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Oil Stains in the Boreal Forest: The Environmental Cost of Canada's Oil Sands - Revised V2.1

Oil Stains in the Boreal Forest: The Environmental Cost of Canada's Oil Sands - Revised V2.1Oil Stains in the Boreal Forest: The Environmental Cost of Canada's Oil Sands - Revised V2.1 (e-book)

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Canada’s oil sands are the world’s largest industrial project. Some of the environmental impacts can also be seen from space but many more are invisible and unacknowledged in their entirety until now. A leading international environmental journalist, Leahy provides a fast, factual overview of the incredible environmental impacts of making more than one million barrels of oil a day out of hundreds of millions on tons of tarry sand. Leading scientific and environmental experts along with industry officials are interviewed to provide the full story. -- REVISED V2.1 includes pictures, hyperlinks, bonus chart on The Real Cost of Tank of Oil Sands Gas -- Full-color, 8 1/2 x 11" 30 pages (14 mb pdf download)
Greening Stewardship: How Museums Can Help Create a Sustainable Culture

Greening Stewardship: How Museums Can Help Create a Sustainable CultureGreening Stewardship: How Museums Can Help Create a Sustainable Culture (e-book)

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The challenge of creating a sustainable culture is a major opportunity for museums, art galleries and other cultural institutions. This six-page article examines how some of North America’s leading museums and galleries including Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium, Ottawa’s Canadian War Museum, New Jersey’s Liberty Science Center and many others are meeting this challenge. “All cultural institutions ought to be leaders and intelligent commentators on social and environmental issues.” — Former CEO of the Glenbow Museum. – includes examples from large and small institutions about programming, community outreach, green buildings and LEED standards. -- Originally published in muse magazine 2003.
Steve's Hurricane Handbook 2008

Steve's Hurricane Handbook 2008Steve's Hurricane Handbook 2008 (e-book)

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Living with Global Warming: A selection of the 'best bits' from four years of articles about the scientific evidence between hurricanes and global warming. Originally published by the world's sixth largest news wire the Inter Press News Service. "The threat hurricanes pose has to taken more seriously." -- Kerry Emanuel, a climatologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Arranged chronologically, the scientific story about hurricanes and climate change becomes increasingly evident. Colour, 25 pages.

Stephen Leahy, International Environmental Journalist

  • Four Degrees of Devastation

    2009 Nov 09

    By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 9 (IPS) The prospect of a four-degree Celsius rise in global average temperatures in 50 years is alarming – but not alarmist, climate scientists now believe. Eighteen months ago, no one dared imagine humanity pushing the climate beyond an additional two degrees C of heating, but rising carbon emissions and inability [...]

  • Lavish US Lobbying Pushes Nuclear Energy — Taxpayers on the hook for 360 billion to 1.6 trillion dollars (again)

    2009 Oct 27

    By Stephen Leahy* BERLIN, Jul 31 (IPS) Climate change and the resulting need for low-carbon energy sources is driving the current interest in nuclear energy despite the industry’s near universal legacy of staggering cost-overruns, technical difficulties and dependence on enormous government subsidies. Government interest in new nuclear energy plants seems far more political than practical or economic in [...]

  • Out of the Forest and Into the Oven — Millions of Trees Are Being Burned for “Green Energy”

    2009 Oct 26

    By Stephen Leahy* “Europe is going to cook the world’s tropical forests to fight climate change; it’s crazy” UXBRIDGE, Canada, Sep 24 (Tierramérica) Millions of trees, especially from the developing countries of the South, are being shipped to Europe and burned in giant furnaces to meet “green energy” requirements that are supposed to combat climate change. In [...]

  • Carbon Emissions Can Be Reduced 80% by 2020 – Lester Brown has a plan and he’s not crazy

    2009 Oct 22

    Stephen Leahy interviews LESTER BROWN, founder of the Earth Policy Institute UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 7 (IPS) Lester Brown says his views sometimes appear extreme – because the mainstream media largely doesn’t understand the urgency and challenges in avoiding catastrophic climate change. The founder and president of the Washington-based Earth Policy Institute, he is also considered by many to [...]

  • G8 Failure to Launch on Potential Climate Catastrophe

    2009 Oct 18

    Analysis by Stephen Leahy BERLIN, Jul 13 (IPS) The G8’s failure to make meaningful commitments on climate last week pushes the world ever closer to global climate catastrophe, experts warn. Without commitments to take action, there is little comfort in G8 countries’ agreement to keep overall global warming below 2.0 degrees Celsius. “If they took the 2.0-degree commitment [...]

  • Global Day of Action Against Monsanto

    2009 Oct 16

    Canadians are calling and writing the Minister of Health to ask that she immediately halt the introduction of Monsanto’s new eight-trait GM (genetically modified) corn called “SmartStax” because it was not assessed for safety by Health Canada. “SmartStax” corn was authorized this summer by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for planting next year but was not [...]

  • Food Supply In Deep Trouble – Agriculture Most Vulnerable to Climate Change

    2009 Oct 13

    By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 2 (IPS) Rocketing food prices and hundreds of millions more starving people will be part of humanity’s grim future without concerted action on climate change and new investments in agriculture, experts reported this week. The current devastating drought in East Africa, where millions of people are on the brink of starvation, [...]
STEPHEN LEAHY BRIEF BIO I've been a freelance environmental journalist for the past 12 years. My writing has been published in dozens of publications around the world including New Scientist, The London Sunday Times, Maclean’s Magazine, The Toronto Star, Wired News, Audubon, BBC Wildlife, and Canadian Geographic. I am the science and environment correspondent for Inter Press Service News Agency (IPS), a wire service headquartered in Rome that covers global issues, and its Latin American affiliate, Tierramerica, located in Mexico City. I have also given a number of talks/presentations on a variety of subjects related to my work. A member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, I am based outside of Toronto, Canada, and can be reached at writersteve AT gmail. com (no spaces) or at my website.
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