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Tuesday May 21, 2013 This past Saturday, May 18, marked three years since I stood with 29 other environmental groups and logging companies and signed the world’s largest conservation agreement, the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA).... read more »
Todd Paglia
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Monday May 20, 2013 Maybe you’ve heard by now that Facebook has been looking kind of pro-tar sands lately. I don’t want Big Oil and its nasty climate impacts running my social media feeds—do you?... read more »
Claire Rosenfeld
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Monday May 20, 2013 I'm a PhD Student in linguistics and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, in The Netherlands. I investigate how we understand what someone actually means based on what one literally says. When I’m not studying, I like the wilderness, running and cycling.... read more »
Matthijs Westera
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Wednesday May 15, 2013 What makes me sad about last night’s election in British Columbia (BC) is that I know a lot of folks that really care about the people and the planet had their hearts broken. The candidates and their supporters that I saw at the left-leaning BC New Democratic Party's (BC NDP) election night party were a group of people who I know wanted to make BC a better place—it was hard to watch them leave the convention centre with sad faces. ... read more »
Ben West
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Tuesday May 14, 2013 Part of ForestEthics’ theory of change is based on an important rule of business: The customer is always right. As long as the customer is doing the right thing, that is.... read more »
Aaron Sanger
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Monday May 13, 2013 Last week Van Jones, the founder of a national US green jobs advocacy group called Green for All, was arrested at a rally organized to protest against a major American coal company. ... read more »
Ben West
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Friday May 10, 2013 A cowboy at the airport had welcomed us when we arrived from British Columbia in Calgary, Alberta. In retrospect, this was a sign. I was in Calgary to join a delegation representing First Nations (Canada’s indigenous people), landowners, commercial fishermen, youth, and labourers. Looking back on the trip, it was as if we had actually travelled back in time to the Wild West.... read more »
Karen Tam Wu
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Thursday May 9, 2013 The following is a message from an inspirational young activist. If you live in British Columbia’s Vancouver/Surrey area, please considering attending his Rally to Stop the Enbridge Pipeline (& Kinder Morgan Expansion) this Saturday, May 11 @11am, Holland Park in Surrey. Can't make it to the event?... read more »
Darius
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Wednesday May 8, 2013 A few weeks ago, I was driving along Highway 16 in northern British Columbia (BC), between Smithers and Hazelton, on my way to a meeting. This stretch of highway is relatively uneventful, very few houses or anything other than scrubby trees and the occasional glimpse of rugged snow-capped mountains.... read more »
Karen Tam Wu
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Friday May 3, 2013 Did Facebook just become pro-tar sands?... read more »
Ben West

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