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Climate Changes Everything. And Climate Journalism Creates Change.
A climate journalism conference in New York coincides with a monumental climate journalism win back home in Ontario. It’s always an honour to do this…
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Mitchell Beer
Lessons from Tupperware Bring Climate Messaging to the Mainstream
Grassroot marketer Brownie Wise would be called a community manager today. In the 1950s, she sold one of history’s most popular petroleum products by…
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Mitchell Beer
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Everyone, Everywhere, All At Once
It isn’t too late to solve climate change. But the first-ever Global Stocktake under the Paris climate agreement shows that we need to pick up the pace…
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Mitchell Beer
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Don't Let Climate Grief Defeat Climate Solutions
It'll take lots of wins, big and small, to build a decarbonized world brick by brick. We can’t let climate despair slow us down or paint us into a…
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Mitchell Beer
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August 2023
Prigozhin Mutiny Against Moscow Traced Back to Oil and Gas Profits
Wagner Group mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin had a list of grievances against Russia’s military leadership. But it may have begun with a battle for a…
Would You Buy a Used Energy Strategy from This Guy?
Suncor CEO Rich Kruger wants to double down on oil sands production while Canada burns and the world bakes. Investors are thrilled. What planet do they…
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Mitchell Beer
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Playing Poker with Power Plants
This week's Clean Electricity Regulations show Canada’s long game on slashing carbon emissions. The fossil fuel lobby is not winning.
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Mitchell Beer
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Greenwashed Aviation Fuels Vie to Fly the Fitful Skies
Air Canada and its new fuel supply partner are promising too much, too fast, with technologies that can’t yet deliver. It's just another day at the…
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Mitchell Beer
July 2023
#TBT - The Biggest Climate Scam: Promising a Breakthrough with 'Abated' Breath
The Weekender is on holiday. This Encore Edition, originally published May 20, is still as relevant as the past week's headlines on Canada's upcoming…
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Mitchell Beer
Fossil Fuel Subsidies: Time to Stop ‘Paying Oil Companies to Cook Us’
Canada’s upcoming restrictions on fossil fuel subsidies can deliver some simple progress on an issue that never should have been this complicated.
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Mitchell Beer
In the Shift Off Fossil Fuels, Money Talks
Financial self-interest is the common denominator behind every part of the climate emergency, and the limiting factor impeding faster, deeper carbon…
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Mitchell Beer
The Chilling Question About This Week’s Record Heat Wave
We may soon remember this week’s record-shattering heat as an historic low temperature mark. But that hasn't slowed down the oil and gas spin machine.
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Mitchell Beer
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