18 September 2007
Gloria Flora
One conference speaker was Gloria Flora, who became something of an environmentalist hero when, as an employee of the U.S. Forest Service she stood up to higher ups and refused to rubber stamp proposals to allow gas wells into the Bob Marshall Wilderness, a protected area along the Rocky Mountain front range in Montana. She's been on the lecture circuit for some time-- I remember she came to my college, in the late 1980s.
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Worthwhile
Lest I be criticized as always being down on everything, let me just say up front that this Power of Green conference is worthwhile, on several fronts.
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Green Fleet
Q. When is "green" not green? A. When you're driving a car instead of taking a bus, no matter how fuel efficient that car is. Which brings us to Rodney MacDonald's announcement yesterday that the province will implement a "green fleet" policy.
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15 September 2007
GHG Numbers
Partly in answer to Marcel in the previous post's comment section, here are some hard numbers, illustrating exactly how the provincial government has first, passed a law requiring a ten percent below-1990 target for greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and second, is adopting a regulatory framework for Nova Scotia Power that will make it impossible to meet that target.
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13 September 2007
Since you're here...
Welcome to all the locals directed here by this week's column! Documentation mentioned in that column can be found in the next post down. But since you're here, I'd really like to hear from you. What are the issues, environmental and otherwise, that you'd like to see discussed? What can this blog do to help bring discussion of those issues to a broader audience? Toss whatever commnents move you my way, and I'll see what I can do.
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Nova Scotia and greenhouse gases: documentation
I've mentioned quite a bit in this week's Sustainable City column, all of which needs expanding on. That's a tall order, and it's a big reason for this blog's existence: I'd like to get more fully into these issues over time.
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11 September 2007
The disappearing Arctic ice
On the heals of yesterday's post about the disappearing Greenland ice cap, there's this news article about the disappearing Arctic ice:
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10 September 2007
Is the Greenland ice sheet collapsing?
The Greenland ice cap appears to be melting faster than previously thought. At least, that the gist of the round of recent news articles.
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09 September 2007
Pathways
The Ecology Action Centre document I reference in this week's Sustainable City column, Pathways to Sustainable Energy Prosperity in Nova Scotia, is here.
This is a publication of the Ecology Action Centre. Please consider joining the organization, or dropping them $10 to offset research and publication costs. Reach EAC here.
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08 September 2007
Whales
Canadian shipping lane change idea would do right by whales
By ALISON AULD The Canadian Press
An area off the East Coast that teems with endangered North Atlantic right whales will be given special protections against container traffic if a unique Canadian initiative is adopted by an international marine agency.Transport Canada, Environment Canada and scientists who study the rare animals have submitted a proposal to the International Maritime Organization recommending that container ships divert around the Roseway Basin southwest of Nova Scotia.
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05 September 2007
Community College
This morning CBC radio broadcast from the new Community College in Dartmouth. Much was made of the new building's eco-friendly design and operation which, according to a press release from the college, includes:
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23 August 2007
Naming the rape victim
A woman working alone at an all-night Ultramar gas station in Dartmouth was assaulted early Tuesday morning. The event rightly made the news, as the attack was particularly ugly -- the woman was reportedly raped, had her throat slit "from ear to ear" and was left for dead -- and raised important issues of protection for late-night workers. It's the legitimate-- essential, in my view-- role of the media to report on and discuss these issues.
But while many news outlets did good work ferreting out the issues, something else made the news: the rape victim's name.
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22 August 2007
Coal posts coming soon
I'm falling behind, but those promised coal posts will be up soon. Please come back!
14 August 2007
Nova Scotia's Power Plants
My column this week (to be published Thursday) will look at how the Nova Scotia government deals with, or rather, doesn't deal with our coal problem. Anticipating that, I'll give some background material here over the next few days to round out the discussion. First up, the dimensions of the problem:
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13 August 2007 Welcome
Welcome to Tim Bousquet's blog!
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