Month: March 2008

Book Nook The following books may be of interest to Science for Peace members. Ashford, Mary-Wynne and Dauncey Guy. Enough Blood Shed: 101 Solutions to Violence, Terror and War. New … Read more Book Nook

Once more, fabled ancient Alexandria has a magnificent library. It’s more than a library – it is home to six (!) institutes, permanent and temporary exhibit space, a cinesphere, a … Read more International Peace Bureau in Alexandria, Egypt

Global Summit for a Nuclear Weapon-Free World London, February 16-17 2008 To commemorate the first CND meetings and Easter March to Aldermaston in 1958 the UK’s Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament … Read more UK CND goes mainstream – Golden Anniversary Meeting

Both Russia and the United States have been undergoing presidential electoral campaigns of quite different forms. Will there be any significant change in the governance of the two countries? The … Read more What the Presidential Candidates Say – and Don't Say

At the end of a lecture to journalism students I.F.Stone always left them with two words of advice that they should never forget: “Governments Lie!” A recent promotional piece sent … Read more Governments Lie

Bruce Cox, national director of Greenpeace, recently spoke at an Amnesty International conference in Toronto about the reversal in the meaning of “reality” in establishment discourse in that claims of … Read more Gaza — Humanitarian Emergency and the Threat of Nuclear War

Since October, a Science for Peace committee has been conducting monthly meetings in a Chinese restaurant to study the pros and cons of a carbon tax. Our goal, from the … Read more The Science for Peace Carbon Tax Committee

Is homo sapiens in trouble? The Global Footprint Network1,2 tells us that our ecological footprint is 1.4 times bigger than the ecologically productive area our planet has to offer and … Read more Step One: Reducing the Ecological Footprint by Changing Technology

Science for Peace, through its Global Issues Project has become the 55th partner of Zerofootprint Toronto. On 26 February, Zerofootprint’s Community Partner Program held an official launch, with Toronto’s Mayor … Read more Zerofootprint's Emissions Calculator Launched in Toronto – 26 February 2008

Climate change is now becoming widely recogClimate change is now becoming widely recognized as a world emergency. It is not surprising, therefore, that the press in Canada gave prominence on … Read more Climate Change and Carbon Taxes