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Earth Hour Needs to Get BIGGER
At 8:30 pm on Saturday, March 31st (when Earth Hour officially began), I was in Whole Foods in Toronto. Whole Foods, the natural, organic, and overall environmentally-conscious grocery store, is of all places where you expect to find people who know what Earth Hour is. But when the building dimmed their lights, my girlfriend and [...]
Canadians Disappointed with Conservative’s Lack of leadership at the Toronto G20 Summit
According to recent poll results, 78 percent ofCanadians wanted Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government to use theG8 and G20 summits ”to signal that Canada wants to be a leader in theglobal fight against climate change.” Two thirds of Canadianswanted the Harper government to show leadership at the G8 and G20summits. The same number wanted to [...]
G20 Summit in Toronto Ends with Mixed Results
The G20 summit in Toronto ended with a general agreement on bankcapitalization and recycled statements about the green economy andputting an end to fossil fuel subsidies. Leaders of the world’slargest economies did manage to adopt new rules that will force banks to hold significantly more capital. However, countries unable to meet theoriginal deadline of late [...]