News & Updates
Community Building Green Audits
In mid-January we had our first Community Building Green Audit meeting with Swan Lake First Nation, and it was a great success.
Manitoba government “affordability” announcement fails people and planet
Today’s announcement by Premier Heather Stefanson is playing politics with the affordability crisis and climate action.
Climate action requires provincial leadership
All governments must heed the dire warnings from United Nations scientists calling for action on climate.
A Quick Introduction to the Social Cost of Carbon
A Quick Introduction to the Social Cost of CarbonAt last, in its most recent review of climate science, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change worked up the courage to say:[1] It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land....
Climate Action Incentive = Opportunity: Coming to you
“Cost of living is through the roof, fuel prices are at record highs, we can’t afford carbon taxes!” Quite the contrary. Canada has had a carbon price for a few years now, and it will not (and definitely should not) go anywhere. Pricing carbon pollution is widely...
Sustainable Agriculture: Fact and Fancy
Agriculture contributes 8 per cent of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions, so we need to change how we farm. Climate change will also reduce the quality and quantity of our food. Addressing climate change, then, will help save the rural prairie economy.
International Disappointment Parties: COP vs. the Road to Resilience
Representatives from around the world converged in Glasgow for COP26 in November (after being delayed one year due to the global pandemic), to check in again on who’s responsible for stopping climate change. I’m going to go ahead and spoil the main outcome right now:...
Road to Resilience: Energy Solutions Fact Sheet
Energy Solutions for Manitoba is the a groundbreaking study to examine in detail how a Canadian province can replace its fossil fuels with low-carbon electricity. In Manitoba, all fossil fuels are imported and account for roughly 60% of annual climate pollution. In...
A Just Transition— a good idea. Tell the Feds on March 12th
On February 28th, the leading climate scientists of the world (270 of them from 67 countries) told us (again) that if we don’t rapidly transition away from fossil fuels now, our future is unfathomably difficult—it is hungry, it is sick, it is war-torn, it is...
Winter Cycling 101
As the snow falls and the temperatures drop, many cyclists put away their bikes for the season. We are here to tell you that cycling doesn’t have to be a seasonal sport! Cycling is for all-year-round commuting, transportation, and leisure – even in Manitoba. Cycling...