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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

  • Keeping Wetlands from Becoming Wastelands

    2010 Feb 05

    By Stephen Leahy VICTORIA, Seychelles, Feb 5, 2010 IPS Swamps, marshes and other wetlands are beginning to be recognised as a countrys green jewels, even in a tropical paradise like Mahé Island here in the Seychelles, with its stunning beaches and dramatic granite outcrops. “Wetlands are one of the worlds richest ecosystems on the planet,” said Joel Morgan, [...]

  • Helping Haiti – What You Can Do

    2010 Jan 15

    [When I wrote about the 4 hurricanes that pounded Haiti over 2 months in 2008, experts said things couldn't get any worse....  There was emergency aid in 2008, people were fed but little was done in the months after the storms to help Haiti up off its knees, to be able to feed itself. This [...]

  • What if our air was 30% more acidic like the Oceans? May be 120% more acidic by 2060

    2010 Jan 11

    [2°C is a death sentence for corals scientists agree due to ocean acidification and bleaching resulting from emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. However the developed nations of the world have set 2 degrees C as the climate stabilization target not that any of them have figured out how to reach [...]

  • Small Farmers Can Cool the World – Industrial Ag Emits Almost 50% of ALL Carbon – Study

    2010 Jan 07

    [Small farmers can cool and feed the world according to members of Via Campesina. They may be right. After all industrial food production is about making profits not feeding the world nor is it yet concerned about carbon emissions. Shockingly this study DOES NOT include methane emissions from livestock, so the impact of big [...]

  • Honduras Hit Hardest by Extreme Weather From Global Warming – experts say

    2010 Jan 06

    [ Climate change has already resulted in trillions of dollars of losses due to extreme weather events over the past two decades. While no single hurricane, flood or drought can be directly attributed to global warming, one of the most solid findings of climate science is that extreme weather events will increase dramatically as a [...]

  • “We Are a Harbinger of What Is to Come” – Global Warming is Already Affecting Millions – Video

    2010 Jan 05

    [Those living closest to the land - small farmers, pastoralists, indigenous peoples -- are already suffering from impacts of climate change. They have made a series of short videos to show people like you and me who are insulated from these impacts how our emissions of carbon are changing the world. This is both a [...]

  • Is Privatizing Air & Water Only Way to Save the Planet? — Copenhagen Talks

    2009 Dec 19

    By Stephen Leahy* COPENHAGEN, Dec 17 (Tierramérica) In the last two years, the conclusion among decision-makers has been that the only way to solve the climate crisis is to turn carbon into a commodity and privatise the atmosphere. Similar market-based solutions will be used to “solve” the growing water crisis, warned experts at the Klimaforum09, a parallel [...]
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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