Climate Change

09/11/21
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
Globe and hand image - A society that consumes less energy and stuff could rehumanize society and heal the biosphere.

 4 Nov 2021

We’d contract energy use by half. Shrinking consumption is the solution we can actually live with. Second of two.

[Editor’s note: Read part one of this two-parter here.]

09/11/21
Author: 
Bradley Hughes
Trees

November 7, 2021

Before the election, the BC NDP commissioned a report on old growth logging.Back then they promised to implement the report’s recommendations to halt logging in old growth forests in BC.

09/11/21
Author: 
Charlie Smith
Extinction Rebellion Vancouver demonstrators blocked access to the airport on October 25 by lying down on Grant McConachie Way. EXTINCTION REBELLION VANCOUVER

Oct. 26, 2021

The tactic worked, but will it lead to substantive changes in the way the climate breakdown is being covered?

A group of climate activists tied up traffic last night (October 25) on the main road to Vancouver International Airport.

According to Extinction Rebellion, 18 were arrested; that differed from a tweet from Richmond RCMP, which said that 20 were arrested.

09/11/21
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Hummingbird Land Defenders
MEDIA ADVISORY, Mon. Nov. 8, 2021

Unceeded Kwantlen, Katzie, and Coast Salish territory (Fraser Heights, Surrey, BC). From 10am today, Hummingbird Land Defenders will use their bodies to block tree cutting for the Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX) pipeline. The women wish to protect the mature forest and seven grand cedars, in the North Slope Buffer Park.

09/11/21
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Facebook Is Making Millions Off Lies About the Climate Crisis

Nov. 5, 2021

A barrage of new data shows just how bad Facebook's climate misinformation problem is, and how the company profits from it.

 

As world leaders at COP26 in Glasgow try to negotiate the drastic and urgent action needed to avoid total climate catastrophe, a trio of new reports shows that work is being directly undermined by Facebook’s inability to prevent toxic misinformation about climate change from pervading its platform.

09/11/21
Author: 
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

The Perfect Opening for climate meeting! Crazy, cute, and wise! Good combo!

Watch it:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaTgTiUhEJg

Oct 26, 2021

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09/11/21
Author: 
Jonathan Cook
A US-made Israeli F-35 fighter jet performs during an air show over the beach in the Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv, 9 May 2019 (AFP)

Nov. 8, 2021

Leaders at the COP26 summit have no intention of tackling the growing environmental impacts caused by their 'defence' spending

orld leaders gathered in Glasgow last week for the COP26 summit in a bid to demonstrate how they are belatedly getting to grips with the climate crisis. Agreements to protect forests, cut carbon and methane emissions and promote green tech are all being hammered out in front of a watching world.

09/11/21
Author: 
First Nations leaders

The Unist'ot'en Village and their neighbours at Gidmet'en Checkpoint are both calling for supporters who can come out and spend multiple weeks or months on the territory. 

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