- Canadian Centre for Energy Information
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Capitalism is failing the planet
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
If we continue with capitalist business as usual, there will be disastrous consequences for humanity. Capitalism is in unavoidable conflict with environmental sustainability because of three key features that are inherent to the system.
- 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.
- A Direct Tax On Fossil Fuel Is What The World Needs Urgently
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
A direct tax on fossil fuels is the only realistic way to achieve the necessary cuts.
- Disobedience
The rise of the global fossil fuel resistance
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2016
Disobedience is a film about a new phase of the climate movement: courageous action that is being taken on the front lines of the climate crisis on every continent, led by regular people fed up with the power and pollution of the fossil fuel industry.
- The Earthscan Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
- EnvironmentSources.com
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- FBI harassing fossil fuel activists in the Pacific northwest
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A grassroots movement of eco-activists is achieving unprecedented success in challenging fossil fuel developments in the Cascadia region of the US's Pacific northwest, writes Alexander Reid Ross. And that has attracted the wrong kind of attention - from local police, FBI and right-wing legislators determined to protect the corporate right to exploit and pollute.
- 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.
- A Fossil Fuel Exit Program
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A complete transition away from fossil fuels is necessary within a few decades. The question is how to construct an exit strategy that will accomplish this. James Hansen has provided a starting point for a realistic climate-change exit strategy.
- A Fossil Fuel Exit Program
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Ekeland analyzes climate activist Hansen's climate change exit strategy and why it has not been supported or pursued by political and environmental groups.
- Fossil Fuel Industry's Global Climate Science Communications Plan in Action: Polluting the Classroom
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Fossil Fuel Industry promotes a plan in U.S. schools to address global climate change. Their plan includes denial, doubt and promoting the merits of fossil fuel.
- Gassing the American People
Fracking Democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Last year the World Health Organization said over 7 million people died from air pollution, making it the largest killer on the planet – killing almost 80 times more people in one year than died of poison gas over the 4 years of WWI.
- A Green History of the World
The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
Ponting tracks the "green" history of the world showing how throughout history civilizations have collapsed when they exhausted the earth's natural resources.
- 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.
- James Hansen and the Climate-Change Exit Strategy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Hansen has provided the starting point for a realistic climate-change exit strategy aimed at keeping the increase in global average temperatures below 2°C (3.6° F), an amount that constitutes the planetary tipping point with respect to climate change.
- Leave most fossil fuels in the ground, or fry
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
For the world to meet its climate goals, a third of the world's oil, half its gas and 80% of its coal must stay underground.
- Let Them Eat Climate Change
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The winds are changing for the energy giants. And so the black plumes of smoke emitted by the climate deniers in an attempt to provide cover for the coal, oil and gas industry have already been refined.
- Life, Money & Illusion
Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
The failure to reduce green house gas emissions, the success of efforts to curb ozone depletion, causes related to prosperity and social justice are just some the topics covered. By using the example of Kerela, India, Nickerson shows how a society by working together can become car-free, religious and bigotry free, have a high level of health care and literacy and be able to sustain itself on a fraction of the money on which we depend.
- A Line in the Tar Sands
Struggles for Environmental Justice
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
The fight over the tar sands in North America is among the epic environmental and social justice battles of our time, and one of the first that has managed to quite explicitly marry concern for frontline communities and immediate local hazards with fear for the future of the entire planet.
- A New Wave of Climate Insurgents Defines Itself as Law-Enforcers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Grassroots movement organizations from every continent will hold a global week of action called Break Free From Fossil Fuels in May 2016. They envision tens of thousands of people mobilizing worldwide to demand a rapid transition to renewable energy. Events will include nonviolent direct actions targeting extraction sites or infrastructure; pressure on political targets to shift policies around fossil fuel development; and support for clean energy alternatives.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 8, 2015
Elections
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Elections are the topic of the week, with items related to the October 19 Canadian federal election, and also to broader issues of parliamentary democracy, voting and whether voting can bring about change, and the neo-liberal attack on democracy. Articles look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the financial takeovers of Ukraine and Greece, and debt bondage. Also: a discussion of James Hansen's fossil fuel exit strategy, and a critique of Alinsky-style organizing.
- Randy Park, Author and Speaker -- "Thinking for Results"
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Scandal! Exxon knew about climate change, boosted denialism, misled shareholders, went carbon heavy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
One of the world's biggest energy companies has been caught out in what may be the biggest ever climate scandal. Way back in the 1980s ExxonMobil knew of the 'potentially catastrophic' and 'irreversible' effects of increasing fossil fuel consumption, but chose to cover up the findings, spread misinformation on climate change, and go for high carbon energy sources.
- 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.
- Stemming the tide together: Soil, not oil
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
We are living in a rapidly changing world. The changes that we are witnessing have not come about by accident; they have been carefully orchestrated and the price has been dire. Today, a handful of corporations and entities control the global supply of food, water and other resources. They operate without any sense of responsibility and the space for people to seek redress is becoming continually more constricted.
- Tar Sands
Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
To extract the energy from the Alberta tar sands, the world's ugliest, most expensive hydrocrabon, we are polluting our air, poisoning our water, destroying vast areas of boreal forest, and undermining democracy.
- This Changes Everything
Capitalism vs the Climate
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
Klein says that climate change cannot be confronted unless we confront capitalism. She says that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed system and build something radically better.
- What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism
A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
A manifesto for those environmentalists who reject schemes of “green capitalism” or piecemeal reform. Magdoff and Foster argue that efforts to reform capitalism along environmental lines or rely solely on new technology to avert catastrophe misses the point. The main cause of the looming environmental disaster is the driving logic of the system itself, and those in power — no matter how “green” — are incapable of making the changes that are necessary.
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