Penguin's Green Ideas series begins with 20 short books by writers from Rachel Carson to Greta Thunberg, which it calls "the classics that made a movement."
The author and activist is set to help develop the Centre for Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia — one of the first of its kind at a Canadian university.
Several hundred people helped kick off a national tour for a Green New Deal in Canada at the Bloor Street United Church in Toronto on Tuesday, one of roughly 150 town halls to be held across the country ahead of the federal election.
This is the terrain on which the great struggle of our time is being waged: who defines crisis, who benefits from it, and what is made invisible in the process. And we are not yet winning: this very same month saw plenty of genuine crises, all connected to climate breakdown, which made only time-limited appearances in our national debate.
Around 300 people braved rain and thunder on Burnaby Mountain today to demonstrate against Texas-based energy giant Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion.
As populism rises across North America, people must come together to challenge the system rather than wait for the “next electoral saviour,” says best-selling Canadian author Naomi Klein.