Archive for Ecology & sustainability

This is a great spoof site that attempts to highlight the silliness of carbon offsetting by applying the same principle to relationships.  Thanks to local supporter Marilyn Zavitz.

Tickets for this presentation went on sale earlier today.  I got mine.

David Suzuki at UofT
Friday, 2008 January 18, 6:30 pm
Convocation Hall
31 King’s College Circle
2 blocks west of University Avenue, 1 block north from College Street
in the University of Toronto

tickets available here

A bit of hopeful news that’s being tossed around lately is the potential of agrichar to improve the ability of soils to absorb carbon.  Agrichar is a pyrolysis product from biomass wastes.  The pyrolysis process itself can also provide energy so it’s one of those lovely win-win ideas I like so much.  If the trials keep showing good results, this will likely become one of the things we use to fight global warming.

The “100%” in the the title above refers to “100%” of home electricity — not home heating, industrial electricity, and certainly not transportation.  But this represents a major post-Bali turnaround and a difficult goal to acheive in just 13 years.  Read the whole article in The Independent.

Yesterday, after getting an emergency appeal from the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition (CYCC) delegation to Bali, I sent out an urgent appeal to all our supporters to bombard the Prime Minister’s office with requests to stop blocking the negotiations.  Basically, Canada was the only holdout Kyoto nation refusing to endorse targets of 25-40% by 2020.  I have no doubt that because of this tremendous effort by CYCC and their supporters here in Canada, Minister John Baird in Bali capitulated to the pressure and agreed to the targets other countries proposed.  Thank you to everyone who contacted the Prime Minister.     Read more »