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The grace of Interior forests: a conversation with Suzanne Simard
Join SCBC Lead Organizer, Flossie Baker, for a conversation with UBC Professor and ‘Finding the Mother Tree’ author, Suzanne Simard, on the wonders of Interior forests.
SFU to Become a Trailblazer in Canadian Environmental Education
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Come Spring, Simon Fraser University (SFU) will be rolling…
Flathead River Valley – Where The Wild Things Are
The stars were so bright they seemed to be intently watching…
The Man Who Danced with the Treetops a Tribute to John Muir (1838-1914)
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play…
Speaking up against Kinder Morgan despite discouragement
Last week, I applied to participate in the National Energy Board review of Kinder Morgan’s proposed Trans Mountain pipeline.
BC fails in methane math
This piece by Dr. Colin Campbell, former Sierra Club BC Science…
Protecting Our Forests
B.C.'s coastal rainforest is the best carbon storehouse of the province. Other forest lands, too, have great potential as allies in the fight against climate change—if we nurture and maintain their carbon-absorbing capacity.
B.C. Carbon Emissions Four Times Higher than Reported
B.C.’s greenhouse gas emissions quadruple when emissions from fossil fuel exports and forests are counted, according to a Sierra Club BC report released on September 13.
Old-growth logging eliminates B.C.’s progress in reducing carbon emissions
A new report released today by Sierra Club BC - Carbon at Risk: BC’s Unprotected Old-growth Rainforest - shows that one year of logging old-growth rainforest in southwest B.C.is responsible for releasing approximately 3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
B.C.’s remaining old-growth forests non-renewable: Sierra Club report
One year of logging old-growth forests in southwestern British Columbia blows away a year of carbon emissions reductions made through climate-change fighting initiatives like the carbon tax, says a Sierra Club report released today.
Carbon sinks at risk
One year of logging old-growth rainforest on Vancouver Island and the south coast eliminates B.C.'s progress in reducing annual emissions, a new Sierra Club BC report shows.
A call for climate action
Against the backdrop of record temperatures blistering North America and record ice melt in the Arctic, the B.C. government unflinchingly supports new coal mines, fracking projects and unsustainable logging rates without paying attention to the consequences for the atmosphere.
Province ignoring massive carbon emissions: report
British Columbia is not taking responsibility for vast amounts of its green-house gas emissions, says a paper to be released Thursday by the Sierra Club of B.C.
