Category: environment

Canada disaster capitalism economics environment financial crisis hydrogen net neutrality oil Politics tar sands tax issues The Corporation US economy
January 18, 2009

Rex Murphy: Where to Spend?

Rex Murphy, host of the national CBC show called "Cross Country Checkup", is asking Canadians tonight where they should spend their money. You can all hang up.  I have the top 10 answers. Stop spending any more money on fossil fuels or things that burn fossil fuels.  It’s stupid. Understand that we have an opportunity to institute structural change:  invest in green and invest lots.  […]

economics environment Food/diet
January 6, 2009

Green America: 7 Fixes for the Green Economy

Green America (was Co-op America) has added 7 recommendations for a new Green Economy. The original link can be found here. Here’s a quick summary of the 7 fixes: Green Energy = Green Jobs Clean Energy ‘Victory Bonds’ (I would buy these!) Reduce, Reuse, Rethink (hint: consumerism is not the answer) Go Green, Fair Trade, Local (Use the National Green Pages index – is there […]

environment
January 5, 2009

No New Nukes for Ontario Please

Nuclear power is an incredible waste of taxpayer’s money. Rarely have we seen the full promised potential of nuclear power, the cost overruns have always been well beyond anyone’s wildest imagination and the risks of dealing with waste greatly outweigh any described benefits of nuclear power. However, it’s very likely that the McGuinty government in Ontario will sign agreements in the spring of 2009 to […]

economics environment oil tar sands tax issues
January 4, 2009

The Green Shift was the right thing to do

According to James Hensen of NASA, a ‘green shift’ was the right thing for Canadians to do. This article reminds us that we blew an opportunity to institute a new system for penalizing polluters.  Instead, we blew it because some of us were wooed by a blue sweater vest and the rest of us were too busy bickering amongst ourselves to get a majority for […]

Canada environment The Corporation
December 20, 2008

Canada: Reaching up to touch bottom

Canada’s environmental policy (or lack thereof) has come under scrutiny yet again, this time in Poznan, Poland.  Last week, at the summit that would help determine some of the terms of the follow-up to the Kyoto Protocol, Canada again deferred to the worst polluters in the world and said we couldn’t do something until they did. I can’t get my head around the stupidity of […]