aggregated from: North Vancouver Politics.com

My letter following was published in the North Shore Outlook on Thursday, October 29:I write in response to Daniel Pi's excellent article regarding the final approval of the Hynes Development Project (Seylynn Village). North Shore Outlook, Oct. 22.Th...

aggregated from: North Vancouver Politics.com

I have spent many hours going through the DNV Council candidates' websites, answers to questions by FONVCA, and have attendedall-candidates meetings. They are all saying the same things. The incumbents are talking about affordable housing, homelessne...

topics: bc-rail, density, pollution, sustainability, transportation

aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

Friends of the Earth U.S. released a new report today calling the use of international carbon offsets a dangerous distraction” that could lead to climate disaster if relied upon too heavily as the U.S. Senate returns to debate energy and climat...

topics: economy, emissions, global-warming, greenhouse-gas, investment

aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

gavel.jpg The US Chamber of Commerce filed papers this week in Federal Court seeking to put climate science on trial” - based on many of the same arguments that have been making the rounds for ...

topics: agriculture, climate-change, cope, environment, global-warming

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

Danny Westneat is a Seattle Times columnist and he has doubts about the US cash for clunkers program. Now, to be clear, their program is designed for the current US problems and is not nearly as well thought out as our own Scrap-it program. The US ...

topics: business, design, environment, politics, pollution

aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

2825430279_905a6edc2c.jpg In the latest sally in the war between pro-coal-at-any-cost and anti-mountaintop mining (MTR) advocates, Arch Coal subsidiary Coal-Mac, Inc., of Holden, West Virginia, has ...

topics: environment, environmental, mining, pollution, sierra-club

aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

Youth climate activists struck again last week, calling on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to stop the proposed Alberta Clipper pipeline that would suck filthy tar sands into the U.S.” from Canada.Last Friday, the Avaaz Action Factory, a loo...

topics: global-warming, greenpeace, pollution, protestors

aggregated from: Langley Politics Dotcom

Last week, I came across this blog post on The Dirt, called How to Design Resilient Cities. Wherever you stand on the issues of peak oil or climate change, I think there's merit in exploring how a community like ours can become more energy-efficien...

topics: abbotsford, climate-change, design, ecological, elected

aggregated from: TheTyee.ca

How transit mechanics united to demand cleaner air. Third in a reader-funded series. ...

topics: pollution, transit

aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

Car Emissions.jpg The Obama administration recently granted California the right to enforce its first-in-the-nation greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars and trucks, after announcing plans in M...

topics: economy, election, emissions, global-warming, greenhouse-gas