David Lewis (1909-1981), a leading labour lawyer, life-long social democrat, a founder of the NDP and its national leader from 1970 to 1975. His grandson Avi Lewis introduced the lecture series.
The lecture series will focus on issues that were important to David Lewis: social democracy, organized labour, and income inequality.