Economics

Alabama civil rights movement: Selma to Montgomery march

What "Selma" Can Teach the Canadian Climate Movement

Jan 29 2015 | IN Politicians | BY Cameron Fenton

The civil rights movie is steeped in lessons in organizing and movement strategy – here’s how one group is applying those lessons to the Energy East pipeline.

OPINION: Alternative Facts in an Age of Climate Change

Dec 12 2018 | IN Politicians | BY Hai Lin Wang

How did the culture surrounding Donald Trump fuel climate denial?

OPINION: A Business Case for Keeping Ontario’s Environmental Commissioner

Dec 04 2018 | IN Regulation | BY Ellen Schwartzel

Who will suffer most when Ontario's Environmental Commissioner is silenced? It's not who you might think.

Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose and Capitalism

Nov 22 2018 | IN Economics | REVIEWED BY Carolyn Burns

"We can no longer pretend that we’re morally detached from the stocks and bonds we invest in," writes investor Joel Solomon. "It is our responsibility to know, and to act accordingly.”

Cracked earth/Photo by Victor Benard on Unsplash

Can your portfolio weather climate risk?

Oct 29 2018 | IN Economics | BY Lauryn Drainie

What comes to mind when you think about the impacts of climate change? Forest fires? Floods? How about your finances?

Is that shark on my fork?

Oct 17 2018 | IN Water | BY Julie Andersen

The missing link

Oct 14 2018 | IN Wildlife | BY Julie Andersen

Our oceans' super-predators are disappearing - here's why

Coffee farmers struggle to adapt to Colombia’s changing climate

Aug 24 2018 | IN Food | BY Jessica Eise, Natalie White

Deep in the Andes Mountains, where growing coffee is a multi-billion business, the creeping impacts of global warming are threatening a way of life.

Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River/SAE 2015.

Belo Monte: there is nothing green or sustainable about these mega-dams

Aug 15 2018 | IN Water | BY Ed Atkins

Hydroelectricity may appear clean. But when it comes to megadams, the veneer of sustainability can wear thin.

Wind farm in southwestern Ontario/Michael Swan. 2015. CC BY-ND 2.0

Doug Ford’s energy shake-up could cost Ontario

Jul 29 2018 | IN Renewables | BY Mark Winfield

Setting aside lawsuits from shuttering wind projects, Ontario is turning its back on unprecedented opportunities in the renewable energy and clean tech sectors.

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