Clean Energy, Not Climate Change

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has decided to focus on clean energy rather than on climate change, reports the Guardian.  Ban Ki-moon will still be involved with international climate change negotiations, and recently called on the world’s major powers to stop playing politics and reach a climate change agreement...

Biodiversity 100

The Guardian has published Biodiversity 100, a list of places in our world that require immediate preservation. The list calls on G20 countries to preserve and protec...

Our Days After Earth Day 2010

The 40th annual Earth Day was a success, with an estimated one billion people in 190 countries participating in some way, according to Earth Day’s we...

Weather and Wildlife

Do you ever read a news item that makes you go “hhmmm”?  Recently, several news items from the world of wildlife had that effect on me. The first was ...

Adapting to Climate Change

In the shadow of the climate changes that are occurring, and the lack of a binding agreement emerging from Copenhagen, some leading humanitarian groups ar...

Caring About Climate Change

If you drove through Vancouver’s Kerrisdale today, or one of many other neighborhoods across North America, you may have noticed groups of people holding signs about climate change.  The group I stopped to chat with was led by Janette McIntosh of KAIROS...