The UN is currently hosting it’s 2008 Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland. This conference serves as an opportunity for many different international bodies related to climate change, and is being attended by representatives from over 180 countries, and independent observers. The primary purpose of this meeting is to make progress on what will be the successor to the Kyoto Protocol. The... Read more.

Last Friday, I was invited to Florenceville Middle School (Grade 6-8) to speak to their students about careers related to the environment. It was an opportunity to get into the classroom and try out a couple of things that will be helpful in preparing our educational programs that we hope to launch in the New Year. While there is an almost unanimous awareness of climate change (or global warming as... Read more.

We’re all familiar with nutritional labels on food. They help us identify the ingredients, and the nutritional value of what we eat. The transparency that these labels give consumers, allow them to make quick, informed decisions on what to buy. With the environment becoming a bigger and bigger issue by the day, many consumers are demanding to know the environmental impact of the things they buy.... Read more.

Several years of talking to people about climate change means that I have come across my fair share of people who don’t believe that there is such a thing as human induced climate change; that this is all in fact just one of many natural cycles the earth goes through. For the most part, they fall back on to one of several arguments to demonstrate their point. It would be easy for a bystander... Read more.

It’s been a while since my last post, but for good reason. I have moved back to Canada from the UK to work full time on The Gaia Project. I’ve spent several months talking with literally hundreds of people about what we can do here in New Brunswick to combat climate change. So what exactly is The Gaia Project? Well, the hope is that The Gaia Project will grow into a social enterprise, offering... Read more.