Elizabeth MayEssentially, the bill would establish a strong plan with firm science-based targets that would address the dangerous climate change resulting from unchecked greenhouse emissions and help improve our…
We must protect British Columbia’s rugged northern coastline and coastal waters, the diversity of fish species and mammals, and the coastal communities that depend on a healthy fishing…
It was a nice way to end a year peppered with disappointments. In my last column for 2010, appearing on December 9, I wrote about the inspiring work…
From December 7–18 in Copenhagen, Denmark, the United Nations will be holding the most significant climate negotiation since 1992 when the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)…
For the first time in the history of the United Nations, the member nations of the world community did not support Canada’s bid to be on the Security…
It is axiomatic that a new technology is introduced to the media and the public by those who have developed it. And, that they are the very people…
It seems a lot longer than a year ago that I wrote my first column in Island Tides, ‘From cod to salmon: when do we ever learn?’ Last…
The latest flashpoint in the long-standing conflict over the loss of Canadian corporations to foreign buyers is over potash. Potash is the stuff from which industrial fertilizers are…
Salt Spring Island’s climate hero, Dorothy Cutting, gave me Bill McKibben’s new book “Eaarth,” and I set it aside to read on my cross country train trip. Crossing…
The somewhat informal, but institutionalized annual meetings of the G-8 have been held in Canada only four times over the last three decades. Starting in the late 1970s,…
Remember the US Republican Convention in 2008? Ecstatic delegates chanted ‘Drill! Baby, Drill!’, led by a euphoric Sarah Palin; she of Alaska who yearns to destroy the calving…
On April 7, the Council of Canadians Victoria Chapter hosted an event focussing on Politics, International Trade Deals and Climate. The panel for this topic was a wonderful…
The striking thing about the 2010 federal budget as a physical document is its colour scheme. Its cover matches the ubiquitous Canada’s Economic Action Plan logo—shades of blue…
The post-COP15 perspectives and analyses have been grim and negative. It could hardly be otherwise. Much of the media has been focussed on finding blame. On December 22,…
As I write this, the 15th Conference of the Parties has reached Day 3, and I am home in Sidney. By the time you read this, I will…
The mainstream news media loves the ‘man bites dog’ story. Anything counter-intuitive is more likely to be front page news. So too, does the media like ‘debunking’ environmental…
British Columbia may have no other animal as iconic as the wild salmon. Creature of deep forest streams, raging rivers and open ocean, the wild salmon feeds the…