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Read articleRooftop Garden in Vancouver, first in North America
At 535 Richards Street, the first ever urban farming system is being built by a company called Alterrus. Crop production will occur year round, within a…
Read articleThe global mean temperature versus time graph is gonna get bad (very bad).
Not sure of the source. Do leave a comment, if you know.
Read articleCrowd-sourcing gone horribly, hilariously wrong.
Shell’s hip, innovative, crowd-sourcing initiative: Here at Shell, we’re committed to online social media. After all, it’s the fuel that lubricates the engines of internet communication.…
Read articleHere’s one way to adapt to climate change: Build underground ski resorts.
“In order to simulate actual outdoor skiing conditions, provisions are made to vary the steepness of the slope from place to place. In addition, facilities are…
Read articleHow do you make an effective moral case for climate action?
In the most recent edition of Nature Climate Change, Ezra Markowitz has a great article on our weak moral intuitions about climate change. Why do we…
Read articleEnbridge satire possibly pulled by newspaper because of fiscal pressure from Enbridge.
Apparently, a video made by the Province’s cartoonist, Dan Murphy, was forcibly pulled due to Enbridge pressure. According to the CBC, there’s a number of different…
Read articleGeorge Monbiot’s Guardian piece about the futility of Rio is worth a solemn read.
“Descent,” Josh Keyes, 2011 George, in a piece entitled “After Rio, we know. Governments have given up on the planet“, pretty much nails it. The Rio+20…
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SENSibility: O Sole Rio
By Allen Sens,
Vancouver, 28 June, 2012. The Rio+20 conference has come and gone, and it is time to engage in punditry. As the dust settles over yet another…
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