News & Updates
The Provincial Budget Dreams of a Climate Coalition
For too long, the conversation has been centered around how much it will cost to address climate change and not how much it will cost not to.
Climate inaction is costing us billions
Climate action is preventative healthcare, both figuratively and literally. If we want to live full, healthy lives and use our public resources most effectively, we have to put in the time – and the cash – right now.
Hydro Rate Increases Unnecessary for Building Sector
In light of recent comments by Manitoba Hydro CEO, we’re highlighting an opportunity to save homeowners money and reduce electricity demand by creating a new geothermal utility.
Comparing to China’s Emissions: A False and Inappropriate Rhetoric
Measuring total emissions without taking into account population is inaccurate
75% of Manitobans want our government to Consider Climate
In March 2023, Manitoba's Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Office, Climate Reality, and Manitoba's Climate Action Team commission a poll through Probe Research in an effort to learn how involved Manitobans think our provincial government should be in addressing...
Review of Manitoba’s emission reduction report card: we’re lagging behind
No further emission increases are tolerable. Any more half-baked measures will half-bake us.
Advice to my younger self
“Hope is short-lived unless coupled with a desire for future worlds that are not depressing but instead so enticing that they might lead us to yearn for a new way of being.”
Launch of Affordable Energy Policy Solutions in Manitoba
The first section of Road to Resilience: Volume 3, Policy Solutions is here
The 2023 provincial budget is too sparse on climate spending
Climate spending creates jobs, saves households money, and creates healthier, more equitable communities
Tackle ‘fossilflation’ with local clean energy
Renewable energy is locally generated energy, not exposed to corporate profit-taking or market swings.