Archive for June 3rd, 2008
NDP Takes Heat on Global Warming (in News)
Stance against carbon tax steams BC enviros.
EcoDensity in spotlight
Vancouver needs to achieve densities similar to European cities to
ensure its environmental and economic future, Mayor Sam Sullivan said
yesterday.
Activists pan water plan
B.C. introduced a provincial water plan yesterday that focuses heavily
on water conservation, but doesn’t do enough to protect the sources of
clean water from industrial activity, environmentalists…
The GHG Spot: Raise a Green Roof!
Have you seen this game “Raise a Green Roof!” our totally awesome creative department put together? …>
Protect Waterton-Glacier park, groups implore UN
Several leading environmental groups in the U.S. and Canada have written to the United Nations asking that proposed energy developments along British Columbia’s Flathead River be investigated as…
Food summit seeks ‘green revolution’ for Africa
A U.N. summit on the global food crisis
asked rich nations on Wednesday to help “revolutionize” farming
in Africa and the developing world to produce more food for
nearly 1 billion people facing…
U.S. green groups warn of oilsands ‘poison’
Environmental activists are warning U.S. lawmakers and consumers that the Canadian oilsands sector is an environmental disaster that is poisoning U.S refineries.
B.C. volunteers free whale tangled in fishing gear
A group of volunteers has freed a juvenile humpback whale that had become entangled in fishing gear and was nearing death in Clayoquot
Sound.
Green Days
After a day on the buses, today’s green challenge is to bike
to work. Even though there is a bike route that goes practically
door to door from my house to my office, I’ve never ridden to work.
In…
Modern vehicles clean up their act
Vehicles may be getting bigger and more powerful, but
manufacturers are getting better at reducing tailpipe pollutants,
according to a new study by the British Columbia Automobile
Association.
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