I support the David Suzuki Foundation as a member. The Foundation's website: http://www.davidsuzuki.org/ has excellent material on climate change, protecting human health, conserving our ocean, promoting global conservation and building a sustainable economy.
BOOKS
The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth Tim Flannery has written what Dr. David Suzuki calls ". . . one of the most important books of this young century . . . An urgent call to action that we cannot afford to ignore."
The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-Up, the Prescription
The New York Times notes that Ross Gelbspan's first book "remains the best, and virtually only, study of how the coal and oil industry has provided financing to a small group of contrarian scientists."
Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis--and What We Can Do to Avert Disaster
Ross Gelbpan's most recent book communicates his sincere belief that human civilization is in mortal peril from global warming.
The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
Richard Heinberg's book is a riveting wake-up call for human-kind as the oil era winds down, and a critical tool for understanding and influencing current U.S. foreign policy.
LINKS
Business
The Climate Group
The Climate Group is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing business and government leadership on climate change.
United Nations & Kyoto Protocol
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeThe IPCC assesses the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change.
United Nations
Official United Nations (UN) site pertaining to climate change and international agreements and conferences.
Convention on biological diversity (UN)
An overview of the connections between biological diversity and climate change, by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.
Kyoto Protocol - Full Text
Current list of countries that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol (PDF)
Energy Efficiency
Office of Energy
EfficiencyCanada's Office of Energy Efficiency has helpful tools and information to increase the energy efficiency of homes, vehicles, businesses, institutions and governments.
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network
The EREN is a program of the US Department of Energy.
Toronto Atmospheric Fund
The Toronto Atmospheric Fund was established by Toronto City Council to finance local initiatives to combat global warming and improve air quality.
Rocky Mountain Institute
The Rocky Mountain Institute promotes energy efficiency and conservation.
Green CommunitiesGreen Communities delivers home energy assessments in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.
Government
Government of Canada
The official Government of Canada web site pertaining to climate change.
Environment Canada
Environment Canada's climate change web site.
B.C. Ministry of Water and Air
The B.C. government's climate change home page contains information on climate change impacts and solutions for British Columbia.
City of Vancouver
One Day is a new Vancouver-based approach to change the way people consume energy in their homes and on the road.
Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.)
The EPA strives to present accurate information on the very broad issue of climate change and global warming.
European UnionThis is the official climate change web site of the European Union, outlining Europe's approach to this issue.
Green Buildings
Sustainable Building Centre
The SBC is an information and education centre, exhibition space and forum for sharing ideas on green building technologies.
Health
Health Canada
Health Canada's web site on Climate Change, health and air quality.
Climate Change and Human Health - Risks and Responses
This book describes the context and process of global climate change, with a particular focus on the health sector.
Physicians for Social Responsibility
This non-profit advocacy organization is the medical and public health voice for policies to stop nuclear war and proliferation and to slow, stop and reverse global warming and toxic degradation of the environment.
Kids, Youth & Teachers
Government of Canada
The Government of Canada has produced a series of seven classroom posters on the regional impacts of climate change in Canada.
Destination Conservation
Destination Conservation is a practical, activity-based program that brings environmental education alive in our schools.
Environmental Protection Agency
A global warming site for kids produced by the EPA.
Pembina Institute
The Pembina Institute has developed high-quality educational resources for use in Canadian schools.
Youth Climate Change Conference
The Youth Climate Change Conference (?YC3?) is a youth-lead initiative, focused on action, alternatives, and solutions for a changing world.
Re-Energy
Re-Energy.ca explores wind energy, water energy, solar energy, biomass energy and more. Teaching materials are included that make it easy for teachers to introduce renewable energy content into the classroom.
Bullfrog Films
Bullfrog Films is the oldest and largest publisher of videos and films about the environment in the United States.
News
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Comprehensive background information on climate change from the CBC.
British Broadcasting CorporationThe climate change information site of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Climate Wire
ClimateWire.org, updated daily, is a leading multi-sectoral, international news service specifically focussing on the issue of climate change.
Yahoo News -> Climate Change
Yahoo news updates on global climate change.
Non-Governmental Organizations
International Institute for Sustainable Development
IISD has been actively engaged in defining the framework in which global action on climate change may take place since the signing of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992.
Pembina Institute
The Pembina Institute works in the areas of sustainable energy, climate change, environmental governance, ecological fiscal reform, sustainability indicators, and the environmental impacts of the energy industry.
Natural Resources Defence Council
The Natural Resources Defence Council's web page on global warming and its consequences.
Canadian Climate Action Network
The Canadian Climate Action Network (CANet) is made up of more than 100 organizations across Canada working to protect the environment from harmful human interference of the atmosphere resulting in climate change.
International Climate Action Network
The Climate Action Network (CAN) is a worldwide network of over 340 NGOs working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change.
Climate Action Network Europe
Climate Action Network Europe is a coordinating office, based in Brussels, for environmental groups in Western Europe working on climate change issues.
Climate Ark
The Climate Ark is a climate change and renewable energy portal dedicated to promoting public policy that addresses global climate change.
Climate Institute
The Climate Institute serves as a bridge between policymakers and scientists around the world and is dedicated to being the world's foremost authority on climate change information, science and responses.
Environmental Defence
Both domestically and internationally, Environmental Defense works to stabilize Earth's climate by reducing the emission of greenhouse gases.
Greenpeace
Greenpeace International's climate change campaign.
National Wildlife Federation
The National Wildlife Federation explains the link between climate change and wildlife.
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change is a non-profit, non-partisan and independent organization dedicated to providing credible information and innovative solutions in the effort to address global climate change.
Stopglobalwarming.org
World Wildlife Fund
The climate change site of the WWF.
Sierra Club of Canada
The climate change campaign of the Sierra Club.
