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Thanks to Bruce Hanson for the pointer.  Here’s some background:

The reality is that the rise of oil, not the dollar, is this year’s big news story and the end of cheap oil could prove to be the greatest challenge we have faced in a generation.

Governments must act now to anticipate the coming period of “peak oil.” This means massive investments in public transit, tough laws that encourage high-density housing instead of sprawl, and getting serious about making the transition to a service and knowledge economy less dependent on oil.

Several people have asked me about the Green Party’s stand on Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) representation, which will be put to a referendum simultaneously with the provincial election this October 10.  I urge everyone to consider voting for Patrick Kraemer and strongly suggest that everyone vote YES to MMP.

The Green Party supports proportional representation and mixed-member proportional is among the best democratic systems available.  To explain why, I asked my friend Sharon Howarth, who is devoting every moment of her time to promoting MMP.  Here are her comments:     Read more »

The Portlands Energy Centre is rapidly rising on the waterfront.  It is already an eyesore.  The question now is if it will operate and how often.  Torontonians are going to have to be a lot more vocal and active if they don’t want another power plant belching emissions into our overburdened airshed.     Read more »

Here’s a YouTube video explaining why we should address global warming, even if we aren’t positive it’s happening. Thanks to Bruce Hanson.

And here, thanks to multiple sources, is a reason to believe that the unfolding of this — possibly imaginary — global warming will be much worse than we’ve been imagining, with flooding 50 times greater than that predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I was delighted to see that in the discussion of how to deal with it, Mr. Monbiot pointed out that a fully renewable grid is possible with the help of the flow batteries I’ve been promoting.