Climate Change

23/06/23
Author: 
Samuel Petrequin & Sylvie Corbet
Engineers walk next to solar panels at Benban Solar Park in Aswan, Egypt, on Oct. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

June 22nd 2023

Facing an audience packed with world leaders and finance officials in suits, Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate silenced the room, then made everyone listen to some uncomfortable facts.

23/06/23
Author: 
Cloe Logan
Efficiency Canada just released a paper that makes policy suggestions on how Canada could lead the way by marrying rental protections with energy-efficiency programs. Photo by Mika Baumeister / Unsplash

June 23rd 2023

In Canada, most federal energy-efficiency programs target homeowners: the Canadian Greener Homes grant, for example, offers $125 to $5,000 to install heat pumps, swap out insulation and more.

23/06/23
Author: 
Tim Smedley
Baitings reservoir in Ripponden, West Yorkshire, in summer 2022, when the total stock of water in England's reservoirs was at its lowest level since 1995. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA
June 15, 2023

While the world becomes drier, profit and pollution are draining our resources. We have to change our approach

23/06/23
Author: 
Primary Author: Mitchell Beer
European Space Agency/Flickr

June 22, 2023

A county government in Oregon is suing more than a dozen fossil fuel companies for the costs it incurred in a 2021 heat emergency that killed at least 69 of its residents, in a move that could help prepare the ground for similar legal action in Canada.

19/06/23
Author: 
Seth Klein
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau helps to install solar panels on a roof during a campaign stop in Iqaluit, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. Photo by:The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette

June 16, 2023

The federal government has tabled its long-awaited Sustainable Jobs Act (formerly to be known as Just Transition Act).

 

16/06/23
Author: 
Isaac Phan Nay
Roland Willson co-authored a policy forum asking policymakers to braid Indigenous rights into endangered species laws. Photo submitted by Roland Willson

June 15, 2023

When Ally Menzies was a child, her father made yearly moose-hunting trips to Riding Mountain National Park, about 200 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg.

Moose was a familiar part of her family’s diet, said Menzies, a wildlife conservation researcher at the University of Guelph and a member of the Manitoba Métis Federation. But when she became a teenager, the moose population started to decline. First Nations and Métis people found it more and more difficult to harvest moose in the area.

14/06/23
Author: 
Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network (CWPJN)
Dimitri Lascaris

See also: https://dimitrilascaris.org/2023/06/13/the-most-dangerous-moment-in-human-history/

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Hamilton, ON

June 12, 2023

Dimitri Lascaris’ Canada-Wide Speaking Tour

 

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