https://www.ecologyaction.ca/blog/whatever-happens-paris-we%E2%80%99re-already-winning Talking Paris: Whatever happens, we’re already winning I know that we are already successful because the transition we seek is well underway and gaining momentum. The status quo of reckless resource exploitation, profit-fueled pollution and gutless capitalism is in its death throes. It will be a long and violent death, and we must fortify… Read More Catherine Abreu: Kicking Back at COP 21

“But when leading Buddhist figures, along with a mass of laity and sympathizers, begin to embrace a novel interpretation, practice, or idea, it should alert the scholar than an important reconstruction of doctrine is underway and that a new normativity could be emerging. . . The history of religions is precisely the history of such… Read More Go Mod, Buddha Baby

Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould announces inquiry into missing Indigenous women By Jenny Uechi & Fram Dinshaw in News, Politics | December 8th 2015 Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould from Canadian Press Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould outlined the first phase of a national inquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women at a news conference in Ottawa on Tuesday. “Girls born in our Indigenous communities are… Read More Observer: Justice Minister Inquiry into Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women

The latest draft of the Paris climate agreement released Wednesday is not nearly ambitous enough to prevent catastrophic harm to the world’s poorest countries, or to help them adapt to global warming’s worst effects, experts suggest. The U.K. advocacy group Friends of the Earth says the COP21 negotiations are about rich countries deciding whose economies… Read More Observer:World’s survival on the table in final hours of COP21

By Mychaylo Prystupa in News, COP21 | December 8th 2015 #37 of 42 articles from the Special Report:COP21 Suncor oil sands mechanic Ken Smith speaks to “One Million Climate Jobs” event at COP21 summit in Paris on Thursday. Photo by Mychaylo Prystupa. An unlikely climate change hero stood up at the Paris climate summit to urge the sunset of Canada’s oil… Read More At COP21, oil sands worker urges transition off fossil fuels