Climate Change

Global clean tech opportunities abound, just not in Canada

12/11/20

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Will Dubitsky

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renewable energy image -In 2021, renewables investments, for the first time in history, will be greater than investments in the oil and gas sectors combined. Photo credit: shutterstock

September 11th 2020

Global developments suggest a Canadian migration to a green economy is critical to competitiveness. However, if one tries to find Canadian clean tech manufacturing/innovation companies listed on a stock market, one will likely come up with nearly zero, while the number of Canadian-based oil and gas firms offering stocks is seemingly infinite.

Canada has got its priorities wrong.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Climate and the City: Barcelona’s bold example puts Vancouver debates in perspective

12/11/20

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The Thorn

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The Thorn

Nov. 12, 2020

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Boris Johnson gets a surprise visit from toy cars

12/11/20

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Greenpeace UK

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Greenpeace UK

Greenpeace activists drove remote-control electric toy cars under the security gates of Downing Street

10TH NOVEMBER 2020

Two socially distanced Greenpeace activists sped remote-controlled toy cars under the gates of Downing Street towards Boris Johnson’s front door with a message: we’ll lose the race against the climate crisis unless the government phases out new fossil-fueled cars and vans by 2030.

[Watch the video!! https://youtu.be/8Knl7Xg84Hg]

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Climate Change

Protest - Revolt

Transportation

The US meltdown should wake up Canadians. If only those we’ve elected had the brains, and guts, to say it.

12/11/20

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Andrew Nikiforuk

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The Tyee

6 Nov 2020

The disheartening spectacle occurring south of the border (and I am not talking about the careful ballot counting) announces a betrayal of America by its elites combined with a profound denial of reality during the twilight of an empire.

On one side of the Great Divide stand the professional class, or the so-called urban liberal elites. They include the Obamas, the Clintons and Joe Biden, a candidate so bereft of ideas it is shocking.

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‘Hypocrites and greenwash’: Greta Thunberg blasts leaders over climate crisis

11/11/20

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Damian Carrington

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The Guardian

Greta Thunberg: ‘The climate crisis is just one symptom of a much larger crisis.’ Photograph: Jessica Gow/AP

Nov. 9, 2020

Exclusive: Leaders are happy to set targets for decades ahead, but flinch when immediate action is needed, she says

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AOC said she might quit politics, as some centrist Democrats blame progressives for House losses

09/11/20

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Kelsey Vlamis

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Business Insider

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - The Bronx native said the Democratic party has been hostile to progressive causes, like Medicare for All and the Movement for Black Lives. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images

Nov. 7, 2020

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told the New York Times in an interview that she might quit politics, depending on the hostility of her own party towards progressive causes.

"I don't even know if I want to be in politics," she told The Times. "You know, for real, in the first six months of my term, I didn't even know if I was going to run for re-election this year."

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Canadian agribusiness wants scale to measure environmental impacts, but critics are wary

04/11/20

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Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

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National Observer

Making agriculture more sustainable is a widely shared goal — but how to make necessary changes remains up for debate. Photo by Rural Health Professions Action Plan/Wikimedia Commons

November 4th 2020

Canadian agribusinesses are asking for a standardized scale to measure their environmental impacts — a request some advocates worry is little more than smoke and mirrors.

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Canada needs more resilient energy sector, oilpatch worker group says

04/11/20

Author:

Carl Meyer

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National Observer

Workers wearing Iron & Earth clothing set up solar panels. Photo courtesy of Iron & Earth / Facebook

November 4th 2020

A director at a group of oilsands workers committed to renewable energy development says the pandemic has demonstrated the need to build a better Canada that’s more equal and more resilient.

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Vancouver’s climate plan is too costly, runs risk of damaging local businesses: public policy professor

04/11/20

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Frances Bula

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The Globe and Mail

A woman wearing a protective face mask walks past the boarded up shops along Robson Street in downtown Vancouver on May 4, 2020. JONATHAN HAYWARD/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Special to The Globe and Mail

November 2, 2020

Vancouver’s climate-emergency response plan relies too much on new fees for average residents and on expensive regulation for buildings, says a public policy professor who is a member of provincial and national groups working on solutions to climate change.

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