OPINIONS: Differing Views on the Paris Climate Agreement
On the positive side, in a spirit of optimism, we have this report from "Tree Alerts": "195 countries reached across traditional divides today to unite behind the greatest moral challenge of our time and seal the deal on a historic climate accord. The Paris Agreement is an inclusive, ambitious, science-based deal that...
Sock Puppets Explain Climate Change
Local climate change sock puppet experts, with the help of their colleagues Aaron Cosbey & Rachael Roussin, presented a lively overview of the global and local effects of climate change to a crowd of 90 people at the Miners Hall last Sunday. "Sock-rateez" warned Rosslanders that we can expect to see hotter, dryer summers...
Growing Food and Rossland's Economy
There is an exciting movement happening in Rossland. It’s even visible from space…well, from planes and Google Earth at least. It’s a movement that was critical to Rossland’s survival in the early years, went out of fashion for the better part of a century and is now re-emerging as an important part of our future. A group...
COLUMN: I Think, And My MInd Sprouts New Stems
“Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we’re going…” -- Neil Young, Candle in the Dark “We are stupid, fickle beings with feeble memories… But who knows? Maybe this time we will not forget what has happened, we will learn from it…”...
Complaint Filed Against Climate Change Denier Groups
Six leading Canadians are calling on the Commissioner of Competition to investigate false and misleading representations made by climate change denier groups, such as Friends of Science. One example of the claims being complained of is shown above, on a billboard. Canada’s Competition Act prohibits the making of materially...
COLUMN: COP21: Hope for Humanity
by David Suzuki With world leaders now meeting in Paris for the UN Climate Change Conference, we’re seeing signs of hope for an agreement to limit the escalating effects of global warming. Canadians, especially, have reason to be optimistic about our country’s role. It hasn’t always been this way. Governments have been...
A Plea on Climate Change
While large numbers of Rosslanders (and others) found comfort in the sunshine on Sunday by skiing on the Blackjack trails, and doing just about everything -- skiing, snowshoeing, hiking and fat-bike riding -- up around Nancy Greene Pass, a crowd of about 200 Rosslanders gathered downtown in the winter fog-gloom, outside the...
This Changes Everything
“This Changes Everything“ will show on Sunday, December 6, at the Rossland Miners Hall. Come at 7:00 pm. There will be sock puppets! Based on Naomi Klein's bestselling book by the same title, the film This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. Shot over 211 days in ...
About That New Water Act: What We Still Need
Rossland had a fairly dry summer in 2015, with watering restrictions imposed in additon to our water metering. Now that rain has returned, our reservoirs are filling up again, and there is even enough water that snow-making operations are well under way on Red Mountain. We can all breathe a sigh of relief -- for now. This...
OP/ED: Protect water sources from free ranging cattle
Newsletter... I am sharing a few pictures that represent a typical water/grassland scene on the Gipin Grasslands. The pictures showcase the largest tributary to Morrissey Creek before the creek drops into a canyon and an adjacent meadow that was the site of a recent forest thinning burn. Morrissey Creek watershed is one of ...
