Biofools? Is it smart to put so much faith in biofuels?
A pamphlet highlighting 5 key issues of concern. Putting so much faith in the quick fix of biofuels may ignite more problems than solutions. This publication also suggests a message to take to your MP and your provincial representative.
Our Green Future: Confronting Climate Change - A just transition to green jobs
Designing and implementing a shift in the labour market from polluting and carbon intensive jobs, to "green jobs" will require a Just Transition Strategy. This pamphlet explores some key considerations for all levels of government.
Top 5 Ways to Get Government to Confront the Climate Crisis
This leaflet describes the top five actions governments should take to meet and beat greenhouse gas emission reductions required to keep our climate in check. It encourages readers to take action by writing their municipal, provincial and federal government representatives with these top five priorities.
Climate Change IQ: A Series of Backgrounders
A Just Transition
This brief sets out the need for a just transition in our quest to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It outlines the need for strategies that support communities and workers, the concept of green jobs and how this can bring us to a low carbon economy.
Greener Transportation: Biofuels: The good and the bad
This brief describes the pros and cons of fossil fuel alternatives. It cautions of quick fixes and easy solutions that keep the market place strong but don't get to the root of the greenhouse gas problem.
Greener Transportation: Personal Transportation
This brief gives an overview of the car culture and the quest for a better personal vehicle. It describes the emergence of flex fuel vehicles, hybrids and electric cars while touching on alternatives like biking and walking as viable solutions.
The Carbon Market: Carbon Offsets
This brief outlines the concept of carbon offsets and the criteria required to make a good offset. It cautions against offsets as a solution to greenhouse gas reductions.
Keeping Our Cool: A Climate Change Primer
Climate change caused by accelerated global warming is the greatest challenge civilization has ever faced. How can each of us be part of the solution? How can Canada act in concert with other nations and do our part in combating climate chaos? Keeping Our Cool: A Climate Change Primer helps us understand the basic science and gives us the knowledge we need to want to make that choice.
From the Laboratory to your Dinner Table:
Genetically Engineered Foods: Food for Thought
This paper is intended to provide an overview of the issue of genetically engineered foods. Genetically engineered foods are those that come from seeds that have had their genetic makeup altered in some way by a scientist. Food quality is an important aspect of the working lives of many public sector workers and the private lives of all of us concerned with what we are serving at our dinner table.
Regulatory Framework on the Environment
This paper explores the attack on the regulatory framework for environmental protection. As a starting point, the paper explores the manner by which the Federal Government has implemented a strategy to: use global competitiveness as an excuse; weaken federal environmental legislation and enforcement capacity; devolve responsibility to the provinces; and appeal to corporations to self-regulate.
You, Me and the Environment
Our environment surrounds us. It includes the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, the soil where our children play. It is the most public of public health issues. This pamphlet provides a description of the key issues jeopardizing our environment such as air pollution and the greenhouse effect. It then explores the avenues to save our environment including the use of renewable energy. Our environment is an issue that affects us all and we must all work together to ensure that future generations can enjoy what past generations have taken for granted - a healthy environment.
