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Earth Day demos and other actions | KenS said... . In tiny Kennetcook, Nova Scotia, population several hundred in the greater metropolitan...

Its Earth Week! What are your book/article/movie suggestions for all the issues surrounding environmentalism | lagatta said... Jan Gehl, for example "Cities for People" (Pour des villes à l'échelle humaine, in French. No idea...

NDP Socialist Caucus Presents Spring 2013 Edition of Turn Left/Virez a gauche | kropotkin1951 said... Nice painting of Queneesh in the K'ómoks First Nation's territory. Whose art work is that? in

Seed libraries | Michelle said... I went to some excellent lectures on Seedy Saturday here in Toronto at the Evergreen Brickworks....

The Un-Natural Gas Boom: A Bridge to Nowhere | KenS said... A very thorough run through on fracking. And despite being long [not unusual for this forum...

Why Doesn't Mountain Equipment Co-op Really Support the Environment | Boom Boom said... I don't know anything about MEC. Where is it based? in

Most extreme climate change predictions proven most accurate so far | NorthReport said... Carbon pollution up to 2 million pounds per second The amount of heat-trapping pollution the...

Win! Company gives up plans for Mega Quarry | Catchfire said... And much credit to our own Rebecca West for her continuous hard work in raising awareness for this...

Think Left, Invest Left: How to do that? | Max Horkheimer said... I checked up on David Suruki's website, and found a link to this: http://www.socialinvestment....

Climate Change: I don't want to talk about it | mmphosis said... Climate change should be an essential part of this year's election discussions (Letter) (mlive.com...

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Harper faces protest in New York City over Canada's dismal climate policies and Keystone XL | May 17 2013 | rabble staff | The Big Apple proved to be an unfriendly landing spot today for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose sales job for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline was interrupted climate activists.

Chevron calls for strong investor rights chapter in U.S.-EU trade deal | May 17 2013 | Stuart Trew | U.S. energy giant Chevron is encouraging the U.S. to pursue a strong NAFTA-like investment chapter and investor-state dispute settlement process in the proposed U.S.-EU trade deal.

Update on Building Resistance Tour about fracking and PTP | May 16 2013 | Maryam Adrangi | Since my last post on Saturday, we have made our way along the route of the Pacific Trails Pipeline, making presentations in both Smithers and Burns Lake.

Don't mourn, organize! For B.C.'s climate justice movement, the fight is just getting started | May 16 2013 | Cameron Fenton | Remember that there is no silver bullet solution, the NDP weren't one before this election and there certainly isn't one afterwards.

Design for Democracy: Parks over planes, planes over people | May 16 2013 | Elizabeth Littlejohn | Why is Porter, or any airline, allowed to expand its operations over treasured public assets -- our parks and lakes -- when it is duplicating international flights already provided by Pearson Airport?

Welcome to the Pliocene! On the meaning of 400ppm | May 15 2013 | Melanie Fitzpatrick | Reaching 400 parts per million for the first time in human history is a wake up call for all of us. The science is clear.

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip: 'Gold rush mentality' trumps human rights and social needs in B.C. vote | May 15 2013 | Jane Bouey | Today, many people in British Columbia -- and indeed across Canada -- are trying to determine just how the BC Liberals won the provincial election and what implications this surprise result will have.

International fact-finding mission on mining and water in El Salvador | May 14 2013 | Brent Patterson | Blue Planet Project campaigner Meera Karunananthan is currently on a fact-finding mission on mining and water in El Salvador. She is participating in an international delegation.

B.C. election: Vote 'yes' to green jobs and 'no' to Enbridge and Kinder Morgan pipelines | May 14 2013 | Ben West | We need people like George Heyman, the former Executive Director of the Sierra Club of BC, to get elected.

Being old ain't what it used to be | May 14 2013 | Elizabeth May | The CPP is sustainable and reliable, but it is time to review whether RRSP is working as a vehicle, argues Elizabeth May.

Visiting the Unist'ot'en Spring Camp on the Building Resistance Tour | May 13 2013 | Maryam Adrangi | Partway through the Building Resistance tour, we visited the Spring Work camp on Unist'ot'en territory located just outside of Houston, B.C.

The green part of green and the development of LNG in B.C. | May 13 2013 | Marvin Shaffer | There will be green and renewable energy industry pressure on whatever party forms the next government to force BC Hydro to develop or buy renewable energy we don't need and can't justify.

B.C. election: More vision needed for clean, green jobs | May 13 2013 | Andrew MacLeod | While the BC Liberals have stepped away from envisioning a greener economy, the NDP is saying little to fill the void, according to observers.

Video: Juno award-winner Dan Mangan joins growing movement against tar sands tankers | May 13 2013 | rabble staff | This Best-of-the-Net video features Canadian music star Dan Mangan, joining the growing chorus of voices opposed to the tar sands pipeline and tanker plans of Enbrige and Kinder Morgan.

'These two parties just don't understand': BC Green leader Jane Sterk on democracy and fossil fuels | May 13 2013 | David P. Ball | Where does the Green Party stand on the vote-splitting anxieties -- and on the NDP's promises to rein in oil pipelines and tankers? An interview with leader Jane Sterk.