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Electric Vehicles Could be Worth $3.6 Billion to the Ontario Economy
The latest report from the Windfall Centre argues Ontario’s economy could benefit from the production of electric vehicles (EVs) to the tune of $3.6 billion by 2025.read more
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Toxic Assets: The Carbon Bubble
Investment managers are waking up to the fact that holding vast reserves in fossil fuel companies, especially for vital purposes such as pension funds, is an unacceptable risk for investors.read more
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The UnAtomic Age
Illustration by nik harron.Since the 2011 Fukushima catastrophe, the global decline in nuclear power has steepened. More than 20 countries are phasing out nuclear plants, have stopped the construction...
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Cold Rush
The Arctic is melting as a result of global warming, with sea ice shrinking at an alarming rate. Within 30 years, the Arctic Ocean is projected to be virtually free of summer sea ice. This has led to a...
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Why Environmentalists Should Promote a Guaranteed Basic Income
Several weeks ago, I watched Pride, a fascinating political drama documenting the true story of a few London-based gay rights campaigners who in 1984 decided to support some beleaguered striking Welsh...
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EcoMorphosis
When the first issue of Alternatives Journal rolled off the presses in 1971, the world was a very different place – politically and technologically.There was a self-conscious political left and the...
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THE METCALF FOUNDATION, an organization focused on helping Canadians build a just, sustainable and creative society, has produced a new report called Green Economy at Community Scale. Released in...
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Kuznets
TAKEN AS a matter of simple logic, the notion of infinitely continued expansion of material demands on a single biosphere is nuts. read more
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Recent Developments in Trade and the Environment
Ten minutes now could save you $508.05. That’s the hallucinatory price tag on Amazon for a volume enticingly titled Recent Developments in Trade and the Environment. Its 869 pages – many printed in...
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The Case for a Climate Fund
The Province of Ontario is currently soliciting advice on a new climate strategy to reach its carbon reduction targets of 15 per cent lower than 1990 levels by 2020, and 80 per cent lower by 2050....
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What's Worth More: Your Time or the Planet?
Waiting for the bus one morning on your way to work, you realize your reusable travel mug is at home. You’d rather not use another single-use plastic cup, but if you run back to grab it you’ll miss the...
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The Value Crisis: From Dollars to Democracy, Why Numbers are Ruining Our World
Andrew Welch has a thing about numbers. He loves them. But as he gradually began to see the connection between growing, multiple global crises and the lack of awareness surrounding the day-to-day human...
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Why Does Canada Hate Indigenous Rights? One Word: Oil.
Why does Canada hate Indigenous rights?Or, more properly, why has the government campaigned so hard to subdue the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), even when it’s now enshrined in a UN...
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What "Selma" Can Teach the Canadian Climate Movement
The movie Selma was released earlier this month to widespread critical acclaim. While the film is beautifully made and relatively true to the history it is based on, there’s another achievement that...
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Time to Share
WHILE GUIDING A GROUP of Danish tourists in the Manu Park region of the Peruvian Amazon in June 2012, William Huamani noticed something odd from their long boat on the Alto Madre de Dios river. “About...
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Big Oil Malaysia
Think Global is a blog series from Canada Conserves’ Chris Winter. During a year-long trip around the world with his family, Chris is sharing examples of how other countries are dealing with...
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A Leap in the Right Direction
Initiated at a two-day meeting last spring, the manifesto calls on Canada’s government to address issues facing our country today ranging from indigenous rights to increasing poverty to rampant...
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Toxic Assets: The Carbon Bubble
Investment managers are waking up to the fact that holding vast reserves in fossil fuel companies, especially for vital purposes such as pension funds, is an unacceptable risk for investors.read more
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Demystifying Sustainability: Towards Real Solutions
In their endorsement of Demystifying Sustainability, Paul and Anne Ehrlich state, “Sustainability may be the most important … and most misused word in our language. This brilliant, deep, accurate,...
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