Shuswap Climate Action Society

09/04/2026

The transition to EVs is happening and China is at the centre of it. Read this blog from Jan Rosenow.

From Norway to Nepal, current sales reveal a transition far further along than the stock on the road suggests.

09/03/2026

While the number of individual wildfire starts each year has not necessarily increased, the intensity, duration, and total area burned by wildfires in British Columbia are significantly higher and more extreme now than in the previous six. Scientific research confirms this. As we absorb the costs of these disasters, the fossil fuel industry is making record profits. Is there any question who should be accountable?

Wildfire is a public cost of climate change yet there's no provincial acknowledgment they're exacerbated by domestic fossil fuel production

09/03/2026

This is the recording of an informative panel discussion about wildfire, how to protect our communities in the face of increasingly ferocious wildfires that are threatening the safety and health of our communities, and driving up insurance premiums and costs to rebuild. The speakers included John Vaillant, author of Fire Weather,
Kelsey Winter, Executive Director of the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre and Carly Phillips, a Senior Scientist and leading expert in fossil fuel accountability from Union of Concerned Scientists.

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08/30/2026

Many who have heard of Mark Carney's influential 2015 speech The Tragedy of the Horizon, or read his book Value(s) must be wondering where did that Mark Carney go? We are also wondering. We offer Andrew Gage's take of this, a lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law.

In 2015, when Mark Carney was Governor of the Bank of England, and had not yet ascended to the role of Canada’s Prime Minister, he gave a massively influential speech to insurance companies in which he warned that climate change, caused by the burning of fossil fuels, could affect financial stabil...

08/30/2026

Ever wonder if it's better for the environment to continue driving your gas powered car, or switch to an electric vehicle. Turns out that getting rid of your gas car sooner and purchasing an EV is the winner for the planet!

New research suggest that swapping your internal combustion engine for an EV is almost always the greener choice.

08/28/2026

This article in The Guardian profiles a recent study that showed substantial health benefits for people with asthma by removing the gas stove in your home.

Team in Ohio finds swapping to electric has ‘very large’ impact, despite study being scaled back by Trump cuts

08/28/2026

There is no question that the cost of addressing climate change will be far less costly than delaying action. Our economic and environmental health and wellbeing depend on us tackling the climate crisis. Together we can do this!

Mounting evidence shows taking action now will be far cheaper than delaying it, say economic and sustainability experts in Canada and the UK.

08/27/2026

Disposing of chewing gum carelessly has many potentially negative impacts for the environment, including for critters. Read on!

If you live anywhere near people and sidewalks, you’ve probably seen pieces of old chewing gum stuck to the pavement. And whether you use chewing gum or not, it’s obvious that there’s a problem when 80% to 90% of chewing gum isn’t disposed of properly. So, what the heck happens to that gum s...

08/27/2026

Jonathan Foley, Ph.D., is a climate researcher, author and Executive Director of Project Drawdown. Here he gives a short TED Talk about solutions that everyone, including our elected leaders could learn a lot from! His message, we should use science to prioritise solutions that make a difference and implement them NOW!

When it comes to climate solutions, "now is better than new, and time is more important than tech," says scientist Jonathan Foley. He presents a six-part framework to more efficiently address climate change, from better aligning capital with carbon to utilizing affordable solutions that are ready to...

08/25/2026

One hundred and seventy years ago, this brilliant woman was the first scientist to identify the insulating effect of certain gases and to posit that therefore rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels could increase atmospheric temperature and affect climate, a phenomenon now referred to as the greenhouse effect. https://www.instagram.com/p/DVekf0pDKHn/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsi=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==