From angela at cleanairalliance.org Mon Mar 2 15:28:58 2026 From: angela at cleanairalliance.org (Angela Bischoff - OCAA) Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:28:58 -0500 Subject: Greenspiration News & Events: solar world Message-ID: INTERNATIONAL Countries ranked by their use of wind/water/solar https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/WWSBook/Countries100Pct.pdf The Trump administration is disappearing climate change data https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5756951-federal-data-threatened-trump-era/ The Innate and Inseparable Ties Between Nuclear Weapons and Energy https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/24/the-innate-and-inseparable-ties-between-nuclear-weapons-and-energy/?sfnsn=mo Proximity to nuclear power plants associated with increased cancer mortality A major new study, published yesterday in Nature, concludes that proximity to a nuclear reactor leads to about 6400 cancer deaths per year in the US. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69285-4 3 video recordings of brilliant anti-nuke webinars: - Debunking Nuclear Hopium with Dr. Gordon Edwards - Safe and Affordable Energy with Dr. Mark Z. Jacobson and Joe Mangano - Why nuclear power is neither low carbon nor emissions-free with Dr. Marvin Resnikoff and attorney Susan Shapiro https://www.grassrootsinfo.org/forums $63 Billion and Counting: Why Nuclear Power is a Financial Disaster in the West https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0YCKJAVNn8 What to expect in year five of Russia's invasion? - 14 min. video with Anders Puck Nielsen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk73PkJt9gI Ethiopia bans fossil car imports and leapfrogs over to EVs https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ethiopias-fossil-fuel-car-ban-is-a-vision-of-the-future/id1621556928 CANADA The World Is Going Solar. Where?s Canada? Canada is far less disadvantaged by our northern geography than is commonly believed. Solar is proving to be cheaper, more efficient, and far less exposed to geopolitical risk. https://sagecanada.substack.com/p/the-world-is-going-solar-wheres-canada Canadians Want to Become a Renewable Energy Superpower Climate change remains a top concern, and Canadians expect action from leaders. They want public investments in renewables, not fossil fuels. Article, webinar, report. https://reclimate.ca/canadians-want-to-become-a-renewable-energy-superpower/ Meanwhile, Canada poised to become 'one of the largest suppliers of LNG in the world' - who asked for this? https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tim-hodgson-lng-exports-100-million-tonnes-9.7107519 Canada must acknowledge the implications of selling uranium to India India is not a routine customer. It is a nuclear-armed state that has never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the agreement meant to anchor global efforts against the spread of nuclear weapons. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-uranium-india-nuclear-canada-carney-npt-non-proliferation-cameco/ https://www.ccnr.org/myth_4.html Mark Carney made ?terrible mistake? by parroting Donald Trump?s justification for war on Iran https://albertapolitics.ca/2026/03/mark-carney-made-terrible-mistake-by-parroting-donald-trumps-justification-for-war-on-iran-says-historian-and-security-expert/ Elizabeth May Gives a Press Conference Outlining Consistent Abuse of Parliamentary Democracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_kgboopxLY The missing piece in Canada?s economic resistance to Trump and climate mobilization: new Crown corps 1. A federal high-speed rail corporation 2. Nationalize an auto plant that will expedite the production of EVs 3. Renewable energy corporations 4. New provincial public corporations focused on the mass production and installation of electric heat pumps, solar panels and batteries, and energy efficiency. https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/27/opinion/crown-corporations-canada-economic-climate-strategy Feds shut down assessment ask for Ring of Fire mine ?Every First Nation that commented supported our request (for an Impact Assessment). Ottawa chose to ignore us,? Neskantaga First Nation Chief Gary Quisess said. ?This decision puts our river, our homelands, and our Treaty rights at risk. We will not allow mining companies or governments to decide the future of the Ring of Fire without us.? https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/27/news/ring-of-fire-mine-project-assessments Heads up: Bill C-15 is a threat to democracy https://thekingstoncrow.substack.com/p/heads-up-bill-c-15-is-a-threat-to Pierre Poilievre is misleading the public about refugee