Yesterday I was having a chat with an employee at a Subway in Ottawa. I noticed the sign about vegies being unavailable because of weird weather. I commented on it, asking if this is a first. She said it had come up years ago, but she was surprised how long it had been up there.
Climate change? Maybe Subway shareholders should start donating to the Green Party of Canada so we can catch up on the rest of the world with real action on climate change.
Call it “risk mitigation”. Or job creation in a green economy.
And if Subway could instruct their employees to ask “Do you want a bag?” instead of “Is it to go?”, maybe they’d start saving on plastic.
Wow, this clip covering the launch of the BC-STV campaign fell short of being of public value and it was very one-sided.
The journalist (and whoever edited the clip) fell short of doing their job. Instead of showing how the ballot would look like, interviewing a member of the Citizens Assembly, pointing to where people can get more info (he could have stayed unbiased by showing the URLs of both yes and no campaigns), the journalist spent 29% (36 seconds) of the 126 second clip interviewing ignorant people about the referendum or being critical of the spending to educate the public on civic matters. (more…)
Amory Lovin’s Winning The Oil Endgame is available for download in PDF form. The Rocky Mountain Institute kindly asks for your name and e-mail address in return, but I think it is a fair deal given Amory Lovin’s work.
The Green Party of Canada released today its Vision Green. The policy document lays out the plan for the kind of Canada we want in 2020 and how we get to that point. It is a breath of fresh air and provides visionary leadership, not for the next four year, but for the next forty years. Here are some of the solutions addressing the various issues it covers: (more…)
The Canadian government is breaking its own environmental laws, and could get away with it if we don’t act within 24 hours. Last June, Parliament passed a law confirming our legal obligation to comply with the Kyoto Protocol, and gave a heel-dragging Harper government 60 days to show how they would do it. Harper’s plan is out, and meets Kyoto’s targets 13 years too late – it clearly breaks the law.Canadians are irate over this, but somehow everyone failed to notice the official public consultation period on the law, which ends tomorrow. The comments that Environment Canada receives in this period will be admissible in court, when the Harper government is brought before a judge on this. If there are no comments, the government will claim in court that the public supports its bogus plan. This argument has worked before, and we must not let it happen again. Please send a quick message to Environment Minister Baird, and tell everyone you know to act right away
The National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, an organization mandated to explore new opportunities to integrate environmental conservation and economic development, recommends in its interim report a carbon tax to encourage the reduction of green house gasses.
This recommendation follows simillar ones made by Mark Jaccard (C.D. Howe Institute), Don Drummond (chieft economist, TD Bank), the magazine The Economist, The Conference Board of Canada and many others. In effect, the study made by Mr. Jaccard demonstrated that such a tax would be benefit to the economy on the long term.
The Green Party of Canada is the only political party with the foresight and courage to call for such a tax. This initiative would be part of tax shifting: less payroll tax and income tax and a new tax on carbon. The end result is more jobs, more income and less pollution.
In effect, we believe that an economy which is ecologicaly sustainable is a healthy economy. We have been studying how to align ecological and economic goals together. We have the solutions for the challenges of the 21st century.
If you wish to see more jobs and less pollution, consider donating to the Green Party of Canada.
Below are the phone numbers for Ontario/Ottawa area senators. They will vote this week on weather or not to pass Bill C-288, which calls for the government to implement a plan respecting the Kyoto protocol. See this page for senators of other provinces or areas in Ontario. Each senator is assigned a province and some of them are assigned a city area.
Jim Munson - Parti libéral du Canada
Division sénatoriale: Ottawa / Canal Rideau
(613) 947-2504
Wilbert Joseph Keon - Parti conservateur du Canada
Division sénatoriale: Ottawa
(613) 943-1415
Consiglio Di Nino - Parti conservateur du Canada
Téléphone: (613) 943-1454
Art Eggleton - Parti libéral du Canada
Affaires sociales, sciences et technologie Président(e)
Finances nationales
(613) 995-4230
John Trevor Eyton - Parti conservateur du Canada
(613) 943-1460
Mac Harb - Parti libéral du Canada
Banques et commerce
Examen de la réglementation (mixte)
Téléphone: (613) 996-2379
Marjory LeBreton - Parti conservateur du Canada
(613) 943-0756