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Environment

Ecology? Look it up! You’re still involved

Originally published on Greenpeace International

This year has been the 50th Anniversary of Greenpeace; 2022 will be the 50th anniversary of the Limits to Growth study. During this era, a half-century ago, citizens around the world began seeing signs of a pending ecological crisis, and began to talk about it. 

The image above could be considered the first Greenpeace public media statement, one of twelve billboards erected in Vancouver, in 1969, by Greenpeace co-founders Dorothy and Ben Metcalfe.

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Cost of Climate Change

A Climate Scientist talks about the good news that came out of COP 26

Dr Simon Donner is an interdisciplinary climate scientist at the University of British Columbia. He studies some of the areas where the rise in global temperatures is most evident: ocean warming, sea-level rise; climate change adaptation in the developing world and coral reefs. Given that work, Donner admits he is “probably a weird person to sound optimistic,” but he is encouraged about the good news from COP 26. 

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Cost of Climate Change

Canadian media needs to pay more attention to the climate crisis, Sean Holman says

National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Climate change is the largest and most impactful story on the globe, yet Canadian media in particular has done an inadequate job in covering the issue, one expert says.

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Clothing, Women

AshFireWear: for the female fire fighter

By Breanne Massey, The Columbia Valley Pioneer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

After serving the nation as a structural firefighter for several years, Ashley O’Neil began to notice a gap in the industry where she worked that affected female fighters adversely.

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Cost of Climate Change, Fire

Wildfires lay a blanket of smoke across southern British Columbia

National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

The acrid blanket of smoke from wildfires raging in the U.S that is cloaking southwest British Columbia and Vancouver Island is expected to continue for the next couple of days.

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