Jeremy Allingham heads to Johnston Heights Secondary School to ask students there about what's needed on climate change. And then Marina Melanidis speaks with Stephen Quinn about her frustration with COP26 delegates.
Editor's note: This statement by Socialist Action is useful for discussing how ecosocialists should relate to and work within the NDP. Socialist Action is a fellow participant with the Vancouver Ecosocialist Group in the Socialist Unity Assembly.
Media coverage of the planetary emergency often can't be monetized, which is one reason why it's of little interest to Rupert Murdoch and wannabe Rupert Murdochs
In advance of the COP 26 meetings in Glasgow, young climate activists Greta Thunberg and Vanessa Nakate, founder of the Rise Up Movement, issued an open letter to the media.
They urged editors to pay far more attention to the Global North's "moral responsibility to move much faster in reducing their emissions".
Climate activists are attacking the atmospheric scientist for simply stating a fact that makes the fight more urgent.
On the eve of the COP26 talks in Glasgow, the former leader of the BC Green Party — Andrew Weaver — caused a climate-community tempest when he tweeted, “1.5 degrees is not attainable. It never has been imho.”
The bylaw is sold as a way to create new rentals. Council should insist what’s built reflects real incomes.
Aproposal to rezone about half of the city for rental housing finally lands on council floor for public hearing today, Nov. 2. It has a seemingly benign title: A Bylaw to amend Zoning and Development Bylaw No. 3575 Regarding Residential Rental Tenure in C-2 Districts and New Residential Rental District Schedules.
This week, as governments prepare to head off to Glasgow, Scotland, for the UN’s COP26 climate negotiations, the B.C. government released the long-awaited update to its provincial climate plan, dubbed its “CleanBC Roadmap to 2030.”
[Note: Mine was just one of many, sometimes very eloquent, presentations to Council on the topic Future of False Creek South: Advancing a Conceptual Development Plan and Addressing Lease Expiries. The meeting extendedover three days because of the large number of presentation, (over 170 signed up to speak), and only very few were in favour of the plan. The presentations may be viewed/heard on the videos of the Council here starting on Oct.
