It’s Getting Hot In Here

British Columbia currently has no coal plants! woohoo. Unfortunately our consumption of electricity is rising and all our major rivers have been already damned. For the past few years we’ve been importing electricity from Alberta – the electricity was derived from burning coal.

In order to be more energy self-reliant Premier Gordon Campbell is planning to build the provinces first coal plant in Princeton, a small town in the Okanagan region of British Columbia. Chief Joe Dennis of the Lower Similkameen Indian Band and other citizens groups oppose the Coal plant because of the health effects associated with coal plants. Hear their story!

I just left a message on Gordon Campbells phone - (250) 387-1715. You can give him a call yourself, even if you’re not from B.C. Or drop him an email (premier@gov.bc.ca) telling him to stop picking on small towns and indigenous peoples! This is the perfect opportinity to put more clean energy on the grid.

Il fait beau dans l’métro or “the weater is nice in the tube/metro/subway” was produced by BCP, Québec’s first French advertising agency, to encourage public transit. I can’t wait for Vancouver to get a metro so I can dance all over it with my friends in 70’s clothing and sing this song.

This is supposed to be a season of giving. But the kind of gifts the Top Ten Greenhouse Gas Emitters in Canada are giving us all are not only unwelcome - they’re changing the climate and killing the planet. Tell them where to shove their gas (up their ***)!

24,887,358 tonnes of greenhouse gases.
Happy Holidays from Ontario Power Generation!

22,672,480 tonnes of greenhouse gases.
Happy Holidays from Transalta Utilities Corporation!

13,669,500 tonnes of greenhouse gases.
Happy Holidays from Saskatchewan Power Corporation!

Continue reading ‘Tell Canada’s Top Ten Emitters Where to Shove their Gas.’

Here is a tour of the house inhabited by Canada’s cutest couple (other than Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein of course).

… and the violent response that this innocent action recieved…

Side Note The climate activist in question has a law degree from one of the most prestigeous universities in Canada (and never had a professor with leather patches on his/her suit jacket).

Here is another youtube about how GM killed the electric street car.

English follows!

NUFF Global est une entreprise internationale pour des idées de films et des films faits par des jeunes du monde entier sur les changements de climat. Les idées et films des jeunes participants seront selectionnés par un jury international de film et des experts du climat. Les 10 meilleures idées receveront une récompense d’environ 5.000$ chacun et les films tournés seront retransmis au Nordic Youth Film Festival (NUFF) à Troms, Norvège, Juin 2007.
Continue reading ‘$5,000 for a Climate related film!’

For all you hard-core climate nerds out there, here is a blow-by-blow, detailed update on what is happening in Nairobi at the COP12!

Hear 2 student leaders share their thoughts on getting their campus Carbon Neutral!

And here is the action they planned!

GO Student Environment Centre!!!

This 11 min clip is classic Canadianna! David Suzuki interviews Preston Manning, former leader of the Reform Party of Canada.

Suzuki manages to create an open, tolerant, respectful, and safe space that is inclusive of Preston Mannings conservative, market based paradigm. I think that this safe space is the key to constructive dialogues that will eventually solve our sustainability problems.

(The clip starts to get more interesting around 7min.)