Excerpts from remarks made to the Living City Foundation Board by Anthony Ketchum, Chair, 6th October 2010 Before long, our grandchildren will look back at what our generation has done (or not done) and they may be amazed at what they discover. By now, we know the grim statistics. Climate change is a matter of … Read more
The difficulty with climate change is that its effects are masked by the variations in the weather that have a more immediate impact on our lives. Trying to get to the bottom of climate change often requires interpretation of complicated graphs of temperature variations, many of which make assumptions that are reasonable to the scientist(s) … Read more
October 15, 2010, is Blog Action Day. The world’s bloggers are uniting by each posting today on a set topic of global relevance. This year, the topic is water. Water can devastate through abundance and through scarcity. The millions of families who lost their homes and loved ones in the recent floods that swept across Pakistan, and … Read more
October 10, 2010 was the Global Work Party: A Day To Celebrate Climate Solutions, coordinated by www.350.org. Over 7,000 communities in 188 countries united by participating in locally-organized, grassroots climate change projects. ForOurGrandchildren was amongst them (see the below post to learn more about our simple, very accessible project). Please click the image below to … Read more
The below is a letter from Anthony Ketchum, Mary Ketchum, and Sandi Trillo to local Torontonians. This is an example of the type of demonstrations that ForOurGrandchildren endorse in support of the powerful 10/10/10 initiative of 350.org. Visit their website now, or read on for full details, and please submit your comments for actions you would … Read more
9/15/2010, University of Toronto: A Conversation with Dr. James Hansen, Naomi Klein & Clayton Thomas-Muller On September 15, 2010, several of the leading minds on climate justice issues treated the Toronto public to a free event at which they shared their insights. The Science of Climate Change, by Dr. James Hansen Held at the MacMillan … Read more
The UN Commission on Trade and Development and the UN Economic Commission for Europe recently circulated a study on climate change (the ECE study) that in its opening paragraphs makes this emphatic statement: “Compelling scientific evidence and a better understanding of the potential economic impacts of climate change have moved the issue to the forefront … Read more
On June 25th next Torontonians may as well stay home and watch the World Soccer Championships (which they might well have watched at work!) On that day the central Toronto financial district is shuttered and barred as a security measure protecting delegates to the G8/20 Summits from environmental protesters, amongst others. A coalition of North American … Read more
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