Well folks, it’s Environment Week! While most of the rest of the civilized world is preparing for post-Kyoto measures we’re doing our own thing here in Alberta.
Our forward-thinking government reports that, in celebration of Environment Week, Premier Ed Stelmach made a personal commitment to plant a tree on the Alberta Legislature grounds. I found [...]
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“Planning is for communists” — AB Tories hire PR expert with $35k tab 05.29.08
Our dear, dear friends at Sourcewatch report:
The Alberta government has hired crisis management guru Peter Sandman to help it defuse concerns over the environmental impact of the oilsands mining industry. In April, Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach sought to defend the discovery of 500 dead ducks found in a tailings pond. At a cost of C$35,000, [...]
Harper government under investigation over Kyoto 05.07.08
An investigation will be held into suspicions that the Harper government illegally registered greenhouses gas emissions with the enforcement branch of the UN Kyoto Protocol.
This revelation means that Canada might be barred from the right to trade carbon dioxide in a global market. Greece was suspended for similar reasons last month, the first such state [...]
Community Garden at McGill and at Home 05.05.08
From Spacing Montreal, a “new initiative to increase downtown gardening space.”
A campus group has formed at McGill to give the city’s many university students — many of whom are apartment dwellers — access to more gardening space.
Campus Crops formed this winter with the goal of identifying underused spaces on the McGill campus and turning [...]
What If Homes Came With Nutrition Labels? 04.21.08
ApartmentTherapy asks, What If Homes Came With Nutrition Labels?
Eco-conscious architect Michelle Kaufmann AIA, LEED® AP writes:
Homebuyers need more information about the homes they are buying when they are buying. There should be a way for them to have easy access to information like how efficiently a home will use energy and water, how [...]
CCS SUX? : Is Clean Coal Possible? 04.16.08
The Real News has been talking about “clean coal” a lot. So has Canada’s Old Government and their industry supporters. The most recent federal budget included huge dollars for “clean coal” and carbon capture and sequestration (CCS).
With what little I know and understand about CCS, I’m under the impression that it’s worthwhile and positive [...]
Undergound Logistics Ahead? 04.07.08
Trucking traffic is a huge problem in Calgary and Canada and much more so in Europe. It stinks, it’s dangerous, it assumes an unnecessarily large physical and environmental footprint, it is inefficient and expensive — but it’s what the world uses to move goods.
Western European countries — wise to the myriad global warming, logistics, [...]
Algae-to-biofuel goes online 04.05.08
PetroSun, Inc. launched their commerical algae-to-biofuel facility in Rio Honda, Texas this week. This is amazing stuff: about 1,100 acres of saltwater ponds will be producing bio-jet-fuel from algae. The project is on track to produce 4.4 million gallons of algal oil and 110 million pounds of biomass per year. Additionally, PetroSun will be conducting [...]
“A Critical Conversation on Climate Change” 02.06.08
A few weeks ago, I attended a lecture by Larry Lohmann, the editor of “Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power.”
I entered being a strong supporter of cap-and-trade systems and left — although not 180 degrees altered — seriously more critical of such initiatives and generally suspicious of existing programs. And [...]
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