SCIENCE MATTERS | IPCC Report Shows Action on Climate Change is Critical
By David Suzuki — The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just released the first of four chapters of its Fifth Assessment Report. It shows scientists are more certain now than in 2007 when the...
View ArticleSCIENCE MATTERS | Philippines Tragedy Shows Urgency of Warsaw Climate Summit
By David Suzuki — As people in the Philippines struggle with devastation and death from the worst storm to hit land in recorded history, world leaders met in Warsaw, Poland, to discuss the climate...
View ArticleLETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER | Carbon Conscious Travel
By Lisa Bland — Dear Readers, The darkest days of winter are gone and although there’s no sign of green life stirring under the heavy blanket of snow, the light is returning. I notice my plants...
View ArticleCLIMATE CHANGE | Choices: Selecting the Climate We Want
By Ray Grigg — Choices are one of the many benefits provided by our modern, affluent, consumer culture. A television universe of 500 channels should provide something for everyone’s viewing...
View ArticleCLIMATE CHANGE | Changing Course
By Jenny Howell, CCCS — Going through some old magazines last week, I picked up a 2002 copy of Harper’s magazine, with an article by Tom Bissall about the demise of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan. The Aral...
View ArticleCLIMATE CHANGE | The Five Most Important Climate Solutions for Small Towns in BC
By Guy Dauncey — 1. Make a Sustainable Transportation Commitment Aim for zero-carbon future local transportation by creating a walkable downtown community with a great local cycling environment,...
View ArticleCLIMATE CHANGE | In the Shadow of Global Warming
By Van Andruss — We go along nowadays as if things were relatively normal, but things are not normal. The current world is a radically different world from the one we used to know. Our present...
View ArticleOPINION | Think Globally, Act Locally – Principles of Addressing Climate Change
By Sage Birchwater – Climate change touches all of us in different ways. When I came to the Cariboo-Chilcotin in 1973, we had “real” winters. Temperatures would drop to forty or fifty below for days or...
View ArticleConservation | Public Participation and Forestry Planning: A Personal Account
By Van Andruss – I seem to be one of those people who lag behind the times. For instance, I assume that BC’s Crown land is owned by its citizens, both native and non-native. Certainly logging companies...
View ArticleScience Matters | David Suzuki | On Climate, OECD Head Embraces Environmentalism
By David Suzuki – Angel Gurria sounds like the leader of an environmental or social justice group. In a recent University of Toronto lecture, “Climate Action: Time for Implementation,” he stressed that...
View ArticleRail Ties Be Wise continues to fight rail tie burning proposal in Williams Lake
By Sage Birchwater – A group of Williams Lake residents is continuing the fight to prevent Atlantic Power Corporation from burning railway ties in its 600,000-tonne capacity biomass-fuelled energy...
View ArticleRocky Mountain Books Releases Two New Titles
Looking for something for your holiday reading list? Rocky Mountain Books is pleased to announce the release of two compelling books, Total Transition: The Human Side of the Renewable Energy...
View ArticleA Message to the Climate Choir
By Guy Dauncey – I continue to be obsessed with the urgency of the climate crisis, at the expense of my other main project, the book I’m writing on The Economics of Kindness: The Birth of a New...
View ArticleReading, Riting, Rithmetic–and Regeneration
By Guy Dauncey – For 200 years, students have been urged to learn the 3 Rs of reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic. In recent years, thinkers of various political persuasions have proposed adding a fourth...
View ArticleBC Set to Attract Investment, Build on Climate Commitments with Budget 2019
Lawyers with West Coast Environmental Law applauded BC’s Budget 2019 for delivering on funding promises to implement the government’s climate plan, CleanBC. The organization argued that funding...
View ArticleHow to Save Our Planet: Where to Start
By LeRae Haynes – Turning concern into discussion and fear into action is at the heart of a Williams Lake Facebook page called How to Save Our Planet—Where to Start. Administered by registered clinical...
View ArticleCLIMATE CHANGE | The Five Most Important Climate Solutions for Small Towns in BC
By Guy Dauncey — 1. Make a Sustainable Transportation Commitment Aim for zero-carbon future local transportation by creating a walkable downtown community with a great local cycling environment,...
View ArticleMessage from the Universe: Do it Now, with Urgency
By Guy Dauncey – There comes a time in the evolution of every civilization when the Universe sends us a new message. Slowly, it works its way through the multiple layers of a long-established culture....
View Article2019 New Titles from Caitlin Press
Escape to the Wild: A Family’s Return to Simplicity By Andrea Hejlskov Published by Caitlin Press Andrea Hejlskov was certain of one thing: life could not continue as it was. She and her husband had...
View ArticleClimate Change: Think Globally, Act Locally
By Jim Cooperman — There is no doubt we are immersed in a climate crisis, as already we are experiencing the impacts—floods, fires, storms, and rising temperatures. Due to the still rising CO2 levels...
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