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‘Humans Can’t Even Photosynthesize!’: The Natural World is Smarter Than We Think

Diane Beckett — May 17, 2016

The inanimate world is smarter than we think, says U.S. botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer, Ph.D., in a recent edition of the On Being podcast: Before we get too impressed with the dominance of human structures over natural systems, she notes, let’s not forget that humans can’t even photosynthesize!

Our Friends in Alberta Need Our Support

Diane Beckett — May 6, 2016

Right now, tens of thousands of people from Fort McMurray and surrounding communities have fled the raging fires overtaking and threatening their neighbourhoods, their homes, their treasured keepsakes and memories, and their most basic sense of safety.

Leave Your Mark

Diane Beckett — April 22, 2016

You have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to leave your mark and push Canada towards a strong climate strategy – right now.

NAFTA on Steroids: With New Trade Deal, ‘If You’re Not at the Table, You’re on the Menu’

Diane Beckett — April 21, 2016

For a chilling view of Canada’s possible future, look no farther than the shamelessly brazen, $15-billion lawsuit that TransCanada Corporation launched against the United States government, after President Barack Obama had the temerity to refuse a permit for the company’s controversial Keystone XL pipeline.

Honouring Bob Hunter’s Legacy-The Robert Hunter Memorial Lecture

Dan McDermott — April 14, 2016

John Bennett and I have shared a lot of experiences over our forty years of environmental collaboration. Our friendship with Bob Hunter was an important one for us both. We were pleased and honoured to be asked by the Hunter Family to give the year’s lecture on Thursday April 14th at the University of Toronto.

Sierra Club Volunteer Floris Ensink: ‘Where Nature Meets Society’

Diane Beckett — April 7, 2016

Whether in an urban landscape like Montreal, agricultural zones when he lived in the Netherlands, or on James Bay where he works now, he thrives on the challenge of coming up with solutions that help nature and people co-exist.

If Net-Zero Buildings Are the Goal, Building Codes Are the Lever

Diane Beckett — April 5, 2016

The clock is ticking on the next opportunity to introduce state-of-the-art national and provincial/territorial building codes that support the push to a post-carbon economy.

Consultation and Collaboration: What Ottawa Gains from Community Dialogue

Diane Beckett — March 30, 2016

Last week, I got a snapshot of a federal public service that is reinventing itself in real time.

We’re Winning Now. Let's Bring it Home.

Diane Beckett — March 22, 2016

We’ve been hearing for years that climate change is the defining challenge of our lifetimes. That our children and theirs will judge us by what we did to stop the melting ice caps and the rising seas. That we’ll know we’re serious about climate change when we’ve mounted a peaceful mobilization on the scale of the Second World War to build a post-carbon world.

Protecting the Earth Shouldn’t Be a Death Sentence

Diane Beckett — March 11, 2016

But, Berta Cáceres, the Honduran Indigenous and environmental rights campaigner, was murdered last week for protecting the earth, in spite of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights mandating she receive protection.

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