Culture, Curiosities, & Humour
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CanadaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationCulture, Curiosities, & HumourDemand & DistributionEnergy Access & EquityEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationJobs & TrainingJurisdictionsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionSub-National Governments
Basic Income, Just Transition Depend on Each Other, Regehr Says
Sheila Regehr has been chair of the Basic Income Canada Network since 2014. She’s a retired federal public servant with years of experience working ... -
Air & MarineAuto & Alternative VehiclesCanadaCarbon Levels & MeasurementClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationCulture, Curiosities, & HumourDemand & DistributionEnergy Access & EquityFinance & InvestmentHuman Rights & MigrationInternational Agencies & StudiesJobs & TrainingJurisdictionsTransit
‘Extreme Carbon Inequality’ Has Wealthiest Driving Climate Crisis: Oxfam Report
The richest 10% of the world’s population accounted for more than half of humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and 2015, and the richest ... -
Climate & SocietyCulture, Curiosities, & HumourJurisdictionsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionUnited States
New York City Climate Clock Counts Down Remaining Carbon Budget to 1.5°C
With Climate Week NYC kicking off a week of virtual events today, a well-known public art installation at New York’s Union Square has been ... -
Air & MarineCarbon Levels & MeasurementCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyCulture, Curiosities, & HumourDemand & Distribution
Virtual Meetings Trend Must Continue Post-Pandemic, Academics Conclude
Academics must adopt virtual meetings as a climate solution with the same urgency that they responded to the coronavirus pandemic, neuroscientist Chloe Jordan and ... -
CanadaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationCulture, Curiosities, & HumourHuman Rights & MigrationJurisdictionsMedia, Messaging, & Public Opinion
In Conversation: Action on Climate, Environmental Justice Begins with Empathy and Dialogue, Sitnick Says
Jessie Sitnick is vice president, corporate and public affairs at Argyle, a self-described “aspiring conversation nudger”, and a leading voice for connecting climate action ... -
CanadaCarbon Levels & MeasurementCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsCulture, Curiosities, & HumourDemand & DistributionEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentFirst PeoplesHuman Rights & MigrationJobs & TrainingJurisdictionsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National GovernmentsSupply Chains & ConsumptionTar Sands/Oil Sands
The Battle Plan: Key Lessons from the Second World War for the Climate Mobilization (Part 2)
This is the second of two excerpts from Seth Klein’s A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency, published in early September and ... -
CanadaCarbon Levels & MeasurementCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsCulture, Curiosities, & HumourDemand & DistributionEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentFirst PeoplesHuman Rights & MigrationJobs & TrainingJurisdictionsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionSub-National GovernmentsSupply Chains & Consumption
The Battle Plan: Key Lessons from the Second World War for the Climate Mobilization (Part 1)
This is the first of two excerpts from Seth Klein’s A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency, published in early September and ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatBuildingsCarbon-Free TransitionCitiesClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationCulture, Curiosities, & HumourDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEncoreFinance & InvestmentFood SecurityForests & DeforestationInternational Agencies & StudiesJobs & TrainingJurisdictionsOceansSupply Chains & Consumption
Nature-Friendly Economy Would Deliver $10 Trillion in Opportunities, 395 Million Jobs by 2030
A “fundamental transformation” in the direction of a nature-friendly global economy could produce US$10 trillion in annual business opportunities and a mind-boggling 395 million ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyCulture, Curiosities, & HumourDemand & DistributionDemand & EfficiencyEnergy SubsidiesJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryRenewable EnergyUnited States
Plug-In Hybrids Miss Their Carbon Targets as Owners Fail to Charge Batteries
A new study in the journal Environmental Research Letters gets at the strange and vexing question of why some car owners in the United ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatBuildingsCarbon-Free TransitionCitiesClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationCulture, Curiosities, & HumourDemand & DistributionElectricity GridFinance & InvestmentFood SecurityForests & DeforestationInternational Agencies & StudiesJobs & TrainingJurisdictionsOceansSupply Chains & Consumption
Nature-Friendly Economy Would Deliver $10 Trillion in Opportunities, 395 Million Jobs by 2030
A “fundamental transformation” in the direction of a nature-friendly global economy could produce US$10 trillion in annual business opportunities and a mind-boggling 395 million ... -
Editorial Pans Branson’s ‘Utterly Pointless’ Supersonic Jet Plans
Nearly 43 years after the Concorde’s inaugural flight, Sir Richard Branson and his beleaguered Virgin Galactic are joining forces with Rolls-Royce to build another ... -
CanadaCulture, Curiosities, & HumourFinance & InvestmentJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Alberta Mismanages Heritage Fund, Misses Out on $575B in Revenue Over 44 Years
Successive Alberta governments over the last 44 years have mismanaged their way out of C$575 billion in revenue that should have been available to ... -
Arctic & AntarcticaCanadaClimate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"CoalCulture, Curiosities, & HumourFinance & InvestmentJurisdictionsOil & GasTar Sands/Oil SandsUnited States
Pandemic Doesn’t Blunt Financial Sector Interest in Lower-Carbon Investments
Although the financial sector’s commitments to climate accountability and greater transparency only began to pick up major momentum in the months before the coronavirus ... -
Climate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"Culture, Curiosities, & HumourMedia, Messaging, & Public Opinion
Use Pride, Not Guilt to Drive Faster Climate Action, Researcher Urges
People are more likely to pay more for energy-efficient appliances, take public transit, or use reusable shopping bags and mugs if they’re feeling proud ... -
Climate & SocietyCulture, Curiosities, & HumourJurisdictionsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionUnited States
Treat Lack of Hope as a Catalyst for Action, Utne Urges
Hopelessness doesn’t have to be an endpoint out of which nothing good can come, writes veteran civil rights and environmental justice campaigner and publisher ...
