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Coffee Price Shock Brings Climate Change to Everyone’s Front Door
With the world’s two biggest coffee producers, Brazil and Vietnam, facing simultaneous droughts, future crops are in jeopardy and prices are on the…
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Mitchell Beer
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B.C.'s Least-Known Coal Company Buyout is Bad News for Canada
The deal for a huge coal company takeover is done. And it’s not good for anyone except Glencore and Teck shareholders.
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Joan Baxter
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60-Year Legacy of Industrial Pollution Holds Warning for Oil and Gas Communities
The Grassy Narrows First Nation in northwestern Ontario has struggled with industrial mercury pollution since the 1970s. Is this what Alberta oil and…
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Mitchell Beer
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‘Hopeless, Broken’ Climate Scientists Deliver a Call to Action for Everyone
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Playing Poker with Power Plants
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Canadians Aren’t Listening to Climate Messaging? Maybe It’s Time to Listen Back.
 • Mitchell Beer
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With Polarization Running Wild, Let’s Restart the Climate Conversation from the Ground Up
 • Mitchell Beer
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Fossil Phaseout Language Has Oil Lobby in Panic Mode
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See the Win, Take the Win
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End of the Partnership: What Do You Do When There’s Nothing More to Do?
There won’t likely be a federal election tomorrow. But it’ll take new strategies to keep climate on the agenda with the government on life support and…
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Mitchell Beer
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How #Elxn2025 Could Be the Climate Breakthrough of the Decade
The lead-up to Canada’s next federal election has not been looking hopeful for climate policy. But we’re seeing some strong hints at how to turn that…
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Mitchell Beer
Rural Women Learn Solar Skills, Build Community with ‘Bottom Up Development’
Barefoot College in India works with the practical wisdom and survival skills of the rural poor. Literacy skills not required.
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Rosemary Cairns
Scary Times Produce Scary Decisions
None of us make our best decisions when we’re in a state of panic. And the worst way to respond to climate change is to assume there’s nothing we can do…
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Mitchell Beer
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Harris, Walz Show How to Win with Joy and Purpose
They’re fighting to avert a dreadful future. They’re doing it with joy. Whichever part of the climate and energy story you work on, this is how we show…
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Mitchell Beer
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Nuclear Adopts ‘Emergency Framing’ Around Climate, But Still Can’t Deliver: M.V. Ramana
20 years ago, you would have been laughed out of the room for claiming that nuclear energy is clean technology. The urgency of the climate crisis has…
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Susan O'Donnell
The Worst Case for Canadian Oil and Gas is a Taxpayer’s Nightmare
In the end, it may be voters lying awake, staring at the ceiling, wondering how the oil industry’s bills will be paid.
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Markham Hislop
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