A Critical Look at the WRI’s Recent GHG Source Assessment
Recently, the World Resources Institute (WRI) released a report which they say quantifies the sources of greenhouse gases in the...
A Tale of Two Santa Martas
It’s a tale of two documents, emerging from the parallel conferences held in the same city. One closely reflects the...
United Nations Environment Program: The World is In Grave Danger – But We Can Save It … and Thrive!
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has released their latest Global Environmental Assessment, titled A Future We Choose (1). It...
2025 State of the Climate Report: A dire reality that we CAN turn around!
The latest State of the Climate Report issues a dire warning. Fortunately, we can still turn things around – IF we make the right choices.
No, Bill C-293 on pandemic prevention is not the “Vegan Act”
Bill C-293 is a rational response to a serious threat. It aims to reduce the likelihood of pandemics arising within our borders and to bolster our responses to any pandemics that may nevertheless arise here or arrive on our shores.
Estimating the True Costs of Our Foods
It may surprise you, but the prices we pay at checkout for our foods are often quite different from the...
CBC’s coverage of plant-based issues is all too often outrageously flawed
Our national broadcaster is doing serious public harm by misinforming us about the importance of and the science behind moving to plant-based diets
Some sober thoughts for Thanksgiving Day
This Thanksgiving Day, perhaps we should consider just what it is that we are thankful for and how we can make sure that those generations who follow us will be thankful, too. Because, the fact is, if we keep on living the way we are, it won’t be long before there will be very little to be thankful about. Perhaps we can begin by listening to the experts.
The biggest threat to biodiversity is on our plates
This article also appeared in print in the National Post.
Research shows that our impact on the planetary biosphere is enormously damaging. And it is mostly due to what we put on our plates. The good news is we have the power to change that.
It’s going to be a very good year.
It’s going to be a very good year, we think, we’re glad to have you running along with us. In upcoming issues of this newsletter, we’ll keep you up to date on all of our good work. We hope that you’ll want to be involved also. One easy way is to simply make a donation.
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"De Waal argued that brain size is an insufficient proxy for intelligence, and that “the sentience and moral status of animals is a given,” a
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Like animal agriculture, widespread use of biofuels is wreaking environmental destruction at enormous scales and stealing food from the poor.
The biofuel comeback: more fuel, less food, more land grabs
Biofuels are back, and so are their impacts: land grabbing, rights violations and climate breakdown. As Asian governments ramp up production, Trump uses tariff threats to push them to import US biofuels. Who profits, and who pays the price?
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"When Transport for London (TFL) in the UK removed junk food advertising from its network, weekly household purchases were estimated to fall by nearly seven