Climate Change

Climate change has arrived.  Through erratic weather patterns, forest fires and glacier melt we are already experiencing the effects of climate change.  Worse, the process of climate change, based on the levels of greenhouse gases we have already put in the atmosphere, is likely to increase the severity and frequency of severe weather events. If we allow levels of greenhouse gases to continue to rise, the disasters of today will be dwarfed by future catastrophic impacts.

Clearly, one of humanity’s principal challenges in this century will be to stop climate change.  To do this, we must drastically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) – gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide that trap heat in the atmosphere, raising global temperature and thereby spurring climate change.

Humans have become addicted to burning fossil fuels for energy - a principal cause of human-generated greenhouse gas emissions. ...
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We need regulators, not cheerleaders
3 Feb, 2012   |   Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent and his Alberta counterpart Diana McQueen are expected to unveil a new Tar Sands monitoring program Friday afternoon. “It's time politicians put down their oil industry cheering pompoms and start enforcing the rules and regulations that are already in place,” says John Bennett, Executive Director of Sierra Club Canada. While Sierra Club...
Long-awaited Tar Sands monitoring plan to be unveiled
3 Feb, 2012   |   Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent and his Alberta counterpart Diana McQueen will take the wraps off a new oilsands monitoring program Friday afternoon. Environmental groups are anxiously awaiting the details of the plan which has been in the works for more than a year. The Executive Director of Sierra Club Canada says it's imperative the plan be totally independent of government...
Fired environmentalist sees conspiracy
1 Feb, 2012   |   A B.C. environmentalist claims in a sworn affidavit the Harper government labelled him and his organization, ForestEthics, an "enemy of the government of Canada" and an "enemy of the people of Canada" and threatened to pull the charitable status of its funder, the Tides Canada Foundation, because of ForestEthics' opposition to the Northern Gateway pipeline and tanker...
Birthday of the beer can
31 Jan, 2012   |   ...from healthy glass to BPA epoxy lined aluminum cans. It is nothing to celebrate. by Lloyd Alter, January 30, 2012 published on www.treehugger.com Happy 77th Birthday, Canned American Beer Take off, eh?/Promo image It is that time of year, the end of January when the anniversary of the first beer can rolls around, and somebody writes an article about its history. Andrew...
Trees -- They Fix Everything
27 Jan, 2012   |   By Jeff Alan Over the holidays I dismantled another misbehaving giant LCD. The problem was that periodically, the screen would garble, and if you waited a couple hours it might fix itself. Or it wouldn't. Either way, it wasn't behaving and it was being replaced. The only indicator that it might be an easy fix was that bashing the top right of the frame would correct the error, if only...
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