Wealth

Will the wildlife-rich region of Fraser Valley, BC become just another paved-over, smog-infested, gridlocked hellhole for the benefit of the few rich and famous?

by Joe Foy

The hawk wheeled around the big cottonwood looking for a place to land – all the while a gang of smaller birds and crows tried to bully it out of the neighbourhood by making an awful racket and dive-bomb­ing its tail feathers.

But she gave them no notice and landed on one of the

by Nancy Myers

You’ve heard about the precautionary principle and how it came to be articulated and applied to environmental health, and how this simple principle brings with it a strong set of closely linked ideas and values and practices. In fact it must be applied broadly as well as narrowly. And you can’t take a precautionary approach without talking about both economics and ethics.

by Don Malcolm

The world’s most powerful governments are proud to declare that they are fi ghting a global war on poverty. They back their rhetoric with foreign aid in the form of massive expenditures of public money, surplus goods, and often, military assistance, commonly known as peacekeeping. 

Canada subsidizes logging. The sooner we acknowledge this and force our politicians to change the stumpage system and other forest policies, the sooner we can solve the softwood dispute and remove incentives that promote unsustainable logging throughout the country.

by Will Horter, Dogwood Initiative 

As the federal election heats up, Paul Martin, Stephen Harper and Jack Layton have all been talking tough about softwood lumber. 

by Don Malcolm

Money recognizes neither geographical nor political borders. It controls the fate and daily activities of populations throughout the world. While heaping riches on someone in Hong Kong or Rio de Janeiro, it may, at the same time, be destroying the fortune of someone in Halifax or Melbourne. Money is insensate

A proposed Liquid Natural Gas terminal and gas-powered electrical plant on Texada Island in Georgia Strait is one more example of a fatally-flawed economic system.

by Ray Grigg

An educated and discerning senior citizen, who is

by Barry Saxifrage

Air travel is the one major industry without an available technological solu­tion to climate change.

When I read in George Monbiot’s book, Heat, that there is no climate-compatible solution for high-speed air travel, I didn’t believe it. I couldn’t accept that the world must stop nearly all of its flying.

The process of refinement of petroleum.

by Arthur Caldicott

You know those coin sorters – a set of stacked trays punched with holes. Different sized holes for differ­ent coins. You toss your jar of coins in the top tray, shake them, and eve­rything falls through except twoonies, the biggest coin. All the remaining coins fall through the holes in the next tray, except loonies, then quarters, nickels, dimes, pennies? Oops, pen­nies, dimes.