Posted by Liz Barratt-Brown in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Spring is here. After a long hard winter, it is time to get out into the sun again, take a deep breath, stretch our legs and revel in the awakening of the earth. This is true whether you are a...
Posted by Liz Barratt-Brown in Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
As soon as the Olympics are over and the crowds that have come from all over the world for the array of winter sports have dispersed, a new visitor will come for a different “sport” – the bear hunter seeking...
Posted by Liz Barratt-Brown in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
The President will make his first foreign visit to Canada next week. This is a tradition and historically these meetings have been largely ceremonial. Not so this time. Canada is abuzz with speculation about what directions might be set -...
Posted by Liz Barratt-Brown in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Those who visit the Canadian tar sands in Alberta often describe what they have seen as a visit to Tolkien’s Mordor – miles of open pits and lagoons of toxic waste water and a night sky lit by fires and...
Posted by Liz Barratt-Brown in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Premier Stelmach came to town this week to promote increased production of tar sands oil and was met by protestors and serious questions about the impacts of this production on Alberta and on the U.S. I wonder what he expected? ...
Posted by Liz Barratt-Brown in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Today we are sending letters to 15 U.S. and Canadian airlines asking that they participate in a new campaign we are launching called “Cool Fuels.” We’re asking participants in “Cool Fuels,” to adopt their own corporate “Low Carbon Fuel Standard” and...
