Green RIghts Film

GreenRights is about you and your body – and your rights. It's a doc, new music, a book, and web talks with experts. It's also about the future of our planet.

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Peter Wood, environmental rights chief at the David Suzuki Foundation, writes an excellent article on why environmental rights are human rights. https://t.co/uI7BLjFBdm

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Green Rights screening on Sunday in Victoria with the remarkable Franny and Rupert Yakeleshek -- and I'll be Skyping in for the Q&A.
When: Sunday, October 21, 2018, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Where: 4 Corners Community Collective, 1508 Haultain Street, Victoria

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This is madness. If we're going to drill in these stormy waters, at these impossible depths, we should be taking every imaginable precaution. This federal government is led by a Harper with dimples, to appropriate a rather good recent phrase. https://t.co/Gc8rFszbl2

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I'm looking forward to screening the Green Rights film tomorrow night at the McConnell Library in Sydney, NS at 6:30. I'll conduct a Q&A afterwards.

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Polly Higgins and her team are mounting a pop-up art exhibition in Tetbury, Gloucester, to promote Mission Lifeforce: Realigning Law to Protect the Earth. This arresting work by sculptor Katy Dunne is part of that exhibition. https://t.co/Mq7r4DMwE7

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Why the McNeil government in Nova Scotia is playing with fire. Strong unions and fair play are essential to settling workplace disputes, and even if the unions go away, the conflict won't. https://t.co/tzYgJMD9aj

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Another story on the Our Children's Trust lawsuit. https://t.co/5Da47RKmXd And check out this remarkable young man who is among the plaintiffs: https://t.co/2VTd51k3yg

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More good news, just breaking: Trump's challenge to the Our Children's Trust climate change lawsuit is dismissed by the courts. The trial will go ahead, joining similar trials in Columbia, Portugal and elsewhere. Yes!! https://t.co/cAfch1gNSx

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Inter American Court of Human Rights rules that human beings have a right to a healthy environment -- even when the issue reaches beyond national borders. Yes! https://t.co/ECMGo3M8Iy

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Trenchant piece by digital journalism pioneers Erin Millar and Ian Gill of Discourse Media on how the feds might best spend the $50 million they propose to invest in rejuvenating journalism, especially local journalism. https://t.co/kvGtjxWfJh

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This excellent article on The Green Interview has just been released from the paywall. You can read it now without having to subscribe to The Cape Breton Spectator - but if you're in NS, please consider subscribing. It's a fine little online paper. https://t.co/tZzgTTQSQh

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This is really shocking, but it's true: delusional accounting leads us to think we're making progress when we're actually losing wealth. I would love to do a film about this! https://t.co/VlAKHBeTT6

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Why Kinder Morgan and Keystone XL are doomed, from the indispensable source, The Energy Mix. (If you don't subscribe, you should take a look.) Rachel Notley, I love you, but climb down: your horse is galloping straight to the cliff. https://t.co/56bPVi0KHm

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Canadians are acting responsibly about climate change -- but it won't matter if we don't rein in the tar sands. But the market may do that for us. The world's appetite for high-carbon, high-cost, low-quality oil is shrinking rapidly. https://t.co/9eRTlgJGCS

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New book on the Site C dam edited by Wendy Holm, published by Lorimer, in bookstore early April -- and I have the pleasure of having a chapter on environmental rights included in it.

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If I were with Cape d'Or or Sustainable Blue I'd be ready to murder the Minister. Those two produce safe, sustainable salmon, and they're getting smeared. Who the hell is the Minister protecting, and why? https://t.co/typL99wT40

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Superb article on https://t.co/JmAuqaEsd5 in the spunky, cheeky Cape Breton Spectator. It's behind the paywall for the next week, but accessible now if you subscribe for $10/month. If Cape Breton or TGI interests you, why not pony up and read it now? https://t.co/x2YADsBm34

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Teachers strike, emergency rooms close: we don't (sob) have the funds for health and education. Well, suppose we stopped giving our money to Big Oil, which hardly needs it? https://t.co/QhkRhsKyXe

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Thoughtful and intelligent full-scale review of Warrior Lawyers by esteemed environmental journalist Chris Wood. Just the kind of discussion an author hopes to provoke. The Antigonish Review doesn't have it online, so I posted it here: https://t.co/avsJI24quz

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Imagining 2030 in Nova Scotia if we really used our Environmental Goals and Sustainable Prosperity Act and reduced our carbon footprint. Great speakers on the most important questions. Wish I could attend!