From My Bottom Step

#1 on Global Warming ‘Most Wanted’ List?

What’s the real cost of automobile travel?

Climate & Energy Meetup

Post-Carbon London sponsors this get-together, every month at the East Village Coffee House (785 Dundas Street E.).

Come out to talk to others who are interested in local food, alternative transportation, and various other activities supported by Post-Carbon London. We focus on global warming, peak oil, and other problems resulting from fossil fuel consumption.

Everyone is welcome.

Transition London

Several hundred million years ago when the earth’s atmosphere was rich in carbon dioxide and the ocean floor’s were lined with sulphur dioxide, plankton and bacteria thrived and turned into oil. But those conditions haven’t existed for a long time now, and oil is no longer being naturally formed.

Depending on whose estimates you’re prepared to believe, the world’s oil supply will be depleted some time within the next 85 years. But the problems will start to occur a lot sooner than that.

Again, people’s opinions differ about whether or not we have already reached peak oil. That’s the point beyond which the world can no longer produce as much oil as it previously could, and it’s followed by a steadily declining production slope. People’s opinions also differ greatly about what the possible negative consequences of less oil availability may be. Continue Reading

We Won!

OMG, did you hear the news? At the Copenhagen climate change conference, environmentalists from all over the world accorded Canada a “Colossal Fossil” award.

Clad in a tuxedo for the momentous occasion, Ben Wikler (Avaaz.org) was quoted as saying: Continue Reading

Local climate justice group speaks up for striking transit workers.

Mobilization for Climate Justice-London (M4CJ), an environmental justice group here in London, Ontario, has issued a statement, trying to make the case to other environmentalists that they should support London’s transit workers (A.T.U. Local 741) in their strike against their employer, the London Transit Commission (LTC).

Invitation to a Film Screening

You’re invited to the free London film premiere of In Transition.

International Day of Climate Action – 2009

I attended the event at the Wolf Performance Hall this afternoon to mark the International Day of Climate Action.

(I’m also quietly commemorating Dave Winfield’s two-run 11th-inning double that captured the 1992 World Series and made Toronto’s Jays the first non-American team to win it.)

The individual presentations by Maryanne MacDonald, Jay Stanford and Sara Seck were quite good and I may post something about them later, … Continue Reading

Climate Change and Activism

Join us on the International Day of Climate Action in London to learn what your city is doing on a local and international level. Learn about the Copenhagen Process from UWO professor Sara Seck; City of London’s Jay Stanford on London initiatives; and Maryanne MacDonald of Waste Free World speaking on Activism and the Municipal Bottled Water Ban.

Central Library – 1st Floor Wolf Performance Hall
Free!
No Registration Required; just … Continue Reading

MSEC Speaker Series #1

How Should We Respond to Climate Change?

An internationally renowned expert on environmental issues and a Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Gordon McBean, will deliver this first presentation in a Speaker Series hosted by the Mayor’s Sustainable Energy Council.
Dr. McBean is a professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Western Ontario and serves as the Research Chair (Policy) at UWO’s Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction. … Continue Reading

Thermostat Management

A Throbgoblins contribution (published with permission ).