Stephen Leahy
Biosphere Journalist | Award-win Author | 2018 SEAL award for Enviro Jurno, UN Global Media Prize for Climate Reporting stephenleahy.net
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How to Stop Freaking Out and Tackle Climate Change
Here’s a five-step plan to deal with the stress and become part of the solution.
Why Climate-Conscious Plutocrats Still Like Trump
Attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week say they're worried about global warming. But they're also looking out for their business models.
Opinion: It isn't Illicit drugs killing people, it's our lack of compassion
I used to agree with premiers Jason Kenney and Doug Ford that supervised consumption sites are a horrible idea. But a few years ago, I started noticing people were dying. The number grew to hundred…
Climate Change: Robust Evidence of Causes and Impacts
Climate Change: Robust Evidence of Causes and Impacts
Half of UK universities have committed to divest from fossil fuel
78 out of 154 universities joined campaign in blow to big oil’s ‘social licence’, campaigners say
Sarbanes, Matsui, Fortenberry Lead Bipartisan Effort to Help Homeowners Plant More Trees and Reduce Energy Costs
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Reps. Doris Matsui (D-Calif.), John Sarbanes (D-Md.) and Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) introduced The Residential Energy and Economic Savings (TREES) Act, a bill to help homeowners lower energy costs, reduce stormwater runoff...
The Revolution Comes to Davos
At the anti-capitalist capitalist event, radical sentiments erupt in unexpected places.
1982 American Petroleum Institute Report Warned Oil Workers Faced 'Significant' Risks from Radioactivity
Back in April last year, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency decided it was “not necessary” to update the rules for toxic waste from oil and gas wells. Torrents of wastewater flow daily from the nation’s 1.5 million active oil...
Wind, solar and batteries to slash emissions and costs in W.A.’s Esperance
Wind, solar and battery storage to power nearly half of W.A. town of Esperance, slashing emissions by half and electricity costs by nearly that much.
Humanity is closer than ever to annihilation, Doomsday Clock says
Failure to act on the climate crisis and renewed nuclear escalation have left the world the closest it's ever been to man-made global catastrophe, the scientists behind the Doomsday Clock said on Thursday.
Five aspects of Pentecostalism that shed light on Scott Morrison's politics
Along with a belief in miracles, other key aspects of Pentecostal doctrine – from divine providence to pietism – will likely shape the actions of our re-elected Prime Minister.
Climate change, aging population major economic factors in RBC forecast for 2020s
The proportion of working-age Canadians is expected to fall to 1.7 for every youth and senior by 2030, down from 2.3 in 2010
The invisible thread? The Coastal GasLink decision and why we must do more to recognize the application of Indigenous law
In the Supreme Court of Canada’s 1996 decision in R v Van Der Peet, Justice Beverley McLachlin[1] famously made reference to a “golden thread”:
Opinion: Who speaks for the Wet’suwet’en people? Making sense of the Coastal GasLink conflict
What the confusion surrounding band councils, hereditary chiefs, and the future of a pipeline tells us about the enormous work that still needs to be done around Nation-building and rebuilding
$22,000 Basic Income Would Eliminate Poverty In Canada: Report
But businesses and higher earners would face a hit to their incomes.
With a print-first focus, The West End Phoenix is trying to fill a local news gap in Toronto
Last month, about 60 volunteer newspaper delivery people spread out across Toronto’s West dropping off copies of The West End Phoenix. This mobilization is a monthly effort to support the nonprofit community newspaper, which was founded by musician...
How Soon Will Electric Vehicles Kill The Gasoline Car?
To many, the EV revolution seems underwhelming. That’s because they underestimate the power of exponential growth. Societies won’t register the full potential of EVs until moments before they sweep gasoline cars into the dustbin of history.
Net-Zero at Davos | by Jules Kortenhorst
The World Economic Forum used its influential annual meeting in Davos this year to issue a call to arms on climate change. Corporate and finance leaders must recognize that as members of the global elite, they have a duty to lead the charge toward a...
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Let the government know that we want a forest strategy that cares for nature.
Stephen Leahy
Ontario's .@fordnation looking to double deforestation on public lands to extract a whopping 30 million cubic metres of wood every year. Everyone else in world wants to plant trees for #climate protection. Offer your thoughts here: ontarionature.good.do/shareontariosf…
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Stephen Leahy
.@fordnation looking to double deforestation on public lands in #Ontario to extract a whopping 30 million cubic metres of wood every year. Everyone else in world wants to plant trees for #climate protection. Offer your thoughts here: ontarionature.good.do/shareontariosf… …
#ClimateEmergency
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