Op/Ed: Why your stuff turns to junk so fast (and cooks the planet)
Note: This article was originally posted on the Worldwatch Institute blog. Worldwatch is an independent research organization based in Washington, D.C. that works on energy, resource, and environmental issues. Much of the energy of the environmental movement and of policymaking is focused on reducing greenhouse gas...
COLUMN: From the Hill -- Forestry and Trade Wars
The forest industry has been a critically important sector in the BC economy for over a century, but it has been hit hard. A 30-year trade war with the United States cost our industry billions of dollars. The softwood lumber agreement did bring back certainty to lumber export access and costs, but the Canadian industry paid...
Rossland Food Bank says "Thank you!"
The Rossland Food Bank is very grateful to the many people who put time, energy, and expertise into helping them move to their new location on the south end of the Arena building. The new facility provides an administrative space, a storage room with a refrigerator for perishables and freezers for meat and bread, and a...
Library's value to Rossland; new section of a trail coming up; the problem of invasive weeds; GHG emssions reduction plan
Regular Rossland City Council Meeting, October 24, 2016 All Council members were present, as well as Chief Administrative Officer Bryan Teasdale, Chief Financial Officer Elma Hamming, City Planner Stacey Lightbourne, manager of Public Works Darrin Albo, and Executive Assistant Alison Worsfold. Public Input: A resident asked...
COLUMN: 'Collective cowardice' on climate change
Scientists worldwide accept that Earth is warming at an unusually rapid rate, that humans are primarily responsible, mainly by burning fossil fuels, and that the consequences for humanity will be disastrous if we don’t take immediate, widespread action. The U.S. Defense Department calls climate change a security risk “because...
Want to influence our federal government? Here's one way to make an attempt.
The Candian Environmental Protection Act is under review by a committee of the House of Commons. Citizens are invited to comment -- in the form of written "briefs." There are guidelines for these briefs, accessible via a link in the material pasted in below. Are you worried about foxes guarding hen-houses in terms of our...
Seven Summits Centre for Learning students improving ecosystem health near Waneta
Students from Seven Summits Centre for Learning are doing their part to increase ecosystem health in the Kootenays. According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, invasive species are the second greatest threat to biodiversity, after habitat loss. Invasive species are plants, animals, and pathogens that...
RCMP warn about more phone scams
Don’t be fooled. Don’t give out any information on the phone to anyone who calls up and claims to represent your credit card company. Anyone from your credit card compoany does NOT need you to give them any information about you or your card; they would already have what they need on file. Anyone who […]
Food security = important for humans and other animals too
As leaves change colour and drop from trees, and a chill in the air signals the approach of winter, many of us are thinking of the fall harvest and hearty soups and dishes that will soon warm our bellies. Not everyone is lucky enough to enjoy such thoughts. About four million Canadians — including more than a million children...
Opinion: Putting patient food in the hands of corporations reveals the trouble with normal
It's amazing what we gradually accept as normal -- even admirable -- in how we treat each other in Canada. Practices that were once seen as a repugnant surrender to government indifference, like food banks, are now virtually celebrated as a high point of citizen engagement and promoted as such by our public broadcaster once...
