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Shades of Green
Shades of Green columns by Ray Grigg
Ray Grigg writes a weekly environmental column called the Shades of Green for a local newspaper. These informative and often provocative columns are reproduced here. You can contact Grigg through quadra@sierraclub.bc.ca
Recent Columns
A Eulogy for the Elk
Falls Pulp Mill
Salmon
Farming, Sea
Lice and Seven Years Later
Breathing
Together:
The Corporate and Public Conspiracy
Rational
Optimism:
Hope and Foreboding
Mortgaging the Future: The Burden of Debt
Empathy and
the Rise
of Connectivity
Bluefin
Tuna: An
Indicator Species
Alexandra's Great "Get Out Migration"
An Epidemic of Self-Importance
A Message for
Climate Change Skeptics
Ecopsychology: A New
Environmental Frontier
Solastalgia: A Word
For Our Time
A New Decade for Global Consciousness
Christmas 2009: A Year of Environmental Gifts
Climategate: Stay Calm, Be Rational
Gone Fishing: Past, Present and Future
Anthropocene: Back to the Centre of Attention
Fish, Salmon Farms
and Empty Oceans
The Difficult
Journey to Copenhagen
The Negatives of
Being Positive
A Warming Arctic:
Forgetting the Polar Bears
Climate 2099: A
Possible Future
Denial, Choice and
the Art of Being
First Things First: The Power of Action
Canada's
Environmental Politics: The Tragedy of Delay
McLuhan's Wake:
Media and Environment
The Geologian:
Honouring Bute And A Sacred Earth
Science, Scientists
and Salmon Farming
The Graph: A Picture
of the Present and Future
The Financial
Crisis, Free-Market Economics and the Environment
Peak Oil: The Best
Thing That Could Happen to Us
Panarchy: the
Science of Cycles (Part 1)
Panarchy: Insights
Into Our Modern Civilization (Part 2)
Our Energy Needs:
Getting From Here To There
Hungry Oceans: A
Collapsing Ecology
One Barrel of Oil:
The Measure of Our Energy Dilemma
Environment,
Economics and the Up Side of Down
Climate Science and
Sobering Prospects
Too Late? The
Question That Haunts Scientists
Necessity: The
Mother of Destruction
Depressing: A
Failing Strategy of Avoidance
Dangerous Times:
From Indifference Toward Panic
The Corporate Mind:
Reasons for Caution
The Oil Story and a
Glimpse at Future Chapters
Plutonic and Pluto,
the God of the Underworld
Complexity Theory:
Daring to Look at Our Future
Pascal's Wager:
Costs and Probabilities
Reflections on
Triviality and Truth
Inadvertence,
Surprises, Adversities and Benefits
Economic Meltdown and Environmental Predictions
Staying Home: The Radical Thing To Do
The Global Crisis:
Financial and Ecological
The Coming of the
Electric Car
Garbage and
Landfills: Thinking Before Dumping
One Child, Fewer
People, Profound Changes
Monetarism: The
Divine Right of Things
Cognitive Dissonance: A Dangerous Psychology
Confronting the
Tradition of Folly
The Heresy of
Praising Economic Recessions
The Geopolitics of
Global Oil: Slipping into a Sticky Mess
Carbon Taxes,
Climate Change and Dr. James E. Hansen
Smarts: Thinking About Thinking
Your $100 Climate Action Credit
Run-Of-River Power:
Another Reckless BC Gold Rush
The Legal Challenge to Salmon Farming
From the Bottom Up: The Emergence of Grassroots Change
Dilemmas: When the Solutions are the Problems
Geo-Engineering: Our Last Option For Combating Climate Change
Collision: Economics and Ecology
Individualism Versus Altruism: The Two Sides of Ourselves
Carbon Tax: Beginning of the Beginning
Salmon & Sea Lice, Again & Again
Behavioural Economics and Its Eco-lessons