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- 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 government 'knew of plans to dump iron into the Pacific'
Chief executive of company responsible for controversial geoengineering test implicates several departments
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
As controversy mounts over the revelations that an American businessman conducted a massive ocean fertilisation test, dumping around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate off Canada's coast, it has emerged the Canadian government may have known about the geoengineering scheme and not stopped it.
- 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 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- The contribution of trees to our lives: it is time to take stock
French botanist Francis Hallé makes a case for the defence of trees as a powerful ally in saving the Earth's ecosystems
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
A reflection on the impact of trees in the world and the necessity of improving urban forestry out of self-preservation.
- 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.
- Eliizabeth Kolbert's Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
Floods in normally drought-stricken eastern India have killed hundreds and left 1.5 million homeless this summer. Closer to home, a record-setting heat wave this June killed 225 in the United States, breaking thousands of local temperature records and sending the mercury above 104 degrees as far north as North Dakota.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
Dispatches from the Front Lines
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
Michael E. Mann, lead author of the original paper in which the Hockey Stick graph first appeared, shares the story of the science and politics behind the controversy of climate change, and the implied threat to those who oppose governmental regulation and other restraints to protect the environment and planet.
- 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.
- An Open Letter To Congress From US Scientists On Climate Change And Recently Stolen Emails
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
As U.S. scientists with substantial expertise on climate change and its impacts on natural ecosystems, our built environment and human well-being, we want to assure policy makers and the public of the integrity of the underlying scientific research.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 27, 2014
Climate Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2014
The theme for this issue, and the topic of the week, is Climate Change. Groups and websites engaged in the fight for action on global warming and climate justice are featured. Book of the week is Magdoff and Foster's "What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism." In addition to articles on climate change, there are articles on Ebola, corporate tax evasion, and state terrorism, as well as a 1971 interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
- The Rising Seas
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- 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.
- VOW Women Concerned by Rising Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
As members of Canadian Voice of Women for Peace we are extremely concerned about the threat to our future from runaway temperature rise as a result rising carbon dioxide emissions in our atmosphere.
- Why Exxon Executives Deserve the Ultimate Punishment
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In a series of articles based on internal documents from Exxon Mobil going back to the 1970s and on interviews with former company scientists and employees, ICN shows that Exxon's "own research confirmed fossil fuels' role in global warming decades ago." Yes, decades ago -- during the late 1970s to be precise.
- The World Without Us
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
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