While combing through some old books on a remote bookshelf recently I came across one that I had given to my father for Christmas 40 years ago. It contained New Yorker cartoons from 1925 to 1975. I hadn’t looked at it since our last move six years ago. I plunked down by the fire and browsed …
At 4RG we have been wondering about how to communicate with people who are not already engaged in the climate change issue. This short animated video provides an idea – don’t talk, listen. It’s hard, but bombarding people with facts doesn’t change minds. Ask questions and listen. We hope that this approach can help nudge people …
OK, here we go, the Ontario Government is asking for our input so that they can create a made in Ontario climate change action plan. The deadline is November 16th. I expect that you are thinking, as I am, that it won’t make any difference, and that’s sort of right. It probably doesn’t matter what …
This newspaper clipping came across my inbox last week. Here’s what the finder wrote about it. Hey, I thought you might like this little article on global warming that I found in an old Millbrook newspaper (in a big box of stuff I got at an auction a while ago). It’s from September of 1954, …
A young student from Algonquin College accompanied a small group from Citizens Climate Lobby to talk with an MP in his office on Parliament Hill last week. During the cordial conversation the MP at one point turned to the student and said basically – we aren’t going to set policy to appeal to you, you …