The Happiest Way to Fight Climate Change
If you make joyful changes, other people will follow suit, quickly. This is just one insight from Dunn and Zhao’s new book Leave the Lights On, outlining how so many environmentally friendly choices add joy to life! 😊💚
Happiness is our best weapon to fight climate change
It turns out that even people who don’t hold strong environmental values exhibit mood benefits from taking climate-friendly actions.
Decisions on major projects often ignore cultural and social losses
A more legitimate approach to compensating harms requires moving beyond improved methods toward rethinking the rules that frame the overall decision-making process.
From IRES’s Terre Satterfield & Robin Gregory, and U of Oregon’s Paul Slovic.
Seaweed Farming is Growing in BC. Mind the Risks.
John Driscoll and Edward Gregr, adjunct professors at IRES, say that this form of aquaculture has a lot of benefits but needs new regulations to manage potential environmental threats.
New Decision Framework Helps Chart The Course To Zero Impact Shipping
“Decision support” is a growing academic and professional field, said Simone Philpot, who led the UBC-NRC-Clear Seas research project team as a post-doctoral fellow at IRES.
Canada has recognized its environmental injustice problem, now it must act on it
Canada has finally acknowledged environmental injustice. Now the real work begins.
Manvi Bhalla explains what’s at stake in her new op-ed.
Feds didn’t push carbon price backstop in Alberta in show of co-operation: Dabrusin
Simon Donner responds to Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith signing an agreement on Friday to bring Alberta’s effective carbon price — the market price for credits — to US$130 per tonne by 2040, while the headline price in Alberta would also reach US$100 per tonne by 2027, before rising to US$130 per tonne by 2035.
The legal block on climate action
Colombia’s conference on phasing out fossil fuels signals climate action isn’t just slowed by politics — it’s blocked by profit-protecting legal systems.
Dr. David Boyd explores the global consequences.