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Climate Action NOW! has prepared a list of energy efficiency tips which can be sorted by potential carbon dioxide emission savings or by cost range. If you have other tips please send us a message.
Did you know ...
that you can save water and reduce your carbon footprint by taking short navy showers?
Keystone XL
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International News
- Why David Cameron should attend the Rio+20 Earth summit
- Cooling the urban heat island with more reflective roofs
- Bill Gates Warns Climate Change Threatens Food Security, Finds It ‘Ironic’ People Oppose His ‘Solution’: Genetic Modification
- Letters: Transparency needed on donors to climate sceptic lobby
- Podcast: We Must Address the Climate-Security Nexus
- Stone the crows! Could corvids be Australia's smartest export?
- NASA Unveils the “Most Amazing High Definition Image of Earth” from Climate Satellite
- Study: 79% of Broadcast Sources on Keystone XL Were Supporters of the Pipeline
- The world's biggest and most vulnerable trees – in pictures
- Electricity Priced by the Hour Boosts Distributed Solar Value by a Third or More
Canadian News
- UPDATE: Kent says no to caribou protection, again
- Time for Minister Kent to get serious on caribou
- No Time Left to Adapt to Melting Glaciers — Peak Water Has Already Come and Gone
- Oceans Becoming Hot, Sour and Breathless
- “Fracking” for Shale Gas: The Bridge to Global Warming Disaster
- Doc Greedy Lying Bastards Exposes Oil Industry
- Toxic Pollution Shortens Lives By More Than a Decade
- U.S. decision on Keystone XL pipeline took climate consequences into account (blog)
- Compilation: Obscene Fossil Fuel Industry Profits, Perverse Government Subsidies a Betrayal of Life
- Keystone rejection: A lesson from our neighbours to the south
Science behind climate change
- Will The Global Warming Policy Foundation’s Seed Funder Be Revealed?
- The Uneasy Relationship Between Explaining Science to Conservatives...and Explaining Conservatives Scientifically
- Media Matters Analysis Shows Keystone XL Proponents Dominated Media
- ALEC Model Bill Behind Push To Require Climate Denial Instruction In Schools
- NASA scientists expect more rapid global warming in the very near future (part 1)
- Built to Fail: National Energy Board Muzzles Environmental Scientists In Enbridge Northern Gateway Hearing
- Patrick Michaels Continues to Distort Hansen 1988, Part 2
- Study Tracks Australian Climate Denial Echo Chamber Back to Think Tank
- New research from last week 3/2012
- Another Industry Talking Point Laid To Rest: Oil Production Soars But Gas Prices Remain High
Recent blog posts
- What are our children being taught about climate change?
- What Happened?
- Hume: Ottawa drops the ball and Toronto lets it get away
- Canada's Fossil of the Day standings at COP 17
- Filthy Keystone XL Pipeline review writes Bill McKibben
- Poor management puts federal climate plans at risk ...
- Another arrest - the Ottawa tar sands action
- Why I have not completed the short-form census
- Ottawa next
- My reasons for participating in the Washington sit-in
Travel Emissions
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Want to calculate the CO2 emissions of alternative modes of transportation? Here is an easy to use one at transportdirect.info Note: This calculator is for the UK where cars do not guzzle gas as much as in North America. So emissions for NA cars would be correspondingly greater. In addition, diesel trains generate more emissions than electric (depending upon the source of electricity.) |
Ecocide?
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Aarhus Convention grants the public rights regarding access to information, public participation and access to justice, in governmental decision-making processes on matters concerning the local, national and transboundary environment. It focuses on interactions between the public and public authorities.
In 2003 in Kiev, Ukraine the Meeting of the Parties adopted the Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers, which was subsequently opened for signature. Thirty-six States and the European Community signed the Protocol in Kiev.
In April 2010 , a new treaty body on pollution registers was established. Greenhouse gases are defined as a pollutant in this treaty.
Unfortunately the Aarhus Convention does not apply to Canada, but it is a potential model for what could be done here.
A couple of sites which discuss ecocide and how to run a campaign: