Hell yes, we should sue Big Oil
This might be too much to ask, but when elected officials roll out big climate initiatives, could they please be ready to comprehensively frame issues for the public? writes columnist Sandy Garossino.
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Sally Lin helps others reimagine their climate-friendly futures
The 24-year-old Vancouverite works for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) Futures Literacy program and is developing a climate career portal.
Raised in cattle country, Isha Datar now promotes cellular agriculture, meat grown in laboratories
Isha Datar has spent the last nine years pioneering New Harvest, a donor-funded American non-profit that’s a leading light of the lab-grown meat world.
“The planet already is 1.2 C hotter, yet new fossil fuel projects every day accelerate our race towards the precipice. Enough is enough."
The Vatican is endorsing the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty following earlier calls to divest from coal, oil and gas.
Meat grown in labs could keep carnivores happy and lower the carbon footprint of food production
With enough research and development, cellular agriculture should be able to produce animal products in labs for human consumption.
Untangling the relationship between fossil fuels and finance
One in five bank directors also serves on the board of a fossil fuel company, reveals an investigation by Canada's National Observer.
The meeting that could be Canada’s last chance to curb farm emissions
A meeting of Canada's agriculture ministers later this month could be pivotal in the fight against climate change, according to a national coalition of farmers.
How one Labrador community is taking energy into its own hands
Amid complex suggestions for ways to transition off diesel, is a community-led program in Black Tickle with a simple idea: high-efficiency wood stoves.
Natasha Edmunds creates a climate of listening
As the organizing director for the West Kootenay EcoSociety and Neighbours United, she leads teams that have already persuaded 13 regional municipalities to set climate pollution reduction targets in line with the Paris Agreement.
Beyond the climate crisis gloom and doom: The tipping point of hope
Is it possible we are nearing the tipping point of hope about the fate of our warming planet, finally poised to offset the negativism of the last decade?
Wild species relied on by billions at risk
A new United Nations-backed report says that overexploitation, climate change, pollution and deforestation are pushing one million species towards extinction.
UNESCO’s youth advocate pushes for cash to educate the world
Toronto teen philanthropist Kenisha Arora wants a UN summit on education in New York in September to believe in the magic of youth as it sets out to tackle pandemic-related education loss and profound structural flaws in systems worldwide.
Campaign ramps up to pressure one of Canada’s largest pension firms
The British Columbia Investment Management Corporation holds a total of $199.6 billion in managed assets and oversees retirement savings for the province's teachers, nurses, municipal workers and other government workers, according to its site.
TMX can tear down our treehouses, but not our mission
I’d been treesitting in protest of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (TMX) for months. While my friends and I were literally holding the fort, conservationists were doing critical work on the ground, writes Emily Kelsall.
‘Perfect storm’ of crises widening inequality, UN boss says
António Guterres says growing north and south divide is ‘morally unacceptable’ and dangerous.