healthcare - 3 min. video by Desmond Cole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS2F6Be0huo ONTARIO How will free-spending Ford pay for Ontario?s $400-billion nuclear plans? Ford's plans include new nuclear power plants at Darlington, Bruce and Wesleyville, and the refurbishments of existing reactors at the Bruce, Pickering and Darlington sites. Will they triple current electricity costs to pay the capital costs? Or increase the debt? (already half a trillion) https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0e8c42c6a1c9f0892f03322e9abc1a841cd46863c1752ef3e0f845cffa77580c/YWLKZLYTVRDC7CTHP7MGU3GVNU/ Wesleyville, Lake Ontario and the Price of Silence The Wesleyville site, just west of Port Hope, is slated to become the largest nuclear generating station in the world. It would further concentrate industrial risk along a lake that supplies drinking water to tens of millions of people in Canada and the US, and supports one of the most important freshwater ecosystems on Earth. Lake Ontario is already the most nuclear?industrialized body of freshwater on the planet. https://waterkeepermark.substack.com/p/wesleyville-lake-ontario-and-the Ontario is ground zero for the data centre boom in Canada https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/02/news/ontario-towns-cities-data-centres-mapped Ford government faces calls to tackle salt pollution Ontario uses half the road salt in the country. Road salt is toxic to all living creatures. Chloride ? the primary ingredient in road salt ? harms aquatic life, killing some species and altering the behaviour of others. It also pollutes our drinking water. What's it doing to us? https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/25/news/ontario-ford-government-road-salt-liability TORONTO Blue bin backlash: Toronto councillors slam privatized recycling system https://nowtoronto.com/news/blue-bin-backlash-toronto-councillors-slam-privatized-recycling-system/ ______________________ ______________________ EVENTS NDP Leadership Debate: For People & The Planet Mon. March 2, 7 p.m. ET Hosted by Lead Now. Debate topics will explore candidates? stances on the climate crisis, housing policy, corporate profiteering, solidarity with Palestine, global geopolitics, and migrant rights. The debate format will feature quickfire questions, a ping pong round, and more. https://leadnow.ca/campaigns/ndp-leadership-debate/ ?? ______________________ ______________________ Making the Abolition of War a Realistic Goal Mon. March 2, 5 p.m. ET Over zoom and in person at: Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave, Toronto 45 years ago, Gene Sharp contended, in this award-winning article, that war can realistically be abolished - if societies prepare for a credible, civilian-based nonviolent defense system capable of deterring and defeating aggression. Today, however, we are no closer to the abolition of war than in 1980. Is Sharp?s notion of civilian-based defence defective? Can we modify Sharp?s approach to make this abolition a realistic goal? Register for zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/f7Wem1TbTqO5IbpnkF1SiQ#/registration Register for in-person: https://www.scienceforpeace.org/events-1/making-the-abolition-of-war-a-realistic-goal Read the article penned by Gene Sharp: https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/making-the-abolition-of-war-a-realistic-goal/ ______________________ ______________________ Rally Against Health Care Cuts Mon. March 2, 10 a.m. 964 Albion Road, Etobicoke, Doug Ford's office Rally at Doug Ford?s office. Health care workers to protest on Monday morning as staffing cuts take toll on workers, patients. More than 9,000 nurses and PSWs are expected to lose their jobs by 2027-28. More than 2,450 hospital beds are projected to close by then due to insufficient funding. Meanwhile, the government has been pouring more into private clinics every year, chipping away at our public system. Join us, to demand better for our public hospitals. Let's channel our anger and send this government a strong message: we care about our public health care system. And we will continue to defend it. https://ochu.on.ca/2026/02/27/rally-at-doug-fords-office-health-care-workers-to-protest-on-monday-morning-as-staffing-cuts-take-toll-on-workers-patients/ ______________________ ______________________ Celebrating Tooker March 3rd is the anniversary of Tooker's passing in 2004. To celebrate, enjoy a few of his video shorts. We're digitizing and logging all 600 hours of his video recordings, and posting the best clips here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTS8KSZg67k&list=PL3IwhNn-WrINTQz2fBNayDoBWLW0y59le Please consider contributing