Archive for Ecology & sustainability

I’m annoyed with the National Post.

Yesterday they printed an opinion piece by Lorne Gunter, who said the 23 members of an oil-funded lobby of climate change deniers were comparable to the 3500 vetted and uncompensated scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.     Read more »

I’ve just added a new category, “hope”.  There’s bits of good news popping up amid all the mind-reeling bad.  Today’s news reports that the Southern Baptists, who represent 16 million Americans, have diverged from their prior stance of doubting global warming.  Not only do they now accept that humans are responsible, but have stated that we have a moral duty to fight it.

That’s extremely good news for me, because I’ve been thinking for many years that we’ll only see some real action on this issue when a broad base of ecumenical groups gets involved.

There’s more good news.     Read more »

The EU has come to the conclusion that climate change is very dangerous.

Katie Fullerton passes on the following event information:

Beaches/East Toronto Conservation Fair
Thursday, 2008 March 27, 7 pm – 9 pm
Beach United Church, 140 Wineva at Queen St East
free

ETCAG (East Toronto Climate Action Group) invites you to come and and meet informed experts, find answers and learn new ways to reduce your environmental footprint!

Over 20 Green Enterpriseswill cover topics such as solar water heaters, geothermal, car sharing, buying local and more!

Sponsored by the Conservation Council of Ontario in partnership with Green Enterprise.  Supported by the Ontario Ministry of Energy.

For more information, you can contact Katie at 416 691-5173 or check out the Toronto resources at WeConserve.ca.

Sign the petition for electric cars here.

Canada used to have two electric car manufacturers.  Dynasty, in Delta, British Columbia, and Zenn, based in Toronto, with a manufacturing facility in St. Jerome, Quebec.  Dynasty has closed its BC operations and is moving its manufacturing facilities overseas.  Zenn is considering following suit.  It’s no wonder.

We subsidize, at $1 billion annually, the manufacture of the biggest gas-guzzlers by profitable American corporations that repatriate their profits next door.  We subsidize big oil even more, at $1.4 billion annually.  For Canadian innovations that would dramatically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions profile, we make it difficult to even get a foot in the door.     Read more »