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Category Archives: environment
Canada: a brief history of failed GHG reduction policies
January 24, 2009 – 10:04 am
Attended a talk entitled Getting Climate Policy Right yesterday, presented by Mark Jaccard and co-sponsored by University of Toronto’s School of Public Policy & Governance and the Centre for Environment. Jaccard is a leading expert, not just in Canada but internationally, on climate change policy and economic modelling, and delivered an informative, stimulating and engaging [...]
Environmental politics over the long term
October 21, 2008 – 5:35 pm
According to George Monbiot,
While prime ministers in Italy and eastern Europe are demanding a bonfire of environmental measures in order to save the economy, in the UK politicians from all the major parties have made the connection between environmental destruction and economic meltdown.
At any rate, both the UK and Europe are thinking longer-term than the [...]
The climate change denial industry
October 4, 2008 – 11:37 pm
From the video:
In 1998, the American Petroleum Institute gathered a group of people to draft a plan to combat the science of global warming. They called themselves the Global Climate Science Communications Team. Its members hailed from some familiar places: the same think tanks that pushed the now-discredited tobacco studies were now helping to develop [...]
Littering in outer space
September 23, 2008 – 5:48 pm
As if seeing the earth from space was not already uprooting enough (PDF).
Reason 2 not to elect the Conservatives: stupid and destructive climate change policy
September 10, 2008 – 8:55 pm
After they were done pointing the finger at Paul Martin’s LIberals for dropping the ball on Kyoto (which, though a reasonable accusation, is ridiculous coming from Stephen Harper or John Baird) and had finally caved to public pressure on addressing environmental issues and human-caused global warming, the Conservatives have come out with a set of [...]
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the way We Make Things
September 9, 2008 – 7:55 pm
Without exaggerating, I can say that this is probably the most important book I’ve read in a long time. And that’s not for lack of “important” books on my bookshelf. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things is important because it introduces the reader to an entirely novel way of thinking about design, [...]
On climate change and not wrestling with pigs
August 23, 2008 – 1:28 am
The saying goes, ‘Never get into a wrestling match with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.’
Unfortunately in the case of climate change debate, the temptation is difficult to resist. There is a small army of well-funded pseudo-scientists and PR hacks dedicated to spreading as much misinformation as possible who end [...]