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Just want to thank you to Catherine McKenna for all the hard work she is doing! Thank God we have her on our side, let's just pray she achieves the goals we need to succeed.
#COP21 Climate Conference in Paris
Christy Clark- yes Canada was well received but not you Ms. LNG /Fracking /Tankers/Pipelines/FishFarms- You DO have a LOT of work ahead, cleaning up destruction.
You were really quick to promote the #BCTech and focus on that.
English translation for French -
MINISTER MCKENNA: Mr. Minister, why is it important for us to work together?
MINISTER
HEURTEL: So, Minister, it’s… Moreover, I congratulate you for your
actions here in Paris over the last few days. Because we really feel a
spirit of collaboration among the federal government, the provinces and
territories. Also, it will be together that we will succeed in fighting
climate change. A great collaboration is taking shape and that is why it
is important that we do that first and foremost from our end obviously
for Quebeckers but also for all Canadians. And it’s extraordinary what
we… what we are beginning here in Paris. Also, the work that we will
continue to do there together in the coming months and years.
MINISTER
MCKENNA: Thank you for being here. We will work together and Quebec has
done a lot of work so we will be a partner going forward.
A GLOBAL SEARCH FOR GRASSROOTS CLIMATE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS
The
Equator Initiative has received hundreds of nominations for the Equator
Prize 2015 as part of an extensive partnership effort underway to
strengthen and highlight the role of indigenous peoples and local
communities at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC
COP21).
The Equator Prize 2015 will be awarded
to 20 outstanding local and indigenous initiatives that are advancing
innovative solutions for people, nature and resilient communities.
Winning
initiatives will join a prestigious network of 187 leading
community-based organizations from 70 different countries that have been
awarded the Equator Prize since 2002. Each winning initiative will
receive US$ 10,000 and be supported to participate in a series of policy
dialogues and special events at the UNFCCC COP21 in Paris, France in
December 2015.
The first wave of Syrian refugees will arrive by military aircraft in
Canada tomorrow, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced in the House of
Commons today.
HEY, WE NEED YOUR GREEN IDEAS!!! Make a 60 second video before Dec 10 2015
Let's save the world! http://www.cop21paris.org/
Submit your video and it may be shared at some of Minister McKenna’s
stakeholder briefings at COP21. Load your video to YouTube and tweet the
link to @ec_minister, using #COP21Can.
Deadline is December 10, 2015 at 6:00 PM EST.
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Videos must be posted by someone 18+. Children may only be recorded by parents or legal guardians.
Videos must be no longer than 60 seconds.
Video must be produced in one of Canada’s official languages.
Only
video links will be considered if submitted on Twitter to @ec_minister
using #COP21Can, between November 24, 2015 at 10:30 AM EST and December
10, 2015 at 6 PM EST.
Make sure to submit only original thoughts, as per the Copyright Act. http://lois-laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/ac...
Do not post content that:
- Contains personal information such as addresses or phone numbers;
- Are contrary to the principles of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms;
- Expresses racist, hateful, sexist, homophobic, slanderous, insulting or life-threatening messages;
- Puts forward serious, unproven or inaccurate accusations against individuals or organizations;
- Is aggressive, coarse, violent, obscene or pornographic;
- Is offensive, rude or abusive to an individual or an organization;
- Is not sent by the author or are put forward for advertising purposes;
- Encourages illegal activity;
- Contains announcements from labour or political organizations;
Undercover police crack down on freedom of speech in Paris
Yesterday undercover police cracked down on anyone questioning the sponsors of a corporate “Solutions 21” event in Paris.The action was supported by Corporate Europe Observatory, Les Amis de la Terre France, Attac France (Officiel), Climate Justice Action, JEDIs, Solidaire and Friends of the Earth France. Kandi Mossett from the Indigenous Environmental Network spoke at the event.For more grassroots coverage from Paris: www.newint.org/live/parisRead the truth about corporate influence at COP21: www.goo.gl/8eAZFD
Posted by New Internationalist Magazine on Saturday, December 5, 2015
Currently at an action with 196 chairs taken hostage successfully by activists from BNP Banks around Paris to represent the number of delegate countries represented at #COP21 they took the banks chairs because their subsidiaries are hiding money in tax havens. If they close their tax havens then the activists will give their chairs back.
Posted by Samantha Castro on Sunday, December 6, 2015
This was taken out side prince Rupert b.c off of smith island- This is close to Lelu Island #SaveLelu
Posted by Vincent Davis on Thursday, December 3, 2015
If you’d
like to make a donation, you can bring your new or gently used winter
coat to the BCSPCA Thriftmart in New Westminster at 615 12th Street.
Coats are only accepted during normal business hours, 10am-5pm, seven
days a week.
For additional drop-off locations across the Lower
Mainland, please call 604-540-7722.
"The
organizers behind a Vancouver Christmas coat drive are appealing for
help. They need at least 200 gently used winter coats, but as of Sunday,
they only have about 50.
“This year the economy is tough on some
people and it’s starting at the top and hitting the bottom hard. Most
people usually have two or three or four coats in their closet that
they’re not wearing and this year, everybody’s making do with what they
have,” said Roni-Lyn Sanders.
