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No Tankers No Pipeline Tour - Council of Canadians

TOUR: No Pipelines. No Tankers.

To raise awareness and build community solidarity and support in the fights to stop pipeline expansions in BC, the Council of Canadians is organizing a six-city tour this month to say: “No Pipelines, No Tankers.” The tour will help educate about the devastating environmental impacts of these massive pipeline projects, which will move tar sands crude to BC’s coastline where it will be loaded into supertankers and shipped through precarious waters to new…

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Added by Beth Carruthers on October 23, 2012 at 3:28pm — No Comments

A turning-point we miss at our peril

We have the choice of burning all the oil left and hacking down all the remaining rainforests - or saving humanity

 

by Johann Hari

Sometimes, there are hinge-points in human history – moments when we have to choose between an exuberant descent into lunacy, and a still, sober voice offering us a sane way out. Usually, we can only see them when we look back from a distance. In 1793, the great democrat Thomas Paine said the French…

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Added by Randy Chatterjee on May 25, 2011 at 1:30am — No Comments

TransLink’s freeway push must be stopped

November 16, 2010



By Eric Doherty and Andrew Murray



TransLink has been crying poverty as of late, claiming that it does not have the money to keep a third SeaBus in operation. Never mind completing the long-promised Evergreen Line or providing enough buses to implement the planned U-Pass expansion. However, TransLink has lots of cash when it comes to freeway expansion.



TransLink is running full speed ahead with what's being… Continue

Added by Eric Doherty on November 17, 2010 at 10:00am — 2 Comments

Peak oil is spurring locals' self-sufficiency, by Carlito Pablo of the Georgia Straight

Publish Date: November 10, 2010 in The Georgia Straight


What if you woke up one day and found that the world as you knew it had ceased to exist?


It’s a thought that has probably crossed the minds of many and perhaps been quickly dismissed by most as silly. For Brennan Wauters, this prospect is real. That’s why he’s preparing for what he…
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Added by Randy Chatterjee on November 11, 2010 at 8:00am — 3 Comments

Carolyn Baker: Collapse, Transition, the Great Turning, why words matter

Syndicated worldwide, this following article on the error of…

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Added by Randy Chatterjee on May 21, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

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