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UK Offset Standard is Off Target

A new government “kitemark” suggests that most carbon offset schemes are flawed, but fails to address the more fundamental problem of paying others to clean up after us Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit...

Land Rights Not Mining Rights: Free Robert Lovelace and the KI 6

A meeting to defend Aboriginal Rights: Wednesday April 9th, Toronto Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend...

Will Capitalism Survive Climate Change?

“Climate change is both a threat and an opportunity to bring about the long postponed social and economic reforms that had been derailed or sabotaged in previous era” By Walden Bello There is now a solid consensus in the scientific community that if...

Corporations and Climate Change: From Denial to Greenwash

Global warming, General Motors’ vice-chairperson of global product development Robert A. Lutz told reporters in a closed-door meeting in January, is “a total crock of shit” Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on...

The True Cost of Biofuels

A major study published by The Nature Conservancy and University of Minnesota concludes that land clearing releases 17 to 420 times as much carbon dioxide as is replaced by using the biofuel produced from that cleared land. Share:Click to share on...

Environmental Activists Win Two Victories in British Columbia

Protests stop a private hydro-electric megaproject and win a moratorium on salmon farming Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to...

79% of Canadians Want an Immediate Hard Cap on Emissions

Conservative and Liberal governments are out of touch with the majority Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a...

Carbon Trading: An Ecosocialist Critique

Despite its popularity among advocates of market solutions to global warming, carbon trading cannot produce the quantitative and qualitative changes that the world needs Share:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit...