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Canadian Voice of Women for PeaceEstablished in 1960, Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) is a non-partisan Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) comprised of a network of diverse women with consultative status at the United Nations ECOSOC. For over 5...
History & PolicyHistory & Policy:
* Demonstrates the relevance of history to contemporary policymaking.
* Puts historians in touch with those discussing and deciding public policy today.
* Increases the influence of historical resear...
The Preservation InstituteToday, most people recognize that modernization and growth can harm the natural environment. The Preservation Institute believes that modernization also damages the social environment - that many of our social problems a...
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural HistoryThe National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is part of the Smithsonian Institution, the world's preeminent museum and research complex. The Museum is dedicated to inspiring curiosity, discovery and learning about the n...
World Health OrganizationWHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and stan...
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Academics Urge Government Climate Action2009-12-17
Science for Peace
More than 500 university faculty members from universities across Canada signed a letter to the Canadian Government calling for immediate drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The letter poi...
Bob Rae to Visit ClimateFast2012-10-02
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
In the final hours of their 12 day Fast, Climate Fasters welcome more MP's, bringing the total to 18 so far to sign the pledge board. Bob Rae and Nathan Cullen expected later today.
Climate Change: Aircraft fuel is cheaper than Coke, a direct tax on fossil fuel is what the world needs urgently.2009-12-09
What is needed is to actually make annual cuts in international trade. After all, how can the world aim to bring down greenhouse gas emissions when on the other it aims to push for increased internati...
Climate Fast News from The Hill2012-09-30
Hungry For Climate Leadership
On DAY 10 of the Fast, climate activists, maintain their presence on Parliament Hill to call on the Government to take immediate action to confront the Climate crisis and ask for public to pledge thei...
Climate Scientist Dr. James Hansen visits Toronto on Sept. 15-162010-09-08
Science for Peace
Science for Peace and The Centre for Global Change Science of U of T welcome the world#s foremost climate scientist and author of "Storms of My Grandchildren", Dr. James Hansen, for public talks and m...
Day 12 of the Fast - Still Hungry for Climate Change2012-10-02
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Fasters Enter Day 12 of Climate Fast hungry, tired, but jubilant as pledges begin to roll in. Solidarity is growing all across Canada, with vigils in Halifax, Toronto, and Salt Spring Island, BC.
Des jeunes participent à une occupation pacifique pour la justice climatique à l'intérieur du Comité sur l'Environement de la Chambre des Communes2009-12-08
People for Climate Justice
Six jeunes ont entrepris une occupation pacifique à l'intrieur du Parlement canadien, à
l'occasion d'une rencontre du Comité permanent de l'environnement et du
développement durable dans l'édifice d...
Fasters Head to Court2012-10-01
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Day 11 of Fast - Three "Hungry for Climate Leadership" Fasters in Court - Climate Change Trial Begins in Ottawa Courtroom - Harper Government Accused of Dividing Canadians With Oil-Dominated Energy a...
Government neglect and ignorance about climate change 2011-06-01
Science for Peace
Academics from universities throughout Canada are demanding immediate, informed and responsible action on climate change. Parliament convenes, following the complete omission during the current electi...
Hungry for Climate Leadership - Day 9 of Fast for Climate Justice on the Hill2012-09-29
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
It's Day 9 and the Fasters are hungry, but determined to convey the urgency of the crisis to our elected officials and asks them to end fossil fuel subsidies, put a price on carbon and develop a Natio...
An Open Letter To Congress From US Scientists On Climate Change And Recently Stolen Emails2009-12-06
As U.S. scientists with substantial expertise on climate change and its impacts on natural ecosystems, our built environment and human well-being, we want to assure policy makers and the public of the...
Sources welcomes Canadian Voice of Women for Peace2012-09-28
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Sources welcomes a new member: Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, a non-partisan Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) comprised of a network of diverse women with consultative status at the United Nati...
Toronto Joins in Solidarity with Ottawa Climate Fast2012-10-01
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Join with us on Oct. 2nd, in solidarity with the Ottawa Fasters to mark the final day of the Climatefast, Int'l Day of Non-Violence & Gandhi's birthday in a peaceful demonstration for action on Climat...
Youth Stage Peaceful Sit-in for Climate Justice inside House of Common's Environment Committee2009-12-08
People for Climate Justice
Six youth staged a peaceful sit-in inside the Canadian parliament, at a meeting of the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development, pledging to stay until the Harper government acts ...
Sources Select Resources
Academics Urge Government Climate ActionSources News Release
Article
2009
Science for Peace
More than 500 university faculty members from universities across Canada signed a letter to the Canadian Government calling for immediate drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The letter poi...
Canada Is Now To Climate What Japan Is To WhalingMonbiot, George
Article
2009
Here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, dive...
Canadian government 'knew of plans to dump iron into the Pacific'Chief executive of company responsible for controversial geoengineering test implicates several departments
Lukacs, Martin
Article
2012
The Guardian
As controversy mounts over the revelations that an American businessman conducted a massive ocean fertilisation test, dumping around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate off Canada's coast, it has emerged the ...
Climate Crisis – The Collapse In Corporate Media CoverageArticle
2011
Medialens
We find that Britain and the US – the two countries responding most aggressively to alleged 'threats' to human security in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya – are also the two countries least...
The Climate Denial Industry Is Out To Dupe The Public. And It's WorkingMonbiot, George
Article
2009
The climate denial industry consists of people who are paid to say that man-made global warming isn't happening.
A Death Sentence For AfricaThe Durban Climate Deal And Eight Corporate Media Unmentionables
Article
2011
Medialens
Carbon emissions, already at their peak, will continue to increase for at least the next eight years, pushing humanity closer to the brink of climate collapse. Rather than address the madness of a glo...
A Direct Tax On Fossil Fuel Is What The World Needs UrgentlySharma, Devinder
Article
2009
Countercurrents
A direct tax on fossil fuels is the only realistic way to achieve the necessary cuts.
Gates of Delusion: Media Distortions and REAL Climate ScandalsArticle
2010
Medialens
Climate-related storms in a teacup have been appearing in the corporate media almost on a daily basis. This nonsense is distracting attention from a mountain of evidence that human-induced climate cha...
How green are your ethics?Malik, Kenan
Article
2007
The assumption that underlies much of the discussion on carbon neutrality is that any activity that emits CO2 - and that means virtually every human activity - is something to apologise for. All human...
The Ice Melts Into WaterArctic Ice Melt, Psychopathic Capitalism And The Corporate Media
Cromwell, David; Edwards, David
Article
2012
Media Lens
Last month, climate scientists announced that Arctic sea ice had shrunk to its smallest surface area since satellite observations began in 1979. An ice-free summer in the Arctic, once projected to be ...
Inuit Are Living on the Front Lines of Climate ChangeHanley, Charles J.
Article
2009
Reznet
Climate change is being felt in northwest Canada, and in a wide circle at the top of the world, stretching from Alaska through the Siberian tundra, into northern Scandinavia and Greenland, and on to C...
Just the Beginning of Canada’s Filthy Tar SandsA Qualitative Jump Down a Black Hole
Stainsby, Macdonald
Article
2013
CounterPunch
The technology used in Canada's tar sands will be used to open up other potential oil deposits that could more than double all know oil reserves. The disaster threatens to keep expanding.
The Manufactured Doubt Industry And The Hacked Email ControversyMasters, Jeff
Article
2009
Weather Underground
The fossil fuel industry has been working for years to create a smokescreen of doubt to obscure the facts of global warming.
Natural environmentSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
An Open Letter To Congress From US Scientists On Climate Change And Recently Stolen EmailsSources News Release
Article
2009
As U.S. scientists with substantial expertise on climate change and its impacts on natural ecosystems, our built environment and human well-being, we want to assure policy makers and the public of the...
Pure Propaganda - The Great Global Warming SwindleArticle
2007
Medialens
The Scientists Are The Bad Guys.
Rampaging Climate Deniers' Losing BattleSalzman, Lorna
Article
2009
Countercurrents
Because of the flimsy comprehension of science and evolution of most writers in the mass media, those who venture to write about evolution feel constrained to present "alternative" views. But "alterna...
Seven Answers To Climate Contrarian NonsenseRennie, John
Article
2009
Scientific American
Within the community of scientists and others concerned about anthropogenic climate change, those deny climate change are commonly referred to as contrarians, naysayers and denialists. Not everyone wh...
This Is About UsMonbiot, George
Article
2009
Guardian
The talks at Copenhagen are not just about climate change. They represent a battle to redefine humanity.
What's at stake in CopenhagenThe crucial debates at Copenhagen
Gilbertson, Tamra; Reyes, Oscar
Article
2009
Red Pepper
Tere is no chance of achieving binding greenhouse gas reductions within the current framework for an agreement. Instead the problem is being redefined to fit the business-as-usual assumptions of neoli...
Why We Left Our Farms to Come to CopenhagenSpeech of Henry Saragih, general coordinator of Via Campesina at the opening session of Klimaforum
Saragih, Henry
Article
2009
La Via Campesina
Climate change is already seriously impacting us. It brings floods, droughts and the outbreak of pests that are all causing harvest failures. I must point out that these harvest failures are something...
Wonderful Wonderful Carbon Haven!Bryan, Kim
Article
2009
Red Pepper
With the activists gearing up outside and developing countries in no mood for compromise # climate justice is definitely on the agenda this time round.
Sources Bookshelf
Doubt is their ProductHow Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health
Michaels, David (ed.)
Book
2008
Reveals how the tobacco industry's duplicitious tactics spawned a multimillion-dollar industry that is dismantling public health safeguards. Offers concrete, workable suggestions for how it can be res...
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