Invasive species are a problem with no easy solution,
and, in my experience, are so often misunderstood by the general public, so if
you’ll bear with me, I’ll start from the top.
We live in a...
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.
In a recent column, I expounded on the encouraging fact
that Canada’s electrical grid derives 67 per cent of its juice from renewable
sources, chiefly hydroelectric, wind and solar in descending order. If you
include nuclear, which is carbon free...
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...
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...
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...
It’s almost that time of year when we open our wallets
and let their contents scatter to the winds of consumerism, buying things we
almost certainly don’t need in order to enjoy the short lived thrill of
newness. I do...
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...
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...
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...