Op-Ed By Gerald Butts, President and CEO of WWF-Canada  In the Hollywood version of how science influences policy, the brilliant scientist has a eureka moment in the lab and calls the president, who promptly dispatches a square-jawed hero to save the day. In the real world, both science and politics are enormously more complicated. It is in this real-world context that we must place the imbroglio surrounding the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's research. Breathless media claims that the scientific consensus supporting the reality of climate change and its causes has collapsed are simply untrue. more
Point of View
Re: Margaret Wente's column from last Saturday's Globe: The great global warming collapse
It's scary to know that the general public are so fooled by such shameless misappropriations of this information. If years, even decades, of organizing and activism by such an important and large issue as the climate justice movement can be derailed this simply, then the time of politely asking for the average citizen to change their behavior has to be over, for the sake of survival.
It is wrong to be asking the mildly informed if they "believe" in global warming any longer. Global warming is a matter of science. Climate change is something inferred by the data, not an opinion. Asking people their opinion opens up a debate where the deniers and the liars can insert a very poisonous wedge that increases in danger as time drags on and we approach that final cliff.
This may be the one point in our history where future generations will look back and believe that the only appropriate response possible was something very radical. As a member of a sleeping, unplugged-from-reality generation, this seems both a scary moment to be living in and a crossroads that we're simply not choosing the right path on.
-Shayne Peitsch
CEO, Ahua Green Energy
Featured Blog By Leslie Malone, Environment Northeast  Advocates for energy efficiency should have one of the easiest jobs in the world. Considering the direct and indirect economic benefits, this energy resource practically sells itself. The abundant energy savings can also cost-effectively put a dent in our greenhouse gas emissions, making energy efficiency a choice policy target that everyone can get behind. more
Op-Ed  Marlo Raynolds, Executive Director of the Pembina Institute, argues that the real challenge for Canada's Prime Minister is whether he is able to create a made-in-Canada climate plan — or leave it to American lawmakers to decide our climate and, therefore, economic policy. more
Member Profile  Meet Forest Ethics
Each newsletter, this space will feature a different member organization of Climate Action Network Canada
ForestEthics, a nonprofit with staff in Canada and the United States, recognizes that individual people can be mobilized to create positive environmental change—and so can corporations. Armed with this unique philosophy, ForestEthics has secured the protection of more than sixty-five million acres of Endangered Forests.
ForestEthics also fights climate change by exposing dirty energy projects and being champions of climate solutions. Turning coalbed methane into gas and tar sands into oil undermine the local and global environment. Our Sacred Headwaters and Tar Sands campaigns are working to stop and contain extremely dirty energy projects. In helping transition off high carbon fuels, ForestEthics is securing commitments from U.S. Fortune 500 companies to reject dirty tar sands oil from their fuel mix.
We are also working to shift our energy consumption by encouraging resource conservation and the use of clean energy sources. A key step in this process is honing in on viable solutions to climate change and helping secure better government policies, improve industry standards and work toward the implementation of alternative sources of energy.
Another key to slowing down global warming is to protect our remaining intact forests. By storing carbon and removing it from the atmosphere, forests provide Earth’s best natural defense against climate change.
Take Action!
Join ForestEthics and the Office of the Wet’suwet’en and tell Enbridge CEO Patrick Daniel: Keep BC Tar Sands Free!
The proposed pipeline project would result in new tar sands extraction and release 6.5 megatonnes of C02 annually, or the equivalent of adding 1.6 million new cars on the road a year.
Watch this short animation that illustrates the clear opposition from First Nations to the proposed 1,170 km pipeline route, and then send a letter to Patrick Daniel to voice your opposition.
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Join Avaaz and Stop the tar sands madnessTwo major companies -- Whole Foods and Bed Bath & Beyond -- have just responded to public pressure and officially rejected fuel from Canada's tar sands -- the world's dirtiest oil. It's time to build an unstoppable movement. Our friends at ForestEthics are pressing 30 other companies to join Whole Foods and Bed Bath & Beyond. But there are three who are refusing to let go of tar sands: Walmart, RadioShack and Safeway. Together, let's flood the leaders of these companies and demand they abandon dirty energy fueling climate change. Email the companies now and tell them to stop the tar sands madness: Send your message now! |
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Join Avaaz and Stop the tar sands madnessAction Alert:
Two major companies -- Whole Foods and Bed Bath & Beyond -- have just responded to public pressure and officially rejected fuel from Canada's tar sands -- the world's dirtiest oil.
It's time to build an unstoppable movement. Our friends at ForestEthics are pressing 30 other companies to join Whole Foods and Bed Bath & Beyond. But there are three who are refusing to let go of tar sands: Walmart, RadioShack and Safeway.
Together, let's flood the leaders of these companies and demand they abandon dirty energy fueling climate change. Email the companies now and tell them to stop the tar sands madness:
Send your message now!