Free 45-minute movie that explains some of the most pressing and important political issues in the world today: Learn more about divestment from fossil fuel companies
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The environment
After a substantial delay, the full set of my photos from the Keystone XL protests in Washington D.C. in August and September of 2011 are now online.
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Here’s the actual abstract from “Acceleration of snow melt in an Antarctic Peninsula ice core during the twentieth century“, published in Nature Geoscience: “Over the past 50 years, warming of the Antarctic Peninsula has been accompanied by accelerating glacier mass loss and the retreat and collapse of ice shelves. A key driver of ice loss [...]
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Bonus: a demonstration of why I can’t just hand my camera to passers-by to take a picture After 32 years as the head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, climatologist James Hansen is retiring (New York Times, Nature). He now intends to devote more of his time and energy to pushing for action on [...]
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One element of developing Toronto350.org has been learning how to do complex cooperative work using a devoted group of volunteers. This afternoon, we are having a ‘bibliography party’ for our University of Toronto divestment brief. We will be taking all the sources people have collected and putting them into biblatex format. It will then be [...]
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Via: coastalfirstnations.ca
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If you want to get approval for a huge project with many risks and serious associated problems, one strategy is to get decision-makers to split up the question into tiny pieces. Forbid the people on one team from considering the issues another team is looking at. That way, you can prevent the consideration of interactions [...]
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On Tuesday night at 7pm, I am participating in a panel discussion organized by University of Toronto Environmental Action and featuring MPP Peter Tabuns, environmental activist Angela Bischoff, and School of the Environment and Munk Centre Professor Erich Vogt. Among other topics, we are meant to discuss: “How can young people get their voices heard [...]
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Mark Jaccard in The Walrus: “The Harper government supports accelerating the extraction of fossil fuels from our soil, which will send more carbon pollution into the atmosphere. Meanwhile, that same government brazenly assures Canadians that it will keep its 2020 and 2050 emission reduction promises. But I know these assurances are worthless, for the very [...]
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More than 1,300 people participated. Among the topics of discussion were divestment and the fight against oil sands pipelines.
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