Stuff From Other Environmental Groups (November)
FROM ECOJUSTICE
Ecojustice is one of Charity Intelligence’s Top 100 charities for 2021!
Thermal Coal Exports: Check out this video for local and global health impacts! Also, sign their petition to stop it in Canada!
Chlorpyrifos: This toxic pesticide is banned in Europe and the U.S. – but Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency has decided NOT to ban it. Ecojustice is asking the federal court to find this decision unlawful!
FROM CBC NEWS “WHAT ON EARTH?”
Find old issues here!
An Interesting Car Ad: This car commercial is very effective, just not in the way you're expecting!
****End The Excuses: live-action video message to humanity from Frankie the dinosaur. Worth watching!
Home Energy Audit: Read up on how to get the most out of a one!
FROM CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT (CAPE):
Ban THOSE Ads: CAPE is planning to launch a campaign to ban advertising and sponsorship by the fossil fuel industry. Support their efforts!
COVID Pandemic Follow-up: Discover CAPE's 5 lessons and proposed actions >
FROM POLIS WATER SUSTAINABILITY PROJECT
The Top Environmental Issue in B.C. is Water: 77% want industry to pay more to secure and restore BC’s watersheds. Here's the full news release and the 2021 report!
FROM INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (IISD)
Clean Energy Transition: This article has 5 steps and spells out the way forward!
FROM WEST COAST CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK (WE-CAN)
The B.C. Climate Emergency Campaign: 200 organizations have endorsed the Open Letter, representing more than a million British Colombians. Here are a few ways in which you can play your part and encourage others to do so (Signing the Open Letter, meeting with your MLA, etc.)!
Sign Now - Protect Old Growth Forests from Logging: The last giants are falling in British Columbia. Old growth forests, home to tall, ancient trees, are still being commercially logged. Now, less than 1% of forests in B.C. are home to stands of large, old trees. Sign the petition urging the B.C. government to act now to ban logging for the most at-risk old growth forests!
Canada’s ‘Carbon Tax’ vs International Gas Taxes: Italy, Norway, Britain, and Germany's gas taxes are at least $550 per tCO2…. $400 more per tCO2 than Canada levies! For the full analysis, go here.
Berlin’s Car Ban: ‘It’s about how we want to live, breathe and play’. Here's a petition to forbid private car use in an area equal in size to London’s zones 1 and 2…it has already collected 50,000 backers in Berlin!
Canadians Have the Highest Footprint (Per Capita) in the World: To help prevent an unlivable world, people in rich countries must all drive less, eat less meat and inhabit smaller spaces, says a new report.
The Advertising Industry is Fuelling the Climate Disaster: “The amount we consume needs to drop dramatically. Yet every day we’re told to consume more – it’s 'brain pollution' via advertising that, uncontrolled, fuels over consumption. And the problem is getting worse.” For the full Guardian article, go here!
Less Of Everything is the Only Way to Avert Catastrophe: Check out this Guardian article here!