PostedMar 10, 2025 | Arts & Culture, book review, climate change, energy
Book Reviews by Ross Thrasher Cautionary tales about the oil industry and its impact on modern society have a 100-year lineage. Here are brief summaries of a historical petro-fiction classic and an impressive recent entry in the genre. Oil!, by Upton Sinclair....
PostedJan 24, 2025 | Arts & Culture, book review, climate change, sustainability
Brief Reviews by Ross Thrasher Climate Hope: Stories of Action in an Age of Global Crisis, by David Geselbracht. Douglas & McIntyre, 2024. This is a personal account from a BC-based environmental journalist and lawyer. Geselbracht relates his interviews and...
PostedJan 21, 2025 | Arts & Culture, book review, opinion, sustainability
By Arden Henley Whether it is in BC where a right-wing populist party just about overturned the governing centre-left, New Democratic Party, in France where Marine Le Pen’s right-wing party recently ousted the Prime Minister, or the United States where Donald Trump...
PostedJan 12, 2025 | Arts & Culture, climate change, Youth
Rootbound is a gripping young adult climate fantasy novel bursting with hope, heart, adventure, and mystery (think Greta Thunberg x Percy Jackson). After her beloved sister Aspen disappears during a climate protest, seventeen-year-old Mira Bracken refuses to accept...
PostedDec 30, 2024 | Arts & Culture, climate change, community, Education, international news, sustainability, Youth
GTEC is delighted to share the press release below from GTEC’s US partner in New York. Congratulations to The Climate Museum of New York in finding a permanent home. MEDIA CONTACT: Saskia Randle, srandle@climatemuseum.org The Climate Museum Secures Permanent...
PostedDec 26, 2024 | Arts & Culture, book review, climate change, sustainability
Risky Business: The Future of Fossil Fuel Capitalism Book Review by Ross Thrasher Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown, by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton. Verso, 2024. The definition of the term overshoot is to go past (a point) unintentionally,...
