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The Best Way To Create Jobs: Reduce Fossil Fuel Use

Clean Energy Rolly Montpellier @Below2C_ - August 21, 2018

As the world slowly transitions to a clean energy future, one of the major concerns we keep hearing about is the loss of jobs in the fossil fuel sector. President Trump was elected on the promise of restoring fossil...

Reasons To Choose Climate Hope

Clean Energy Climate Reality | Primary Source | Educational - August 7, 2018

The 24 Reasons To Choose HOPE guide (from the Climate Reality Project) forms the backdrop for and is the primary resource for this article.The news about climate change is often quite grim but underneath this cloud of uncertainty and unease...

Where We Are In The Clean Energy Revolution

Clean Energy Jeremy Leggett @JeremyLeggett - July 10, 2018

Dr Jeremy Leggett is founding director of Solarcentury, founder and chair of SolarAid, and a researcher and writer on climate, clean energy, technology and the future of civilization. Recently at FundForum International 2018 he was asked to do an...

What You Need To Know About Sea-Level Rise

Climate Reality | Primary Source | Educational

As our world becomes warmer and warmer, our seas will continue to rise. That’s because the number one cause of sea-level rise is climate change. What is Sea-Level Rise? We can talk about sea-level rise in two different ways: relative sea-level rise and absolute sea-level rise. The Environmental Protection Agency (before it was headed up by climate deniers and industry... Read more

Children Face Unique Health Risks Due To Climate Change

Climate Reality | Primary Source | Educational

The medical profession has sounded the alarm on the potential health risks of climate change. And one demographic in particularly is vulnerable to the threats arising from a warming planet. Climate change disproportionately affects children. A recent paper in the Pediatrics journal estimates that children will bear 88% of the burden of climate-related disease. Read more

If You Eat Well, You're Acting on Climate

Ellen Moyer

Many environmentally and socially conscious people feel overwhelmed right now. How can they counteract a host of problems, including climate disruption, species extinction, water depletion, soil loss, deforestation, toxic chemicals, chronic disease, stress, food insecurity, corruption, and violence? They may not know where to begin. Here’s good news: Food offers us a powerful entry point.... Read more

From The Energy Mix

Ottawa Set to Lose Money on Trans Mountain Purchase as Morneau Accused of Obscuring Costs

Canada’s purchase of the Trans Mountain pipeline from Houston-based Kinder Morgan Ltd. may be costing taxpayers more in interest charges than the high-touted revenue it receives from existing pipeline operations, according to an exposé last week by National Observer. […]
Canadian Governments Introduce Four New Fossil Subsidies on Eve of UN Climate Conference

Just a week before delegates gathered in Katowice, Poland for this year’s United Nations climate change conference, Canadian governments introduced four generous new subsidies for the country’s oil and gas industry, writes Patrick DeRochie, program manager, climate and energy at Toronto-based Environmental Defence. […]