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COVID-19 threatens to widen disparities, but the Great Reset is an opportunity to help the most vulnerable and address poverty, hunger and inequality….

The government of Alberta is pressing hard for Canadian government environmental approval to expand oil sands production through the addition of new pipelines and oil sands projects.  Desperation is apparent as the provinces economy is sputtering with a commercial office vacancy rate in Calgary, and an unemployment rate for young men, both hovering around 20%.  
Alberta’s deficit this year is $6.7 billion on a budget of $50 billion and it plans to cut up to 6000 civil service jobs.  The government is promoting the growth opportunity which it feels will deliver the simplest and quickest relief: oil.

Trade unions are calling on states meeting on the 7 – 16 July at the United Nations High-level Political Forum (HLPF) to accelerate the (…)…

by Dean Bell… It was once put to me by an ex colleague that urban tree professionals are designing “concrete coffins” in order to integrate trees into paved urban environments. They were in essence indicating that conventional approaches to urban tree pit design are driving high mortality rate …

Urgent fundamental changes to ‘fast fashion’ clothing items which are treated by many as disposable is needed to stem a devastating impact upon the environment according to scientists. The fashion industry has been heavily criticised for the devastating environmental pollution caused by its…