LiveSmart BC and my landlords

The last BC budget made many environmental and promoting sustainability groups happy. Look at this press release from the David Suzuki Foundation. One of the new program set by the government is LiveSmart BC. It aims at reducing green house gas emissions from household, which are responsible for about a quarter of BC emissions. LiveSmart program offers rebates for energy audit and energy retrofit of your house. My main challenge for this spring will be to convince my stingy landlords to get an energy audition done! Maybe with that new incremental carbon tax, I will convince them! (The story will continue…)

Harper's friend

Our beloved government in Ottawa has been often referred as “Bush’s best friend”. Tories have a lot in commons with the current White House: being anti-Kyoto, anti gay rights, pro Iraq war, etc. The list is continuing this week with at least two new elements: dead penalty and editing climate science. Even though death penalty has been abolished for 30 years in Canada, Tories vote against a motion today in the House of common reaffirming that Canada is against it. Secondly, Bush’s team is well known to make edits to documents about climate change and green house gas emissions. Tories, maybe inspired by our neighbors, decided to control any information leaving our environmental department for the sake of consistency! Honestly, I need change!

Alexandre for the newsletter team