The largest climate march in history is planned for September 21, in advance of a major UN summit on the climate crisis. The main march will be in New York, with supporting marches all over the world. See peoplesclimate.org for details. Divest Waterloo will be there in New York! […]
Tired of climate debates between pundits, politicians and industry spokespeople? Try this refreshing hip-hop/rap video from actual climate scientists in Australia. (Warning: profanity)
This spring we learned that the melting of parts of the West Antarctica ice sheet has passed a tipping point, and is now unstoppable. (See e.g. this New York Times article.) This by itself will eventually raise the global sea level by over a meter. Further, this will likely lead […]
Numerous reports over the past year – published by mainstream, high profile groups – have raised alarms about the risks we face if we fail to act, or act too slowly, to reduce our carbon emissions and by extension the accelerating effects of climate change. The most recent report, […]
The Prime Minister’s comments on the importance of economic growth over climate change action, reported in a recent article in the Toronto Star, create a false choice. They are evidence that he has ignored the advice from some of Canada’s brightest minds, who for the last 25 years worked on the convergence […]
We recognize the dim future of the fossil fuel economy yet we continue to search frantically for new sources of oil. As KAIROS demonstrates in its research paper “Pumped Up: How Canada subsidizes fossil fuels at the expense of green alternatives“, we spend far more money in Canada to […]
Banking on Divestment, a recent article in Alternatives Journal, explains how Canadian university students are demanding that their schools stop supporting fossil fuels. The article illustrates the important ripple effect that divestment from fossil fuels can have. “The dollars are important but the economic impacts extend far beyond this,” says Cameron Fenton […]
According to this professionally conducted telephone poll: 77% of Canadians support increased taxes on carbon based fuels, with revenues used to fund research and development for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs; and 84% agree that “Rich countries like Canada have a moral obligation to show international leadership by reducing their […]
In this clip from the documentary Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, which aired on PBS in March 2011, Lester Brown, Founder and Director of the Earth Policy Institute, uses the example of a lily pond to demonstrate the accelerating effect of carbon emissions on our climate. This is a simple, […]