Smart Growth BC
Smart Growth BC is a non-governmental organization devoted to fiscally, socially and environmentally responsible land use and development.
Union of Concerned Scientists
The Union of Concerned Scientists promotes scientifically sound solutions to major environmental problems.
World Resources Institute
The World Resources Institute provides information, ideas, and solutions to global environmental problems such as climate change.
Envirolink Network
The EnviroLink Network is a non-profit organization that maintains a database of thousands of environmental resources and provides Internet services to non-profit organizations.
Climate Solutions
Climate Solutions offers practical solutions to climate change in the Northwest and BC.
Renewable Energy
National Renewable Energy Lab
The U.S. Department of Energy's premier laboratory for renewable energy research & development and a lead lab for energy efficiency R&D.
Alternative Energy Institute
Alternative Energy Institute is a non-profit organization that promotes renewable energy technologies.
American Wind Energy Association
The American Wind Energy Association advocates the development of wind energy as a reliable energy alternative in the United States and around the world.
Canadian Wind Energy Association
The Canadian Wind Energy Association promotes "a robust Canadian wind energy community that makes a significant contribution to safe, reliable, economically and environmentally sustainable energy supply in Canada."
American Solar Energy Society
The American Solar Energy Society promotes the use of all forms of solar energy.
Solar Energy Society of CanadaSolar Energy Society of Canada is a voice for solar and renewable energy in Canada.
Canadian Association for Renewable Energy
The Canadian Association for Renewable Energy is a non-profit association that promotes the feasible applications of renewable energy.
Canadian Solar Association
For more than 25 years, CanSIA members from all segments of the solar industry have joined together to support, promote and advance all forms of solar energy for the benefit of Canadians and the environment.
The Renewable Planet
The Renewable Planet is a free and accessible resource that highlights the number and variety of renewable energy projects from around the world.
Science
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established by WMO and UNEP to assess scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.
Interactive Climate Change Map
Background information on climate change from the CBC, including aninteractive map of Canada featuring climate change impacts.
Woods Hole Research Center
A beginner's guide to understanding the issue of global warming by The Woods Hole Research Center.
New Scientist
Recent articles on Climate Change from the New Scientist.
International Climate and Environmental Research
The Center for International Climate and Environmental Research ? Oslo.
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Research Network
The Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Research Network is a good source of climate change research from the Canadian government.
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
The Goddard Institute for Space Studies is a NASA research institute engaged in studies of global climate change.
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
The Tyndall Centre brings together scientists, economists, engineers and social scientists, who together are working to develop sustainable responses to climate change.
The Hadley Centre for Climate Change Prediction and Research
The Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, which is part of the Met Office, provides a focus in the United Kingdom for the scientific issues associated with climate change.
The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
An international and independent research institute working on questions of climate change, climate impact and sustainable development.
Real Climate
Real Climate is a commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists. We aim to provide a quick response to developing stories and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary.
DeSmogBlog
The mission of this blog is to debunk the climate change deniers, who use suspect science and deceptive public relations techniques to confuse and mislead the public on climate change issues.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Scripps Institution of Oceanography is one of the oldest, largest, and most important centers for marine science research, graduate training, and public service in the world.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research
The National Center for Atmospheric Research in the U.S. provide research, facilities, and services for the atmospheric and Earth sciences community.
Solutions
Pembina Climate Solutions
The Pembina Institute has created hands-on tools that help individuals and businesses reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
Cool Companies
Cool Companies is a project of the Center for Energy & Climate Solutions, and helps businesses, government and individuals reduce greenhouse gas emissions with practical advice, tools and technologies.
Northern Climate Exchange
An independent source of information on climate change in northern Canada.
Sustainable Communities
Cities for Climate Protection
This program of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives offers a framework for local governments to develop a strategic agenda to reduce global warming and air pollution emissions.
Federation of Canadian Municipalities ? Partners for Climate Protection
PCP is a national program of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities that brings municipal governments together to reduce the local production of greenhouse gas emissions.
Sustainable Transportation
Carpool Tool
CarpoolTool is a free service that facilitates carpooling anywhere in Canada.
Detour Publication
This non-profit enterprise specializes in sustainable transportation books and multi-media resources. There is a special 10% discount for David Suzuki Foundation supporters.
Personal Vehicle Program
The Personal Vehicle Program of Natural Resources Canada provides motorists with helpful tips on buying, driving and maintaining their vehicles to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
Trax
TRAX works to promote cycling, walking, carpooling and transit in Nova Scotia through trip reduction programs, public education and outreach.
U.S Environmental Protection Agency
EPA's Green Vehicle Guide gives information about the environmental performance of vehicles. Larger numbers, whether scores or fuel economy, are more environmentally friendly than smaller numbers.
Idle Free Zone
This is Canada's first Web site dedicated to helping Canadians stop unnecessary engine idling in their communities.
Global Warming and Energy: SUV's and Global Warming
When it comes to wasting energy, SUVs are unrivaled. Built with outdated, gas-guzzling technology, many SUVs get just 13 miles per gallon. And the higher gas prices are, the more money they waste.
The SUV Info Link
The SUV Info Link is here to give you more information, so that you can decide what type of vehicle matches your needs.
Diesel Passenger Vehicles and the Environment
A growing interest in diesels for passenger vehicles has increased concern over the public health implications of expanding diesel's market share.
Livable Region Coalition
The Livable Region Coalition (LRC) is a group of British Columbian citizens and sustainable transportation advocates concerned about a proposal to widen the region's primary freeway.
Weather
Meteorological Service of Canada
The Meteorological Service of Canada offers information on extreme weather and climate change.
Canadian Hurricane Centre
Environment Canada's hurricane centre specializes in providing information to Canadians on storms of tropical origin that affect Canada.
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