Comments on: B.C. Climate Action Dividend

By: Climate action withdrawn » a sibilant intake of breath

Climate action withdrawn » a sibilant intake of breath — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:47:20 +0000

[...] Government of British Columbia has suddenly decided to retract my Climate Action Dividend (discussed here before). Previously, they had decided to issue them to anyone who filed a provincial tax return in 2006 or [...]

By: anita

anita — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:04:39 +0000

Hi, I was in the same situation as you….lived in BC until December of 2007, so I received a 100 dollar cheque too. Today, I received a bill for the 100 dollars back because they changed the year of eligibility to 2007. Hope you saved your 100 because you will be getting a bill to pay it back too.

By: .

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:45:24 +0000

Now here's the $440 million question: How much of it will actually go from peoples' pocket to "climate action," and how much towards beer, pizza or other every-day consumerism? (And oh yes, there are so many other questions, like how many social housing units could it build, how many buses could it buy?)

By: Milan

Milan — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:24:41 +0000

I am spending about 1/3 of it on dimmable compact fluorescent bulbs.

The rest, I have not decided about.

By: Padraic

Padraic — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:35:05 +0000

I would donate the money to the Green Shift. I’ve never been a fan of the Liberals, but I am excited enough by this policy to give up my time, money and vote. All your virtuous action will be meaningless if we don’t have binding policies!

By: Alena Prazak

Alena Prazak — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:01:24 +0000

How about sending a child to a camp in nature?

By: Alena Prazak

Alena Prazak — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:59:06 +0000

How about sending a child to a nature camp?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:02:44 +0000

I broadly agree with the previous comment. Failing that, you could choose to buy more environmentally friendly clothing & put the cash towards that – eg. organic cotton instead of regular cotton, lovely wool socks or thermal undies instead of smelly ones made of plastic etc. There’s an extra bonus here, insofar as having really good gear makes walking and cycling reasonably pleasurable in weather that would once have sent you bus-wards.

By: Litty

Litty — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:06:53 +0000

You do enough for the climate.

Spend the money on something fun.

By: Emily

Emily — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:17:07 +0000

Partially related.. But totally insane and inexplicable. And sexy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS9MlCgtpMU

By: Emily

Emily — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:08:50 +0000

You could also put it towards a more energy efficient lap-top. The University of Pennsylvania did a short survey on the amount of energy (measured in watts) that specific makes and models of desktop computers and laptops use:

http://www.upenn.edu/computing/provider/docs/hardware/p owerusage.html

By: Emily

Emily — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:02:58 +0000

You could also look into investing some or all of your $$$ in renewable energy, such as solar:

http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/03/05/solar-power-in vestments-warming-up/

* Sunpower Corporation (NASDAQ: SPWR), the Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE: CY) spin off, makes semiconductors for solar cells and solar panels
* MEMC Electronic Materials Inc (NYSE: WFR) makes the polysilicon that is needed to manufacture the solar cells and panels based on semiconductor technology
* Suntech Power Holdings (NYSE: STP), First Solar Inc (NASDAQ: FSLR), Canadian Solar Inc (NASDAQ: CSIQ) and Trina Solar (NYSE: TSL) were other stocks mentioned.