“In past decade, clean energy investment worldwide has risen 10x to > $2tn a year, last year, 2x that of fossil fuels … cleantech from China is affordable in global south as are battery technologies, spreading EV market to countries in Africa and South America” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

“If we carry on emitting at current rates, accelerate risks to health for current and future generations: more people suffering and dying from excess heat, floods and infectious diseases, air pollution from wildfires, more preterm births and more food insecurity” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“He watched a tractor he had hired, with a front loader at the front and jackhammer at the back, rip apart the last remnants of the house his father had built, which in turn had been on the site of his grandparents’ home” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

"Foresters should stand in a forest and ask, “What needs to stay?” – instead of, “What can I take?” www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article...

“2050 net zero target not supported by any plan to achieve net zero ... Canada is already falling far short of meeting its 2035 targets … Constructing a new pipeline when there are lower-cost options is not a smart way to build” www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

“10% of annual potato production is rejected for food … We extract the starch on site and recover the water contained in the potatoes. We reinject part of that water into the extraction process and treat the rest so it can be reused locally” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/15/n...

“By allowing more gas to be used, we will make it more expensive for ratepayers in Canada, because renewables are cheaper than gas,” Guilbeault said. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/14/n...

“They give the fish feed contaminated by rats, have mistakenly let penned fish escape into surrounding wild waterways and that they kill thousands of fish because they have produced too many of them” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Durán fenced off 30 ha of 1,000-hectare farm as a protected area, allowing visitors to watch from a distance ,,. Minks and grey foxes, invasive species introduced to Tierra del Fuego in the 20th century, posed a novel threat to the penguins” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Challenge not only what built, but choices set in motion by shaping how power is exercised — and by whom — on Earth and beyond. If most people never leave Earth, rules written and capabilities of space will shape opportunities and challenges for all” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/14/o...

“At vision quest at Indigenous cultural centre: weight of world is not on your individual shoulders, but what you do with your energy every day is. We can use our energy for good, or we can use our energy for bad. And your job, your purpose in life, is joy” www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

“Nature reserve attracted 17,000 visitors/yr; free entry, tea and entertainments. He invited poor neighbours to catch fish from lake; recognised mental health benefits of nature, bringing patients from a nearby mental health institution” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Sudan has port territory across Red Sea and trade route that the UAE covets. Sudan is also rich in gold … UAE’s efforts to establish itself as a regional player have left war and devastation in its wake, most calamitously in Sudan” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Both fall and spring temperatures getting warmer; harder for apples to meet their chilling requirement, minimum period of cold before tree flowers. Trees also enter dormancy later and come out sooner; longer window of vulnerability to cold snaps that occur” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate change will not adjust to our timeline. “A new accord on industrial carbon pricing has fee going up to $130 a tonne by 2040 … if cabinet approves new deal, that price will be far less stringent than the $170-by-2030 charge announced previously” www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

“Explosion of seaweed with high levels of nitrates in water, from industrial farming's synthetic fertilisers and nitrogen-rich animal feed. Brittany is agricultural heartland of France. On 5% of country’s surface, it crowds more than half of its pig population” www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

“Sand mined to build homes, roads and sea walls in concrete production, foundations, masonry work, windows, silicon chips and solar panels. Just as crucial left in place: it regulates rivers, protects coastal aquifers, filters water and sustains biodiversity” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Billionaire wealth increased by 81% since 2020, while one in four people don’t regularly have enough to eat … Billionaires own more than half the world’s largest media companies and all the main social media companies.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Question of pain is particularly pertinent for crickets – chickens and cows of insect world – farmed in their billions and trillions for food, feed and research. If they’re capable of having better and worse lives, then we should take that into consideration” www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

“Between 2011 and 2020, Indigenous peoples and local communities involved in land tenure and forest management received less than 1 per cent of global funding for climate change mitigation and adaptation” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/12/n...

“Haida and other coastal First Nations will fight any effort to repeal the law because they say the risk of a catastrophic spill in these waters is high, and the result would be devastating for the marine environment and for the communities that rely upon it” www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

“The flourishing of the world depends on this friction between us. If we can’t come face to face, we have no impact on life – we just consume it,” he says. “Modernity is very active in making us consumers but leaves little time and space to coexist” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

“Aleana Young, the NDP critic for SaskPower, argued Harrison's plan is still more expensive. She cited her own $20-billion proposal to expand wind, solar and natural gas, while allowing existing coal plants to retire at their end of life.” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/08/n...

“Mennonites produced 20 to 40% of Bolivia’s soy, much at expense of Bolivia’s tropical and dry forests, which stood where fields of soy now grow.” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/11/n...

“Question the use of industry-prepared template resolutions in municipal decision-making. Council should ensure any resolution reflects Severn’s own priorities and the broader public interest, not simply the position of a private company” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/11/n...

“Writing is a way of learning what one thinks by attempting to say it … I want students’ words. I want access to their thinking, their voice, their struggles to find what they want to say and the best way to say it” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

“The average wind and solar project can be delivered within three years, so projects approved now will be generating electricity by 2030.” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/08/o...

“She found that Otto Schaefer, member of Order of Canada described on federal website as “one of great pioneers of Arctic medicine,” had conducted “a slew” of “unethical studies done without informed consent on patients in segregated Indigenous hospitals” www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

“If people worldwide biked at rates of Dutch, avg 2.6 km per person per day, global emissions could fall by 686 million tonnes of CO2 annually, comparable to Canada’s total annual emissions … For short trips, cycling is often faster, cheaper, and healthier” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/07/o...

“If the data centre project is entirely powered by natural gas and doesn't capture any of those emissions, it will set Canada back 20 years in carbon emissions reductions and wipe out the reductions gained by phasing out coal” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/03/n...

“Recycled wool saves 60% of the virgin alternative’s negative impacts. Annually, recycled textiles save 60 million kw of energy, 18,000 t of CO2, and 500,000 cubic m of water worldwide. … Mycelium Leather can see 85 to 94% reduction in CO2 emissions” www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/08/a...

“Guardians, Indigenous version of park ranger or a coast guard, who pass province’s ranger training now have authority to enforce both BC and Indigenous laws in provincial parks, and they’re the main eyes and ears monitoring the Central Coast today.” www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/07/n...

“A classroom-worth of children killed each day in Gaza since war began.…Tens of thousands of children injured; many are amputees. Children of Gaza have rights of children anywhere – to water, to food, to shelter, to education, to play, to hope, to joy. To life.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“25% of the micro-agrivoltaics farmers reported no change in crop yield under solar panels; 35% reported marginally higher yields; while 40% reported significantly higher yields under solar panels (>20% higher).” www.iisd.org/articles/ins...

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“In natural forest, trees die, decay where they fall. Nutrients are slowly recycled through complex, interconnected, interdependent processes that take centuries. Modern forestry speeds everything up. We log, burn, mulch, pelletize. We ship out whole trees.” www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/13/o...

“Before 2018, CA's largest wildfire was the Thomas fire (280,000 acres). The current Park fire burned more in it's first 3 days. It's the state's fourth-largest on record, at 430,000 acres -- joining the rapidly swelling ranks of unprecedented megafires.” www.nationalobserver.com/2024/08/26/a...

Guilbeault said, “species are still going extinct, we're still unsustainably using natural resources, we're not protecting critical habitats and we've still not collectively realized that in the fight against climate change, our biggest ally is nature.” www.nationalobserver.com/2024/08/22/n...