The Right of the Indigenous Must be Valued and Respected! Their world is hardest hit by climate change.
Canoe 2 Paris
Indigenous Flotilla of Kayaks & Press Conference Demanding True Climate Solutions at COP21
During the COP21 climate talks in
Paris, Indigenous Peoples from the Arctic to the Amazon and their allies
will gather to demand real climate solutions, including bottom-up
initiatives originating in Indigenous knowledge, culture, and
spirituality.
What: Sunday’s event will
feature an all-indigenous flotilla of kayaks followed by a press
conference featuring Indigenous leaders from the Americas offering
solutions to stave off the worst of climate change and protect Mother
Earth.
The
launching of a declaration calling on world leaders to keep fossil fuels
in the ground, led by Indigenous peoples and signed by over 150
organizations.
The signing announcement from Indigenous women leaders from North and South America of a treaty to protect Mother Earth.
Presentation
of the Kawsak Sacha “Living Forest” proposal from the Amazon rainforest
by the Kichwa Indigenous people of Sarayaku.
Indigenous
flotilla on the Bassin de la Villette, including Sarayaku’s “Canoe of
Life” which has traveled 6000 miles to Paris with a message from the
Amazon.
When: The flotilla action will start Sunday, December 6th at 2 pm local time, immediately followed by a press conference
Who: The press conference will
be led by Indigenous peoples organizations and movements including
Indigenous Environmental Network; Idle No More, and the Kichwa community
of Sarayaku from Ecuador.
Indigenous spokespeople speaking at the press conference:
Felix Santi
(Kichwa): President of the Kichwa community of Sarayaku in the
Ecuadorian Amazon, speaking about the Canoe of Life and the Living
Forest concept;
Faith Gemmill (Gwich’in
& Pit River/Wintu): Executive Director of Resisting Environmental
Destruction on Indigenous Lands, speaking on the Declaration to Keep
Fossil Fuels in the Ground;
Casey Camp-Horinek (Ponca): Native rights activist, environmentalist and actress, speaking on the Indigenous Women’s Treaty; and
Ena Santi (Kichwa): Sarayaku Council Member in charge of Women’s Issues, speaking on the Indigenous Women’s Treaty
Other spokespeople available for comment post-press conference:
Tom Goldtooth (Dine’ and Dakota): Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network
Leila Salazar-López: Executive Director of Amazon Watch
Eric Pica: Executive Director of Friends of the Earth
Esperanza MartÃnez: Director of Acción Ecológica
Lindsey Allen: Executive Director of Rainforest Action Network
May Boeve: Executive Director of 350.org
Mary Anne Hitt: Director of Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign
Visuals:
Indigenous
flotilla of several canoes and at least 25 kayaks adorned with
Indigenous art work representing the different Indigenous cultures
participating in the event;
Colorful banners and flags; and
Indigenous representatives wearing their traditional attire and regalia
Indigenous Peoples Protest for Rights in Paris
Indigenous peoples from the Arctic to the Amazon took to the waters of Paris, calling for the UN #COP21 climate agreement to include indigenous land rights.(Music courtesy: A Tribe Called Red)
Posted by AJ+ on Tuesday, December 8, 2015
14-year old singer-songwriter Ta'kaiya Blaney, from the Tla'Amin First
Nation in British Columbia, closes the Rights of Nature Tribunal in
Paris, December 5, 2015, with a stirring song of hope and
transformation.
Ta’Kaiya Blaney in Rio for the Earth Summit. Photo by Zack Embree.
Published on Youtube:
In December 2015, the world's adults will gather in Paris to stop the climate change. Unfortunately, the pledges they are making aren’t enough to halt the increase in Earth's temperature.
Therefore, children from all over the world are going to Södertälje, to have their own climate conference, and put pressure on the world's adults.
During the Children's Climate Conference, the children will discuss the climate issue and create an appeal to the leaders in Paris.
– It is childishly simple. We only have one planet, and one chance to save the world.
It's so beautiful that she could do this and I had so much admiration for her. I might have been able to do what she did before Angel (I did a lot of solo travelling then) but not after...after having kids I believe your fears grow even more because you are afraid for them or for them if you loose your life...which could happen if you went sailing off alone around the world.
I am so sorry I can not do more, but I am sharing your story and saying prayers for you. My friends in Mexico, at certain times of year the whole beach washes away...and they replace it and rebuild. It happened this year. And that is a bad and I feel very bad for them...and they have no place to go as it is there home....but to be an island...where can't you get sand from...land from...? what CAN you do?
I live at the ocean, how high will the water come...what does the future hold? What if there's more eco disasters with pipelines and spills, earthquakes from LNG...oh, I don't want to go there.
I want to be positive, but you, you are stuck between a rock and a hard place. I pray for you. I pray and meditate for positive things to happen to all of us on this earth. We need lighthouses of peace.
Please Share the Marshall Islands story. It's life and death...
Maybe this is why some in the US don't want any refugees, they have the Marshall Islanders to look after. But so many people are NOT aware so I doubt it's that!
