Environmental Groups

Almost two dozen Canadian environment groups are urging the federal Liberal government to make sure its next budget acknowledges that climate change is costing the country hundreds of millions of dollars every year.

The groups are releasing their annual Green Budget document today calling for money for green skills training, funds to retrofit transport trucks with fuel-saving devices and a massive increase in spending on global climate mitigation projects.

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Last chance to stop Trans Mountain in court

08/09/19

Author:

Kai Nagata - Dogwood BC

If this was a game of hockey, we’d be down to an overtime shootout.

A federal judge has Zambonied a narrow strip of ice for the players to skate on, and six Indigenous legal teams will get to take a shot.

It’s time for the home crowd to stand up and root for them. Please join me in making a donation to the First Nations challenging this toxic, dangerous oil tanker expansion on behalf of all of us.

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First Nations prepared for 'long road ahead' appealing Trans Mountain pipeline decision

05/09/19

Author:

Stephanie Wood

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National Observer

Chief Lee Spahan of Coldwater Indian Band celebrating on Aug. 30, 2018, when the Supreme Court overturned the Liberals' first TMX approval. Photo by Michael Ruffolo

September 4th 2019

Chief Lee Spahan from Coldwater Indian Band was happy to hear the news: the Federal Court of Appeal will hear his nation’s legal challenge against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

But he said there is still “a long road ahead.”

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The Question of Climate Change and the Rise of Eco-fascism - Two Views

27/08/19

Author:

Louis Proyect; Alexandra Minna Stern

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Counterpunch

[Editor: Below are two articles with differing points of view on the topic of climate change and the rise of eco-fascism]

1. Could Climate Catastrophe Lead to Ecofascism?

By Alexandra Minna Stern

Aug. 25, 2019

https://truthout.org/articles/could-climate-catastrophe-lead-to-ecofascism/

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Vancouver chapter of Extinction Rebellion ups the ante in the fight against a climate catastrophe

13/08/19

Author:

Charlie Smith

Link:

Georgia Straight

Capilano University student Grace Grignon says that she was attracted to Extinction Rebellion because it's taking a "different and stronger approach" than other groups.

Last night, I was curious to learn more about Extinction Rebellion, a global climate-justice movement with chapters in British Columbia.

Founded last year, it's been the talk of the U.K. and, more recently, Australia, for its peaceful, direct actions that disrupt the establishment.

In many respects, the Extinction Rebellion protests are reminiscent of the U.S. civil rights movement or Mahatma Gandhi's efforts to get the British to leave India.

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Stopping Climate Change Will Never Be “Good Business” - Review of Falter by Bill McKibben (Henry Holt and Co., 2019).

13/08/19

Author:

Paul Fleckenstein

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Jacobin Magazine

Bill McKibben accepts the EMA Lifetime Achievement Award onstage during the 23rd Annual Environmental Media Awards at Warner Bros. Studios on October 19, 2013 in Burbank, California. (Michael Buckner / Getty Images)

Climate activist and writer Bill McKibben's new book is an excellent account of how urgent the climate crisis in front of us is. But it stumbles in trying to prescribe green capitalist solutions to a problem that requires systematic change.

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Climate Change

Environmental Groups

USA

Unions vs. Environmentalists or Unions and Environmentalists? - Jobs, the Environment, and a Planet in Crisis

07/08/19

Author:

Aviva Chomsky

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Common Dreams

Despite challenges from parts of both the labor and the environmental movements, which its sponsors had undoubtedly hoped would be among its strongest supporters, Markey and Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal resolution has gone a remarkably long way toward putting a genuine discussion of what an effective and just climate policy might look like in the public arena for the first time. (Photo: Emelia Gold)

This article contains some rare information and analysis about U.S. unions' positions on the Green New Deal and the climate disruption crisis in general.

Published onTuesday, August 06, 2019 by TomDispatch

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'Alternative' energy and less energy