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(Our thanks to NASA for this item) The number of wildland fires burning in the Arctic is on the rise, according to NASA researchers. Moreover, these blazes are burning larger, hotter, and longer than they did in previous decades.  These trends are closely tied to the region’s rapidly changing climate. The Arctic is warming nearly four…

As we Life Stylers agree, our aim is to live a simple, environmentally friendly life style with justice for all. However, I think people sometimes forget the ‘justice’ part, especially when it comes to immigration. I remember the stories I’ve been told about my ancestors – early and more recent – who were immigrants (mostly…

The Mother Tree Project & Program is part of the UBC’s Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship in British Columbia, Canada, and integrates both science and ancestral Indigenous knowledge.

The LIFE STYLE MOVEMENT is a network of people in this country and abroad who have committed themselves to living more simply. We do this as a step towards improving the conditions of those who have no choice other than to live simply, and also as a direct response to the environmental crisis.    Our…

    The following items were printed in our ‘It is Better to Light a Candle than to Curse the Darkness’ leaflet many years ago, and are still appropriate today.                                        For the sake of PERSONAL INTEGRITY…

Someday soon, our mainstream media is going to blow the gaff on today’s self-appointed tribunes of the people who, often in the very same speech, will inveigh against the ever-rising cost of living (and the scourge of food inflation in particular) while robustly asserting that climate change is a myth—a middle-class obsession that imposes outrageous…

This report communicates the importance of a healthier plant-rich diet with less meat, which will provide many benefits to us and the planet.

Jonathon Porritt enlightens readers and promotes a great book, ‘Here Comes The Sun’, by Bill McKibben, published by W.W.Norton.

“While every other energy technology warrants huge amounts of attention and coverage (and even controversy), the massive potential for tidal energy here in the UK (particularly on the Severn Estuary) goes entirely unremarked, month in, month out. DESNZ ignores it; environmental NGOs won’t touch it with a barge pole; journalists remain indifferent, and there are only a handful of academics who keep raising the flag for it.” Jonathon Porritt

That is how experts are describing the findings of a new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report that says that global temperatures are on track to exceed the most ambitious end of the temperature goal of the Paris Agreement.  To end the climate crisis, we now need the will of all the world’s governments.