http://www.alternet.org/environment/dutch-government-ordered-cut-carbon-emissions-landmark-ruling Dutch court orders state to reduce emissions by 25% within five years to protect its citizens from climate change in world’s first climate liability suit. By Arthur Neslen / The Guardian July 22, 2015 Photo Credit: El Greco/Shutterstock.com A court in the Hague has declared the Dutch government’s climate policy illegal and ordered […]
http://www.alternet.org/environment/american-youths-file-landmark-climate-lawsuit-against-president-obama-us-government The plaintiffs claim that the government violated their constitutional rights by promoting the development of fossil fuels. Our Children’s Trust August 25, 2015 On August 12, International Youth Day, 21 young people from across the United States filed a landmark constitutional climate change lawsuit against the federal government in the U.S. District Court for […]
These 3 youtubes cover the ground on ecological economics very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d05jEprJxtE “CRASH COURSE” in Ecological Economics (Jon Erickson) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhHH5meSLZI Nate Hagens // From Wall St. to Ecological Economics // Part 1 ] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxfGcwfYlAg Interview, William Rees – The Dangerous Disconnect Between Economics and Ecology. Institute for New Economic Thinking
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/10/07/Leap-Manifesto/ (LINKS to related articles can be found at the URL. The text is captured below – – sometimes internet articles become inaccessible later.) It’s ambitious, but not capitalism’s end as mainstream columnists fret. By Seth Klein, TheTyee.ca The Leap Manifesto: A Call for Canada Based on Caring for the Earth and One Another was […]
Colette Derworiz, Calgary Herald, 09.06.2015 From an earlier report: University of Alberta scientist David Schindler holding a white fish with a tumour growth in the center. Deformed and unheathly fish collected from the Athabasca watershed, downstream from the oil sands industrial development were on display during a news conference at the University of Alberta. Researchers […]
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/20/wellcome-trust-loses-millions-as-its-fossil-fuel-investments-plunge-in-value?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2 Fossil fuel divestment Keep it in the ground Medical charity sold off two-thirds of its investments in Shell but lost an estimated £175m in the last year due to falling share prices in the fossil fuel sector The Wellcome Trust, Euston Road, London. Photograph: Graham Turner Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian The Wellcome […]
With thanks to Janet Eaton: Richard Heinberg concludes: It is probably not within the capability of philanthropic foundations to avert all the human impacts that will accompany the end of economic growth, nor the environmental impacts of past growth. Nevertheless, the strategic application of some of society’s accumulated wealth toward solving the problem of systemic adaptation […]
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/28/pope-climate-change-naomi-klein Social activist ‘surprised but delighted’ to join top cardinal in high-level environment conference at the Vatican PHOTO: Naomi Klein on an earlier visit to Rome Photograph: REX Shutterstock Rosie Scammell She is one of the world’s most high-profile social activists and a ferocious critic of 21st-century capitalism. He is one […]
You’ll love these two short videos – – talented Canadians sing songs to dear leader Stephen Harper! http://youtu.be/Ei50lM6ab1c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWgYC6wWNWU
The way in which Climate change and Water issues are approached by people in different places has an impact on all of us. B.C. seems to have a pretty good system already in place for water management. Four stages of restrictions on water use, depending on conditions. You don’t just wait for disaster and then […]