Monbiot Raises the Challenge: What Are You Doing To Help?

onSep 22, 2006 @ 18:14 PDT

I’d like to ponder this column by the Guardian’s George Monbiot, but I have to jump in my wife’s huge “mini”-van and go pick up our guests for the weekend.

That said, I’m looking forward to the “Solutions” section that Ross Gelbspan is going to add to this blog in the coming months. There is much we can do without resorting to hair shirts and self-flagelation. But, as Monbiot says, only when we stop lying to ourselves – and each other – about the nature and scope of the challenge.

By Richard Littlemore

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Alberta Utility Bills Are Set To Spike And Data Centres Are To Blame

ByMitch Anderson

onJul 20, 2026 @ 12:33 PDT

Albertans pay the highest electricity rates in the country and new gas plants for AI data centres could drive costs up further.

How Big Oil Spent Decades Selling the Myth of ‘Clean’ Natural Gas

BySarah Hofmann

onJul 20, 2026 @ 07:05 PDT

A new report reveals oil and gas companies knew as early as the mid-1970s that methane fueled climate change while launching massive PR campaigns to promote natural gas as clean energy.