Tropical forests forever
Good things are happening at this year’s UN Climate Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil. These annual conferences, named for the number of years the meeting…
Disciplining the greenwashers
Last year Ottawa passed a bill (Bill C-59) that contained a modest amendment to the Competition Act requiring companies to provide evidence to back up their…
Today is Earth Overshoot Day
The Global Footprint Network performs the public service of calculating how rapidly we are drawing down the Earth’s natural resources. The Network is an international…
Unleashing the economy on the environment
Reading about the Liberals’ One Canadian Economy Act, or Bill C-5, and the rush to get it through Parliament, I was reminded of the infamous…
Big environmental win sans the U.S.
The U.S., under new management, has taken a remarkable U-turn. Long recognized as the “leader of the free world,” it now seems to have switched…
Will our technology overwhelm us?
Two articles appearing the same day in The New York Times reminded readers how technology, so generous to our way of life, can turn on…
Alberta phases out fossil fuel
You read that right. Alberta has phased out a fossil fuel. Not, unfortunately the tar sands. That would be way too much to hope for,…
A carbon tax on cows?
Consumer carbon taxes seem to cause something akin to hysteria among Canadian conservatives. The federal leader of the Conservative party endlessly repeats his slogan “axe…
Taming plastics
What would we do without plastics? Perhaps the greatest material humanity ever invented. They are used for everything from furniture to DVDs to heart valves…
August 2—Earth Overshoot Day
The Global Footprint Network performs the public service of calculating how rapidly we are devouring the Earth’s natural resources. The Network is a charitable not-for-profit…
About eating meat
The Colorado River and those who depend on it are in trouble. A once-in-a-millennium drought now entering its third decade is shrinking water levels to…
BIG step toward saving the oceans
Along with our other environmental sins, we are fishing the oceans dry. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, over a third of global…