This ongoing archive of Georgia Straight articles includes issues such as climate, sustainability, environment and ecosystems, pollution and waste, ocean health and sealife, wildlife, endangered species and extinction, wildfires, and more.

Transportation

Save Old Growth group plans second disruption of Trans-Canada highway in January

Jan 16

Climate activists are going to get in front of traffic this week to draw attention to provincial logging policies.

Straight Talk

Park board wants people to avoid parts of the seawall after spending millions to make it more climate-resilient

Jan 16

It's asked the public not to go around the barricades because of unseen hazards.

Commentary

Canada chooses oil companies over Indigenous peoples

Jan 15

Indigenous resistance to fossil-fuel expansion has significantly stopped or delayed greenhouse-gas pollution in Canada and the U.S.

Commentary

David Suzuki: Rest is good, but resolving global crises means not looking away

Jan 13

Change won’t happen until we demand it, and unless we face the flames, there is little chance we’ll be sufficiently motivated to put them out.

Education

Santa Ono: At the University of British Columbia, we are committed to doing our part to address the climate crisis

Jan 12

B.C.'s largest university has reduced annual greenhouse-gas emissions by approximately 30 percent since 2007.

Transportation

New direct-action group called Save Old Growth plans to disrupt traffic at spots along Trans-Canada Highway in B.C.

Jan 9

One of the organizers says that if the government delays action, the tactics will escalate in their frequency and extent.

Commentary

David Suzuki: Everything under the sun

Jan 5

As the days grow longer with the promise of the sun, let’s all do what we can to spread light and joy in the world.

Book Features

In All We Want, Vancouver author Michael Harris finds alternatives to rampant consumerism

Dec 31

He says that ideal tone he aims for is "a really great dinner-table conversation".

Straight Talk

BC Hydro says electricity demand during extreme freeze smashed 2020 record

Dec 30

The new record is 325 megawatts higher that the old one, which was set last year.

Straight Talk

Poll shows Quebec and B.C. residents most likely to feel that Trudeau's doing too little to address climate

Dec 27

The poll also showed that It showed that 62 percent of Saskatchewan respondents and 56 percent of Alberta respondents felt that the Trudeau government was "pushing too hard on climate change".

Commentary

David Suzuki: Where do we go from COP26 in 2022?

Dec 26

Our country must sign on to the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance and deliver on the commitment to end public finance for oil and gas subsidies abroad by 2022.

Commentary

My Christmas Day wish: a climate-literate and climate-conscious senator for B.C.

Dec 25

Justin Trudeau has left one of B.C's Senate seats vacant for more than two years after the retirement of Richard Neufeld.