In North America every schoolday, fleets of cheesewagons fire up their dirty old engines to bus kids to school, even in cities where there is transit or schools within walking distance. Moms by the millions crank up the minivan or the SUV to drive their kids four blocks to school.

Meanwhile, we have a carbon dioxide crisis, a fuel supply crisis, a road ...

With the world arguably on the precipice of rapid environmental decline, political leaders cling to the economic status quo in willful acts of blind denial. Curbing green house gases will destroy our economies they argue. But they are wrong.

Yesterday’s preamble to the ...

When Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Patt Morrison goes green, she goes green – and gets angry. Her column yesterday titled “Green Guilt Trip” slams the hypocrisy of the auto industry. An auto company representative said something so patently outrageous that Morrison could not let it go unchallenged.

California recently announced a plan to reduce tailpipe emissions. The auto industry through its spokesperson says that the act will have no positive effect on global warming. Morrison ...

Yesterday we posted our views on the fragile, weak-kneed agreement the G8 leaders arrived at on climate change. You know what we think, but what are Canada’s major newspapers saying?

Are you expecting a consistent, country-wide condemnation of this flaccid agreement? Well, you ...

Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, and the Calgary Herald

The Ecuadorian Amazon is arguably home to some of the world’s most biologically diverse forests. According to researchers, there are as many species of trees in one square hectare there as are found over all of Canada and the U.S. But, like many unique environments around the world, those forests are threatened by what is under the green canopy. Oil. ...

One of the biggest problems with offsetting is ensuring ‘additionality’ – proving that the offsets that you are buying in order to counterbalance your carbon emissions would not have happened without yours and other similar contributions. Often the projects sound intrinsically worthwhile – protecting threatened original forest, supporting conversion to renewable energy, installing low energy light bulbs, etc. – and ...