The Age of Stupid: IT’S HERE

Watch the trailer.
(click play, then go to the youtube link)

On September 21st / 22nd,  a 90 minute film about climate change set in the future, will launch internationally.
Go to the Age of Stupid website and find out more.

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Crises for marine life and elephants highlighted by Kenyan art projects

I posted some time ago about Mfalme, the Minke whale made of discarded flipflops gathered by volunteers from the beaches of Kenya.
What a beautiful boy he is and what a shame he was fated to be beached in a park in Mombasa instead of  touring museums worldwide to educate about marine pollution and resultant death [...]

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Argentinian activists take on Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold

Canada’s role in looting developing countries while contaminating ecosystems and violating rights through its unchecked mining operations is well known.
In fact, bowing to public pressure, in June 2005, the Canadian government hosted a year-long series of roundtables on corporate social responsibility and the Canadian extractive industry in developing countries. Brought  together were industry reps, human [...]

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Accomplish the Impossible or Experience the Unthinkable

It is abundantly clear that people and governments are not reacting appropriately to the catastrophic consequences of climate change.
In North America, Obama’s administration appears to be bowing to pressure and backtracking on climate action while Canada remains a moral renegade obstructing climate talks so it can continue to wallow in the filth of the Alberta [...]

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Sir, may I recommend our special for tonight: PCBs in a Brominated Flame Retardant sauce?

The Toronto Star published an article stating that the Governor General’s chowing down on a raw seal heart has given Inuit leaders hope that southern palates will take a shine to arctic meats such as seal, caribou and muskox.
With 58% employment in the region (stated in the article) who can blame them for having such [...]

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Furadan: Wildlife killing pesticide banned by the EPA being considered for ban in Canada

Last year we were all horrified to learn about lions in Kenya’s Mara Triangle with paralyzed limbs dying in agony from poisoning by a cheap American pesticide called Carbofuran (Furadan) produced by FMC Corporation.
I posted about this crisis on my old blog
A campaign was started through Wildlife Direct on the Stop Wildlife Poisoning blog, conferences [...]

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A pinch of plastic, a dash of disease, a marinade of waste runoff

My last post was about the evolution of antibiotic resistant superbugs through feeding drugs to farm animals.  I’d like to stay on the topic of health related issues around factory farming for a bit more so first check out the link below from the Union of Concerned Scientists about what farm animals are fed.
“They [...]

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Focus on Food: Why eating like an average American isn’t a good plan

This is an excellent article from the Christian Science Monitor analyzing the current food commodities crisis and offering evidence that meat guzzling isn’t going to work to feed the planet.
But reaching the average North American with this message continues to be challenging. Worrying about how one’s lifestyle might affect the poor in other countries, or [...]

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Obama on climate change and the hypocrisy of Stephen Harper

During Obama’s visit to Canada, the media cited Harper saying he was optimistic that Canada now has a partner on the North American continent to provide leadership on climate change.
That gave pause to anyone with the brainpower capacity of more than a ballbearing.
Who does he think he is kidding? Based on everything he has said [...]

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No Tankers

An alert from Dogwood Initiative
For 37 years the northern coastal waters of British Columbia have been protected from oil tanker traffic. This ban is now under threat.
Plans to build pipelines and a supertanker port in BC to service the Alberta Tar Sands are moving forward with support from the BC and Canadian Governments.
But there is [...]

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