Shell shut down
At a time when expansion of the sands looks more certain than ever, some feel the need to express dissent more necessary than ever.
21 May 2010
Tag: Environment
“I’ll die doing this”
Indigenous people in Alberta, Canada, are becoming ill as a result of tar sands pollution. They share their stories of cancer, cover-ups and courage.
23 April 2010
Shareholders Vote on BP’s Plan to Move into Canadian Oil Sands
“The oil sands are an expensive business — we are asking for relatively innocuous disclosure and transparency.”
16 April 2010
Simple ways to shrink your water footprint
Fresh water on our planet may seem plentiful and abundant, but we are actually facing an imminent water shortage.
1 April 2010
You water what you eat
You may be surprised to learn how much water it takes to make the food you eat every day
1 April 2010
Searching for a substitute
The race is on to make to make something just as good polycarbonate plastics made with bisphenol A - now banned in baby products in Canada.
13 March 2010
Copenhagen’s Climate Control Circus
Copenhagen accomplished nothing, but did at least signify something: the political process isn’t working, and local and individual efforts are not just important solutions but — for now — the only solutions.
11 February 2010
Bluewash is the new greenwash
The winner of the first Greenwash award in Davos? The UN.
5 February 2010
Much ado about a napkin
Why had The New York Times announced a climate "deal" so many hours before any other major news outlet – and why the optimism?
23 December 2009
Head in the tar sand
The only thing perhaps more shocking than the scale of the Alberta tar sands operation is the ignorance of it beyond Canada’s borders.
18 December 2009
Reality bites
The week of futile talks in Copenhagen has demonstrated unequivocally that climate change is an issue of social justice and human rights - and not merely a “scientific” or “environmental” concern.
17 December 2009
The other conference, and the other climate cause
Negotiations at Copenhagen leave water and its effects on climate change out of the picture
16 December 2009
The new enviro-guilt: water footprints
Now that you've figured out how to reduce your carbon impact, another global problem is emerging. We may see a future in which everyday items will be labelled with the amount of water required to produce them
11 December 2009
Death by a thousand cuts
A new analysis concludes that pollution from the tar sands is up to five times higher than industry figures state.
8 December 2009
The Age Of Stupid
"If you want to change the world, make a documentary."
21 November 2009
“Your money is being used to bankroll the tar sands”
First Nations activists banned from Canadian House of Commons invited to Parliament in London to discuss British investments in the tar sands
17 November 2009
Green Leadership at the NFB
Canada's National Film Board is trying to overhaul the movie industry, making itself the flagship for green practices
6 November 2009
Science sceptics
'We've wasted 20 years when we should have been tackling the problem of climate change instead we wasted our time debating with deniers.'
4 November 2009
The Climate Change Mythbuster
PR expert Jim Hoggan tirelessly combats lies about global warming—and the PR machine working to spread them
12 October 2009
Toxic planet
Melting ice-caps and rising sea-levels tell us the writing is on the wall. But the poisons in our bodies tell us that it is also written in our blood. The air, water, land – and consequently our bodies – are suffused with deadly chemicals. The solution to toxic pollution, like climate change, is not technology but sustainability.
1 October 2009
Canada’s biggest eco embarrassments
The magazine Green Living performed a reality check on the nation’s environmental record — and the results weren’t pretty
29 September 2009
Postcard from London: On climate change, new message is “Blame Canada”
“We are facing a climate emergency—and there is no better symbol for that than the nation of Canada.”
28 September 2009
Documenting water
It is water’s very ubiquity that might make the topic seem so banal, but also which makes it so worthy of serious examination.
21 September 2009
Greening the silver screen
As Canada’s film festival season kicks off this week in Toronto, Zoe Cormier takes a look at how Canada’s tinseltowns are leading the way to greener movie industry
11 September 2009
“Not really a green country any more”
In the wake of China’s controversial investment in the oil sands this week, the intense northern exposure that took place in the heart of London left the red maple leaf with an extra-black smudge.
5 September 2009
Small is beautiful
What these pint-sized sustainable homes lack in size, they make up for in design ingenuity.
3 September 2009
Carrot mobbing
A new movement puts eco-conscious consumers in the driver’s seat.
29 August 2009
Six low-tech solutions to climate change
Massive geoengineering projects may be sexy but they’re not the only way to combat global warming.
14 July 2009
The future of energy
Betting on wave dragons, sea snakes, green crude, power kites and other cleantech innovations to fuel the planet.
15 May 2009
Fire proof?
The federal government wants to ban a controversial flame retardant. What does it mean for you?
8 May 2009