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Hope is a 'powerful political act' for environmental activists facing despair
Lauren Scott | "Hope Matters" author Elin Kelsey questions the singular doom-and-gloom narrative, arguing that "evidence-based hope" can help advocates find solutions and push harder for climate justice.
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Bringing questions of justice to the heart of struggles for climate action
Scott Neigh | Laura Hamilton talks about her trajectory in the climate movement, from an initial focus on divestment to her current radical commitment to climate justice.
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Concrete is everywhere. It's also terrible for the planet
Daniel Aureliano Newman | A new book captures the wonders of concrete but equivocates on the damage it does to the environment.
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Should Canada treat climate crisis like a war?
Robert Hackett | Seth Klein's "A Good War" is the book every climate-concerned Canadian has been waiting for.
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Opening up -- what are the next steps for progressive movements?
Victoria Fenner | rabble's latest webinar focused on strategies for the way forward during COVID-19. Listen to our panelists share their perspectives.
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If corporations have legal rights, why not rivers?
David Suzuki | In considering how to make systems more equitable and sustainable, one change underpins all others: a change in our relationship with nature.
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'The Imperilled Ocean' makes climate change all about us
Daniel Aureliano Newman | Laura Trethewey's lively book pitches human-scale stories as portals into world-sized issues, but the stories don't cohere.
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'Beyond Climate' ventures to the heart of a rapidly heating B.C.
David Suzuki | Ian Mauro's award-winning film, "Beyond Climate," takes viewers past the headlines and into the heart of the climate challenges and opportunities facing B.C.
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'Farmers for Climate Solutions' -- balancing economic and ecological sustainability
Victoria Fenner | Stewart Wells talks about changes he's observed on his Saskatchewan farm related to climate change, and why he's involved in a new group of farmers and farm organizations to be part of a solution.
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Climate change -- a priority issue for CUPW
Scott Neigh | Dave Bleakney of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers talks about how his union is responding to the climate crisis, and about December's UN climate conference in Madrid.
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What do we do when our home is on fire?
David Suzuki | As Greta Thunberg warns, our home is on fire. But politicians and industry keep expanding fossil fuel development, trying to cash in before markets fall in the face of alternatives and climate chaos.
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New book fights neoliberal consensus on climate change
Sophia Reuss | "A Planet to Win" argues that the activist left must popularize a new moral and political calculus, one aimed at building a world where all people can live a good life.