Politics and its Discontents

I am currently reading a book by Michael Lewis called Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of A New Tycoon. A story about Samuel Bankman Fried ...

I have reached the point in my life where whatever optimism about the future I might have once held has given way to a searing, even corrosi...

If you watched Planet of The Humans , executive-produced by Michael Moore, like me you probably came away profoundly disillusioned. The fi...

Those with undying affection for, and advocacy of, fossil fuels are indulging in a venal nostalgia for the way things were. They cling to ...

It is indeed heartening to see so many young activists now regularly protesting the inertia that our political masters are mired in when ...

Now that Canada's plan to increase its greenhouse gas emissions and further threaten coastal waters has been dealt a massive blow by t...

Methinks most of us can all use a bit of good news. UPDATE: For an interesting answer to those who claim that renewable energy cannot b...

Because of our intractable and frequently selfish natures, humans look for the fabled deus ex machina to bail us out of our climate-change ...

Jimmy Carter will not be remembered as one of the great U.S. presidents, but when his long life ends, he will be remembered for something mu...

Sure, many will dismiss this as a Utopian socialist dream, especially given the neoliberal tenor of the times, but are there any other viabl...

As every critically-aware person well knows, we are facing some pretty daunting challenges; the most pressing is clearly climate change, mor...

I put this item together a while ago but I was reminded of it today while reading a report from the WMO, the World Meteorological Organiza...

Christine Penner Polle of Red Lake offers some observations that I suspect few but the most ardent ideologues would dispute: Re: Ottawa ...

Sometimes, seemingly intractable problems can be solved through a combination of ingenuity and goodwill. This story , about a solar lamp tha...