Independent.co.uk Online (December 10 2007)

BP, the British oil giant that pledged to move “Beyond Petroleum” by finding cleaner ways to produce fossil fuels, is being accused of abandoning its “green sheen” by investing nearly GBP 1.5 billion to extract oil from the Canadian wilderness using methods which environmentalists say are part of the “biggest global warming crime” in history. (Keep reading…)

October 31, 2007 Socialist Worker

THE MEDIA verdict on this disaster seems to be that the federal government and the state and local authorities did a great job, and everyone who evacuated to the Qualcomm football stadium is getting the royal treatment. What’s left out of this picture? (Keep reading…)

TheTyee.ca October 31, 2007

Miloon Kothari, the UN Special Rapporteur for Housing, recently visited Canada on a fact-finding mission to look at the issues of homelessness, Aboriginal housing issues, women’s housing issues and the impact of the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver. Mr. Kothari granted this interview during his recent visit. (Keep reading…)

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There is something surreal about this election, for none of you has had to fundamentally justify your pronuclear policies. Saskatchewan is now the major front-end uranium supplier of the global nuclear system, and this issue demands public scrutiny. (Keep reading…)

Vancouver Sun October 26, 2007

Ottawa — The planet is in danger of crossing a “tipping point” of irreversible damage to its atmosphere, climate, water and ecosystems unless governments can develop comprehensive strategies to promote sustainable growth, warns a new report released Thursday by an environmental advocacy branch of the United Nations. (Keep reading…)

From The Guardian, October 5, 2007

By Julian Borger

A record number of floods, droughts and storms around the world this year amount to a climate change “mega disaster”, the United Nation’s emergency relief coordinator, Sir John Holmes, has warned. Sir John, a British diplomat who is also known as the UN’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, said dire predictions about the impact of global warming on humanity were already coming true. “We are seeing the effects of climate change. Any year can be a freak but the pattern looks pretty clear to be honest. That’s why we’re trying … to say, of course you’ve got to deal with mitigation of emissions, but this is here and now, this is with us already,” he said. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension Magazine, September/October 2007

Canada’s federal government is fiddling while the world burns. The Tories’ “Action Plan” to deal with climate change, announced by Environment Minister John Baird on April 26, is actually a recipe for inaction and delay. (Keep reading…)

Monbiot.com August 21,2007

The climate camp at Heathrow is materially different from protests that have taken place in Britain before. (Keep reading…)

the Guardian August 14, 2007

Is it time to consider a ban on the adverts which help to cook the planet? (Keep reading…)

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The most ubiquitous consumer item on Earth, the lowly plastic bag is an environmental scourge like none other, sapping the life out of our oceans and thwarting our attempts to recycle it. By Katharine Mieszkowski (Keep reading…)