December 5, 2017: “Change for Climate” Edmonton

There is an interesting new commercial circulating as part of the “Change for Climate” campaign, organized by the City of Edmonton. Check it out here: https://changeforclimate.ca/ As a scholar of media, I couldn’t help but notice that the voice over…

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November 20, 2017: Reporting (for) Action

Today, the radio and news reports are full of incongruities. In the headlines are the following stories: Edward Stuzik’s new book Firestorm: How Wildfire will Shape our Future apparently does link the Fort McMurray fires of 2016 to climate change and…

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November 13, 2017: Women and the Car

In yesterday’s post, I talked tangentially about auto-mobility. It got me to thinking about the role that the automobile has played in Western women’s lives, and the role it continues to play. If you Google ‘women and cars’ you get…

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November 12, 2017: Eating, Consumption, and Energy Transition

I’m still thinking about the argument made by  Mercy for Animals around going veg because it is less carbon-intensive than meat eating. That argument is sound. And, there are many other good reasons to become vegetarian or vegan, not the least…

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November 5, 2017: Muskrat Falls

I woke up this morning with a lot of questions rolling around in my head: Why don’t we know more about the protests at Muskrat Falls? Is it really that there isn’t much being reported in the West? If so,…

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