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Author Archives: Justin McElroy

EnviroSphere | Climate Deniers melt away

I was at a pretty cool protest on Cap­itol Hill a few days ago: As the above 1,300 pound cli­mate den­ier sculp­ture melted away in front of the Cap­itol build­ing, speak­ers spoke of the need to push for a com­pre­hens­ive science-based cli­mate bill for the world’s second largest CO2 emit­ter. One of the speak­ers, Ethan […]

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EnviroSphere | Voice of the gulf

Have you seen the video of Drew Landry, a craw­fish­er­man in the Gulf , at the White House Oil Spill Com­mis­sion Meet­ing last Monday? The video of Drew singing about his con­cerns for the people of the gulf, the twis­ted actions of BP, and the sad state of  his sur­round­ings is pick­ing up speed in […]

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EnviroSphere | TEDxers talk fossil fuels and beyond

As I men­tioned in my last post, I got an oppor­tun­ity to volun­teer at TEDxOilSpill here in Wash­ing­ton, DC. The event was excep­tional, well put together—especially con­sid­er­ing how quickly it was organ­ized— and had a ser­i­ously impress­ive speaker list. You can see all the talks here. I think the best part of the TEDx conference […]

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EnviroSphere | TEDxOilSpill

If you see this in time, are fol­low­ing the BP atro­city, and love TED, you might want to check out TEDxOilSpill. It’ll be stream­ing live from Wash­ing­ton, DC, tomor­row, June 28, start­ing at 6AM PST! A glimpse of the line-up: Phil­lipe Cous­teau, founder of EarthEcho Inter­na­tional, and son of Renais­sance man Jacques Costeau; Sylvia Earle, […]

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G20 protest erupts in violence

Black bloc being blamed for riot­ing and van­dal­ism in down­town Toronto

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A Round-by-Round Breakdown of the UBC Insiders/Ubyssey Presidential Debate

Before the debate begun, Nat­alie had man­aged to rack up a bunch of endorse­ments from media out­lets. Yet Bijan has had the lar­ger face­book group, the smoother cam­paign, and hadn’t been attacked for his per­ceived weak­nesses on tuition\UBC rela­tions. Would there be clash? Would one can­did­ate stick out? The esteemed Alex Lougheed and I were […]

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