Month: April 2010

Dauncey, Guy. The Climate Challenge. New Society Publishers. ‘We can reduce our carbon footprint to almost zero by 2040’ Ellsberg, Daniel. Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. Penguin Books. 2002 (Also a film). Greene, Gayle. The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation. The University of Michigan … Read more Editor’s Book Nook

A number of diverse books and articles have been helpful to me in providing an orienting framework of questions around food and population issues. For an overall perspective, there is the brilliant historical investigation by Mike Davis (2002), Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World. Verso: New York. Davis … Read more Comments on Some Books and Articles on Food and Population

Biochar may – and the key word is ‘may’ – become an important, and therefore valuable, material for agriculture and for dealing with some environmental issues. On 16 February, at Queens University, Dr Hugh McLaughlin, visiting from the United States, ran a workshop titled: Understanding Adsorption in Carbonaceous Materials with Implications for Biochar. More than … Read more Biochar

Walking my usual track today with my buzzing golden meadow on one hand and on the other hand my dim and muffled wood paved with last year’s leaves and with elder branches ripened to mould, while between me and that stillness is the waving green margin of the wood, the row of maples so much … Read more New Tower

By Helmut Burkhardt, Mustafa Koç, and Analyn Yu

The day before the nation wide anti prorogation rally on January 23rd, four of my fellow constituents in Toronto Centre and I met with Bob Rae, our federal member of parliament. Accompanying me were Frans Schreyer, newly arrived Professor Emeritus from the University of Guelph, now living in the Distillery District, Anne Venton, a long … Read more Meeting with MP Bob Rae

The disarmament goal Barack Obama has set for the world is not impossible Resolution 1887, adopted unanimously by the 15-member United Nations Security Council yesterday (September 23, 2009), embodies a sweeping call for nuclear disarmament. “The historic resolution we just adopted,” Barack Obama told a rare heads-of-state session, “enshrines our shared commitment to a goal … Read more Getting Over Our Nuclear Denial

This proposal is for Science for Peace to consider a project to identify the ten greatest (most lamentable and tragic) human-caused disasters of the modern age. A proposed motto for the project is: “Peace is more than the absence of war”. The project would have multiple goals. The resulting Disasters List will present role models … Read more Disasters List

Canadian Lessons from the Holocaust Science for Peace was one of the endorsing organizations of Israeli Apartheid Week. At this same time, elected officials at various levels of government voted to condemn use of the phrase “Israeli apartheid” or more vaguely, to prohibit apartheid week activities (the Toronto District School Board), equating criticism of Israel … Read more Message from the President of Science for Peace