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"But for all his diplomatic acumen, Mr. deBrum’s advocacy for a small
island nation being swallowed by a vast ocean does not always rise above
the roar of the surf. At a recent conference convened to draft the
Paris accord, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar of India listened
to his pleas, then responded brusquely, “So what?”"
"But the Marshall Islands holds an important card: Under a 1986 compact,
the roughly 70,000 residents of the Marshalls, because of their long
military ties to Washington, are free to emigrate to the United States, a
pass that will become more enticing as the water rises on the islands’
shores."
"Most of the 1,000 or so Marshall Islands, spread out over 29 narrow
coral atolls in the South Pacific, are less than six feet above sea
level — and few are more than a mile wide. For the Marshallese, the
destructive power of the rising seas is already an inescapable part of
daily life. Changing global trade winds have raised sea levels in the
South Pacific about a foot over the past 30 years, faster than
elsewhere. Scientists are studying whether those changing trade winds
have anything to do with climate change."
"In neighborhoods like Mr. Anej’s, after the sewage-filled tides wash
into homes, fever and dysentery soon follow. On other islands, the wash
of saltwater has penetrated and salinated underground freshwater supply.
On Majuro, flooding tides damaged hundreds of homes in 2013. The
elementary school closed for nearly two weeks to shelter families. That
same year, the airport temporarily closed after tides flooded the
runway."
"During the Cold War, the
United States military detonated 67 nuclear bombs on or close to the
nearby Bikini Atoll and Enewetak Atoll — after first relocating the
Bikini Islanders to different locations around the Marshalls."
"At age 9, Mr. deBrum was fishing with his
grandfather when he saw the flash of one of the tests on the horizon.
“Within seconds, the entire sky had turned red, like a fishbowl had been
put over my head, and blood poured over it,” he recalled."
"The deal offered: an open door to the
Marshallese and Bikini Islanders. That bargain has already fostered
communities of thousands of Marshall Islanders in Springdale, Ark., and
Salem, Ore., fleeing a deluged future. "
Carols in the City is a public event providing a
little holiday cheer and a dash of community during the season of
Christmas.
Hot Cocoa, shelter, candles, and lyrics will be provided.
Stop by for a song or join us for the whole time.
Come join unpractised
carollers and amazing musicians on the South Steps of the Vancouver Art
Gallery on December 23, 2015 in what we hope will become an Annual
Event.
Born of Mohawk and Cayuga descent, musical icon Robbie Robertson learned
the story of Hiawatha and his spiritual guide, the Peacemaker, as part
of the Iroquois oral tradition. Now he shares the same gift of
storytelling with a new generation.
Hiawatha and the Peacemaker
Hiawatha was a strong and
articulate Mohawk who was chosen to translate the Peacemaker’s message
of unity for the five warring Iroquois nations during the 14th century.
This message not only succeeded in uniting the tribes but also forever
changed how the Iroquois governed themselves—a blueprint for democracy
that would later inspire the authors of the U.S. Constitution.
Caldecott
Honor–winning illustrator David Shannon brings the journey of Hiawatha
and the Peacemaker to life with arresting oil paintings. Together,
Robertson and Shannon have crafted a new children’s classic that will
both educate and inspire readers of all ages.
Includes a CD featuring a new, original song written and performed by Robbie Robertson.
This is what it has come to in Shawnigan Lake. A young mother, her baby
strapped to her chest, and a grandfather, standing together in front of
a 40-tonne dump truck before dawn on a cold December morning.http://soniafurstenau.ca/2015/12/01/when-will-it-be-enough/
"This is what it has come to in Shawnigan Lake. A young mother, her baby
strapped to her chest, and a grandfather, standing together in front of
a 40-tonne dump truck before dawn on a cold December morning.
Every morning, we return to the mountain. Sometimes dozens of us,
sometimes only a few, but we return because this situation – a company
being allowed by our government to dump contaminated soil in our
watershed – is an affront to democracy, to common sense, to logic, and
to science. And it is a threat to our survival as a community." ---------------------------------------------------------- Christy Clark - SHAME ON YOU!!! HOW CAN YOU LIVE WITH YOURSELF!
Please to the powers that be help these people in their fight to have clean water. It is a HUMAN RIGHT!!
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the
health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food,
clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services,
and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness,
disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in
circumstances beyond his control.
Motherhood and childhood
are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether
born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
Trucker grabs and shoves protester at Shawnigan Lake soil dump protest
“All you
need is two eyes to see it’s a bad idea to put toxic soils in a
watershed looking down on the drinking water for 12,000 people,” said
NDP leader John Horgan to a crowd at the legislature at a protest last
May.
I didn't know that Iceland was hunting whales. I have heard such great things about Iceland, how they fired the bankers and did all these great things but then this...it's the same with Norway I have heard great things about how their kids are so educated and they have great lives but then they put their fish farms in BC and are killing our salmon.
I was surprised by this today but I do love whales and I accept their #CallToAction and I will share this so you are informed and give you the opportunity to speak out and contact your MP's and ask you to do whatever you can to make changes to stop killing whales. #SavetheWhales #SavetheWhales #OpWhale #Anonymous
