Ian Stephen

CodeBlueBC Our waters need your voice. Help make watershed security a priority in 2024.

Pretty slick letter writing tool by Code Blue, calling on the province to secure BC's freshwater future.

www.codebluebc.ca

Finding the ‘cold’ in the Coldwater River | Pacific Salmon Foundation What connects British Columbia’s lush west coast to the arid, dry Nicola Valley in the Southern Interior? Look no further than the Pacific salmon migration. As salmon travel from the coast into the Ni...

"To locate the thermal refuges, they used a drone equipped with a thermal camera to produce a map of the river.

The researchers then conducted snorkel surveys at identified sites."

psf.ca/blog/finding...

BC Electoral Reform Committee: 93% support for proportional representation in public consultation 93% of those who participated in the public consultation of the BC Electoral Reform Committee with an opinion on the voting system recommended proportional representation.

www.fairvote.ca/06/10/2025/b...

New York City is Getting a Dutch-Style Bicycle Hub and it's a Game Changer In Sunset Park, Brooklyn, a new facility promises to redefine what bike commuting can look like in New York with the opening of the Hub, by Oonee.

New York City is Getting a Dutch-Style Bicycle Hub and it’s a Game Changer.
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YouTube video by Organizing for Change IPA/Bill 15 Phase One Engagement Guidance

Hi friends

BC is making lots of changes re environmental protections. This webinar and guide covers the most urgent. Deadline for public comment is 4:00 PM PST tomorrow, September 30.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsuB...

For upcoming public consultations I'll try to put useful info at evenstephen.ca

If you've got National Day for Truth and Reconciliation off, maybe use it to help protect the quality of air, land, & water our children & grandchildren will live with, & tell BC that UNDRIP and free, prior, and informed consent of First Nations is not optional.

Deadline Sept 30, at 4:00pm PST.

#974 We Spied on the Spies Who Spy on Activists Of all the private intelligence firms in the English-language world, there appears to be just one whose speciality is tracking activists. And it has a branch office in Calgary.

Super interesting where this gets to.

www.canadaland.com/podcast/974-...

This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS) - Science Under Siege YouTube video by This Week in Science (TWIS)

Worth a listen. Long intro though. Might want to skip ahead 4 minutes or so.

www.youtube.com/live/ILJEfm8...

Ottawa ends zero-interest loan program for green home renovations up to $40,000 “I don’t know what’s going to be left of (Ottawa’s) climate agenda,” said Brendan Haley, senior director of policy strategy at Efficiency Canada.

"First Ottawa ended green renovation grants. Then they axed EV rebates. The federal government later cancelled the carbon tax. After that, Prime Minister Mark Carney suspended the EV sales mandate. Now he’s cutting off zero-interest loans for green renovations."

www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change - Nature Climate Change | Howard Frumkin This brief, beautifully written paper updates on attribution studies that clarify the links between climate change and health damage—in terms of deaths from such causes as heat and infectious disease,...

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Study shows cyclists are more concerned about the common good than drivers Researchers have shed light on a remarkable finding: cyclists exhibit a greater commitment to the common good compared to drivers

This study illuminates the undeniable impact of cycling on fostering a stronger, more caring society.
momentummag.com/cyclists-com...

Climate change kills, Spanish PM tells deniers at launch of plan to tackle crisis Pedro Sánchez says country’s deadly August wildfires show society needs to mobilise and take immediate action

New from @theguardian.com: Climate change kills, Spanish PM tells deniers at launch of plan to tackle crisis.

“If we don’t want to bequeath our children a Spain that’s grey from fire and flames, or a Spain that’s brown from floods, then we need a Spain that’s greener.”

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IC Launches “Hotspots” with Professors and Students to Spotlight Indigenous Frontlines of Climate Change – Intercontinental Cry Intercontinental Cry (IC) Magazine today announces the launch of Hotspots, a new journalistic series created in partnership with Cherokee Professor Jeff Corntas

"critical intersections of climate change, development, and Indigenous self-determination"

icmagazine.org/ic-launches-...

#heatwaves #carbonmajors #nature | Sonia I. Seneviratne | 41 comments Hot off the press: We can provide for the first time a systematic attribution of recent #heatwaves to the emissions of #carbonmajors. Essential new #Nature article coordinated by Yann Quilcaille at ET...

Important work

www.linkedin.com/posts/sonia-...

Home owner points toward geohazard resulting from 2021 atmospheric river.

Senior governments adding fuel to the fire with plans to fast track and fund fossil fuel projects should at least step up when climate impacts hit. Costs of retreat where necessary can quickly overwhelm the resources of local governments and communities, never mind individual property owners.

Coquihalla River today

By changing our diets now, we can avoid the food chaos that climate change is bringing By choosing to transform how we grow food and what we eat – rather than letting climate change dictate the pace of change – we have so much to gain.

Just saying…

theconversation.com/by-changing-...

After a decade of death, Canadian scientists say they've found the sea star killer | Flipboard CBC News - Scientists say they have found the cause behind the disease that turns vibrant, 24-armed sea stars into puddles of goo. Melanie Prentice, a research …

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After nearly 100 years, adult winter-run Chinook salmon seen in California river State’s fish and wildlife department posted a video showing an adult female guarding a nest of eggs

“So it’s generations and generations of eggs and salmon who don’t have those genes anymore to be wild.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

No, but please, tell me more about how ai is amazing and should be used by everyone, while it destroys a foot ball field of clean water per stupid request and prompt

Wasp nest inside the lock box on a seacan. Fortunately not aggressive wasps.

Inside the lock box on the seacan at work where we keep tools and stuff. Now have to ask permission every time I need something.

People are dying because the news & Government didn’t tell the story of ever increasing climate risk.

Pass it on.

These 3 words used in an app helped police find an Ontario woman who was lost in the woods | CBC News Speedboat, overdid, cameos: Those three words were used by special navigation technology to help Waterloo regional police find a woman who was lost at night on a Cambridge, Ont., trail. Now, police ar...

I'm sure @oplopanax.ca has thoughts www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

YouTube video by BBC World Service Life at 50°C: Water Crisis - The Battle of Doongmabulla Springs | BBC World Service Documentaries

Doc just out by BBC. Parallels to happenings in Canada are all through this.

youtu.be/uhgYLexHz6w?...

Was loving this today,
until the lightning chased me away.

Photo of a green frog sitting on a road

Weléx, green frog.

This one sat on the road as I drove by. Sat there as I backed up. Sat while I took pictures. Then finally hopped off into the bush when I said, "You have to get off the road. It's not safe here."

Photo of book cover, titled "Travels up the Creek, a biologist's search for a paddle."

Niece pointed out this book. From the Introduction,

"It will be the vigilance and persistence of believers -- people who will not accept the premise that we can't protect and restore populations of imperilled species and ensure others do not become imperilled."

I think I'm going to like this book.

Save the Country by Burning the Planet Canada's False National "Unity" Debate

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Image of elderly man with a walker in the care of a nurse. Man says "I can remember when there weren't communities on fire every summer." Nurse smiling says "Sure grandpa, let's get you to bed."

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