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- Academics Urge Government Climate Action
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
More than 500 university faculty members from universities across Canada signed a letter to the Canadian Government calling for immediate drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The letter points out the time frame of reductions is critical.
- Blueprint for a Green Economy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
A set of practical proposals for financing a sustainable environment.
- Canada Is Now To Climate What Japan Is To Whaling
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man. The price of this transition is the brutalisation of the country, and a government campaign against multilateralism as savage as any waged by George Bush. Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada.
- Canadian Centre for Energy Information
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Canadian Environmental Education Catalogue
A Guide to Selected Resources
Resource Type: Article
- The Carbon Underground: reversing global warming
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
As millions join in climate marches and other actions around the world, the mainstream focus on energy is missing the 55% of emissions that come from mismanaged land and destroyed forests. The key is to replace industrial agriculture worldwide with productive, regenerative organic farming that puts carbon back in the soil.
- Climate Change: Aircraft fuel is cheaper than Coke, a direct tax on fossil fuel is what the world needs urgently.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
What is needed is to actually make annual cuts in international trade. After all, how can the world aim to bring down greenhouse gas emissions when on the other it aims to push for increased international trade.
- ClimateFast
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
ClimateFast is a group of dedicated climate activists, deeply concerned about worsening climate change. Our aim is to draw the public's attention to the crisis, and by fasting and public pledges to press our politicians into action NOW to confront this greatest threat to our children's future.
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Des jeunes participent à une occupation pacifique pour la justice climatique à l'intérieur du Comité sur l'Environement de la Chambre des Communes
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Six jeunes ont entrepris une occupation pacifique à l'intrieur du Parlement canadien, à
l'occasion d'une rencontre du Comité permanent de l'environnement et du
développement durable dans l'édifice du centre.
- The Earthscan Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
- Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was A Global Threat By Late 1970s
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Throughout Exxon’s global operations, the company knew that CO2 was a harmful pollutant in the atmosphere years earlier than previously reported. Exxon corporate documents from the late 1970s state unequivocally "there is no doubt" that CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels was a growing "problem" well understood within the company.
- Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
A readable account of the development of the science of global warming, alongside shocking vignettes that demonstrate the rapidly altering effects climate change is having on our world.
- Global Warning...Global Warming
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- Greenhouse Earth
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- Greenhouse Gas Concentrations in Atmosphere Reach New Record
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record high in 2012, continuing an upward and accelerating trend which is driving climate change and will shape the future of our planet for hundreds and thousands of years.
- The Growth Illusion
How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Douthwaite argues that strategies used by governments to raise national income often increase poverty and unemployment. Moreover, in the USA, Britiain, Germany and Australia, each increase in national income consumes more resources than it creates on a sustainable basis. In other words, these economies are running backwards and making their citizens worse off.
- Heat
How to Stop the Planet From Burning
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
Concerns about the effects of global warming on the Human species - especially those unfortunate enough to live in poorer countries - require drastic action, far outstripping the recommendations of the Kyoto protocol.
- The Heat Is On
The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A book discussing the ever-worsening threat of global climate change.
- In Our Backyard
A Greater Vancouver Environmental Guide...
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
In Our Backyard focuses on environmental problems that apply directly to Greater Vancouver. With detials on local garbage and recylcing facilities, water and energy consumption, sewage disposal, air quality, and more, it is designed to help ordinary people deal with the onslaught of information and value changes that will continue to surround the environmental movement.
- The IPCC report: Between nightmare and revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Belgian ecosocialist Daniel Tanuro says the latest IPCC report has sounded an alarm that we must not ignore. Only radical change can avert climate disaster.
- The Rising Seas
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- Simon Fraser University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Sources welcomes Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Sources welcomes a new member: Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, a non-partisan Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) comprised of a network of diverse women with consultative status at the United Nations ECOSOC.
- Transport Policy and the Environment
Six Case Studies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- Transportation Association of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- World Without Ice
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
56 million years ago a mysterious surge of carbon into the atmosphere sent global temperatures soaring. In a geologic eyeblink life was forever changed.
- Youth Stage Peaceful Sit-in for Climate Justice inside House of Common's Environment Committee
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Six youth staged a peaceful sit-in inside the Canadian parliament, at a meeting of the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development, pledging to stay until the Harper government acts to combat the climate crisis.
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