I probably won’t say anything here you don’t already
know in your bones, but here goes - the banks of the world financing fossil
fuels has been climatically imprudent for some time, and is now officially
immoral.
I started birding by accident, intent on spending a
year identifying the trees of Eastern Canada, and instead falling in love with
their feathered residents.
In the space of a couple of weeks, I went from...
There’s a lot to be said about Bill 213, the so-called
Sustainable Development Goals Act which represents our province’s impressive
though imperfect contribution to national efforts on climate change, passed in
late October.
The purpose of the...
Let’s go back to 2013 when our provincial government,
in partnership with numerous stakeholders, created the Parks and Protected
Areas Plan. It was an inspired document, identifying huge tracts of land which
were ripe for formal protection either as wilderness...
We often talk in terms of expunging fossil fuels from
our energy diet, which can frame the discussion in a negative and at times
contentious light. More often we should be talking in terms of adding clean
energy, and acknowledge...
Let me start by saying that planting trees, by the
millions or billions as promised by various world leaders, is an excellent
idea. These miraculous plants have the power not only to stabilize soil, purify
water, shelter biodiversity, improve public...
“Remote islands are Canada’s most endangered
ecosystem,” said Ian Jones, a professor of biology with Memorial University who
specializes in seabirds and island conservation.
An island qualifies as remote if its ecosystem formed
more or less in...
I find it exhausting when we declare problems
unsolvable, as though dedicated dollars and engineering haven’t already granted
us the gifts of flight, cell phones and space travel.
By comparison, the things we have yet to...
Put simply, conservation works. When government takes
the time to understand a species’ decline and cooperate with local NGOs to
enact timely and meaningful change, the most at-risk species under their
purview recover. Go figure.
A 2005...
How, then, to reconcile the uncomfortable realities of
modern mining with those of climate change, environmental integrity and the
rights of Canadians to health and natural beauty? It’s a messy maze at best,
but Jamie Kneen of MiningWatch Canada, a...