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GTEC Reader Volume 5 – Issue 2

Editor’s Introduction – Volume 5 Issue #2
GTEC Reader - Volume 5 - Issue 2
December 2024
Editor’s Introduction – Volume 5 Issue #2
What Happened & Did Not Happen at COP29
GTEC Reader - Volume 5 - Issue 2
December 2024
What Happened & Did Not Happen at COP29
Public Opinion Shifts on Climate Change
GTEC Reader - Volume 5 - Issue 2
December 2024
Public Opinion Shifts on Climate Change
Did We Hear Helene’s Message?
GTEC Reader - Volume 5 - Issue 2
December 2024
Did We Hear Helene’s Message?
A Grassroots Voice for Healthier Neighbourhoods
GTEC Reader - Volume 5 - Issue 2
December 2024
A Grassroots Voice for Healthier Neighbourhoods
Making a Difference: Climate Action by Students and Teachers
GTEC Reader - Volume 5 - Issue 2
December 2024
Making a Difference: Climate Action by Students and Teachers
 A Seismic Shift in the Zeitgeist: Implications for Responding to the Climate Crisis
GTEC Reader - Volume 5 - Issue 2
December 2024
 A Seismic Shift in the Zeitgeist: Implications for Responding to the Climate Crisis
RECENT CLIMATE FICTION
GTEC Reader - Volume 5 - Issue 2
December 2024
RECENT CLIMATE FICTION
Paint | Line | Word
GTEC Reader - Volume 5 - Issue 2
December 2024
Paint | Line | Word
Our Contributors – Volume 5 Issue 2
GTEC Reader - Volume 5 - Issue 2
December 2024
Our Contributors – Volume 5 Issue 2
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Editor’s Introduction – Volume 5 Issue #2

by Arden Henley As I note in the Seismic Shift article in this issue times are changing. It is clear that climate change is by no means at the top of the socio-political agenda even though 2024 will be the warmest year on the planet since pre-industrial times. Climate change induced extreme weather events and […]

What Happened & Did Not Happen at COP29

by Arden Henley The over 65,000 registrants from around the world are safely at home after attending COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. On the verge of collapse as it neared its conclusion on November 22nd negotiators finally agreed on a new climate finance target of US$300 billion a year by 2035 up US$100 billion from the […]

Public Opinion Shifts on Climate Change

by Bill Stovin Environmentalists around the world are challenged on many political fronts these days as the United Nations annual climate gabfest, COP29, drones on with 70,000 registrants. In the U.S., Americans have elected a leader bent on boosting the fossil fuel industry and repealing climate regulations. And in Canada, conservative political forces are on […]

Did We Hear Helene’s Message?

by C.S. Beamer In my neck of the woods in the small mountain town of Hendersonville, North Carolina, they’re calling Hurricane Helene a 500 year event. Some say a 1000 year event. The problem is that all around the country I keep hearing of these supposedly rare storms, but they aren’t feeling so rare anymore. […]

A Grassroots Voice for Healthier Neighbourhoods

by Bill Stovin “There had never been anything so drastic as the heat dome of 2021. Afterwards, I started to hear that a lot of the calls that were made were coming from southeast Vancouver, a lot of calls to ambulances.” It took time to determine its full impact but Jeannie Furmanek would learn that […]

Making a Difference: Climate Action by Students and Teachers

by Bill Stovin “I felt like I could take initiative and make an impact.  Even if it was just in the school, I can still make a difference in my community.”                                                                                         Vancouver High School Student Nearly 2,000 Vancouver high school students participated in a climate justice program aimed at empowering youth (12 to 18 […]

 A Seismic Shift in the Zeitgeist: Implications for Responding to the Climate Crisis

by Arden Henley There were harbingers of what was to come. The polls have been increasingly indicating Canadians’ preference for a right of centre, conservative party. In BC, a far right political party emerged, seemingly out of the blue, led by someone who had been ejected from his previously right centrist party for his climate […]

RECENT CLIMATE FICTION

Fourth in a SeriesBrief Book Reviews by Ross Thrasher The following quotation captures the philosophy that animates this series of eco-fiction reviews: “Fiction is a form of entertainment, but it is also a way of examining the world.  Stories help us derive meaning from senseless or banal events…. If we are going to transform our […]

Paint | Line | Word

Do You See What I See? By Diane de Camps Meschino This painting emanated from my inner turmoil while visiting Hornby Island, where friends graciously hosted my husband and I when our hiking trip was prevented by a wild fire developing on Vancouver Island. The voice of Google Maps broke through our musical accompaniment warning […]

Our Contributors – Volume 5 Issue 2

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