I breathe blue and green and feel the air on my face while the wind pushes the clouds in their playful race the ponds are a sheer shelter for fishes and frogs while the crickets accompany the birds in their songs the river flows […]
The National Energy Board asked for comments on possible changes to environmental assessment for Energy East. I wrote this letter to urge them to widen their scope of climate impact assessment of the Energy East pipeline. They are considering including the changes in emissions in Canada, upstream from increase […]
Your body makes itself from the matter around you. What you eat, drink, inhale, touch, and experience literally becomes you. You are your environment, and it is you. Releasing toxic substances into the environment means injecting them into bodies, human and non-human. The climate system connects everyone’s environments. […]
Maude Barlow, National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians and E4A Advisory Board member, recently published an important booklet that exposes how Canada’s trade agreements put one of Canada’s natural treasures – its vast water resources – at great risk. Water for Sale: How Free Trade and Investment Agreements […]
Increase in global CO2 emissions since 1970
Average decline in population sizes of marine species over last 40 years
(http://www.worldwildlife.org/publications/living-blue-planet-report-2015)
The multiple of current species extinction rate relative to pre-human rate
