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...
