Happy Earth Day
A cool – I mean hot – animation from http://www.repoweramerica.org/ For a little Canadian flavor to the carbon tax vs. cap-n-trade debate, you can read this…
Read articleUS Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL.) on Climate Change
March 2009, US Subcommittee on Energy and Environment: “The Earth will end only when God declares it is time to be over.” “There is a theological…
Read articleUBC’s Climate Action Plan
What’s your vision for how UBC can tackle the challenges of climate change on campus? On March 13th, 2008, President Toope, along with BC’s five other…
Read articleThis is incredibly disappointing
A NASA satellite designed to track carbon dioxide emissions has landed in the ocean near Antarctica after failing to reach orbit early Tuesday. […] The OCO…
Read articleRay Pierrehumbert, climatologist and RealClimate blogger, is giving a talk at UBC
One of the scientists behind the award winning RealClimate.org blog, a “…commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists,”…
Read articleLuntz Memo, Senator Inhofe
This also came up in class tonight: the infamous Luntz Memo: You can download the pdf here (via the Environmental Working Group). Here’s a bit (wiki)…
Read articlePayback
I just finished Margaret Atwood’s latest book, Payback – Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth. She was recently here at UBC to deliver part two…
Read articleGarbage, garbage, everywhere
I found a few pages of a discarded Vancouver Sun the other day on the bus, and was kind of disturbed by an article about “islands…
Read articleWe stand on guard for thee.
Canadian environmental policy is an issue of human rights. We pride ourselves as defenders of human life, dignity and equity and espouse these ideals internationally. Scratch…
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Visualizing Your Carbon Footprint: A Six Story Compressed Gas Cylinder
By Dave Semeniuk,
I’m not sure why that I have waited this long to calculate my carbon footprint. After inputting my information to the calculator at goBEYOND, it spit…
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