to Tooker's legacy by helping us make a documentary (you'll receive a charitable receipt): https://greenspiration.org/tooker/tooker-tapes/ And if you're in Edmonton, join in the memorial bike ride: https://www.facebook.com/events/25916298968019359 ______________________ ______________________ AI's Unquenchable Thirst for Water Tues. March 3, noon ET Beyond its staggering electricity demands, AI requires water ? and a lot of it. A single data center can consume over 300,000 gallons a day ? equivalent to the water used in a thousand homes ? to cool the computers powering your chat prompts. As climate change worsens water scarcity through rising temperatures and disruptions to precipitation patterns, AI threatens to further drain water from the areas that need it most; over two-thirds of data centers built since 2022 are in water-stressed regions. As big tech continues its plan to build as many data centers as possible, join Covering Climate Now for a one-hour discussion where we'll highlight the reasons for AI?s ever-growing thirst, explore how to cover the local concerns of communities facing water shortages, and investigate potential solutions to safeguard this increasingly scarce resource. https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zBMOFFEdSiyGbY0bV_SNFg#/registration ? ______________________ ______________________ Nuclear weapons, war and racism: why we must unite against the Far Right Tues. March 3, 2 p.m. ET Join us for this webinar to look at the links between nuclear weapons, war and racism and why we must unite against the far right. Hosted by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the UK. https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MqsTFK9fTDasYeAPpQ3gAQ#/registration ______________________ ______________________ Climate Conversation with Faith based community Mar. 4, 7 p.m. ET We will use a simple new resource that draws on wisdom from the Faithful Climate Conversations and the Jesuit Forum to offer a straight-forward circle process to discuss climate issues. In small groups, through a series of rounds, participants will answer questions that help to break open feelings and thoughts about climate change and what we could do about it. The method could be used to explore a variety of climate issues. Come to learn the method and to consider what type of climate conversations you might lead in your community. This is a pilot project; we will save time at the end for feedback and questions about both the process and the topic. https://fortheloveofcreation.ca/event/climate-conversation-equipping-event-evening-option/ ______________________ ______________________ Advancing Justice and Equality: Voices from Legal Frontlines Across the Globe Thur. March 5, 2 p.m. ET Bah?'? Centre, 288 Bloor W, Toronto You?ll hear from leaders working to close the justice gap for women and girls in Canada and globally. Together, we?ll explore survivor-centred justice, legal empowerment, and bold solutions advancing transformative equality from Canada to Uganda and West Africa. Co-hosted by Crossroads International, the Ontario Council for International Cooperation and The Bah?'? Community of Canada, https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/advancing-justice-equality-voices-from-legal-frontlines-across-the-globe-tickets-1982979071784?aff=oddtdtcreator ______________________ ______________________ Rise and Resist: International Women's Day Rally and March Sat. Mar. 7, 11 a.m. Rally indoors, then we march at 1 p.m. OISE, U of T, 252 Bloor St. W. https://iwdtoronto.ca/ ______________________ ______________________ Celebrate International Women?s Day with VOW (Voice of Women for Peace) - Awards Ceremony and Peace Gala Sat. Mar. 7, reception 4:30 - 6 p.m., communal dinner and awards ceremony 6 - 8 p.m. ET Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave, Toronto VOW's Peace Awards Ceremony honours the legacy and impact of outstanding women in our communities?visionaries whose leadership continues to inspire the work we do. Together, we will share a delicious meal, network, and listen to powerful speeches from remarkable peace leaders. Dinner tix are sold out but you can watch the ceremony over zoom. Keynote speaker will be Michele Landsberg. Awards: https://vowpeace.org/peace-awards/ ? Zoom: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSccsN8HI7TTXQYneCymZmhM7Zgk3GBomoqWh9lRZIgQ3iMHdw/viewform ______________________ ______________________ Song in Honor of International Women?s Day Women of the World Take Over - cause if you don't, the world will come to an end - it won't take long https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqIiulUCoTE ? ______________________ ______________________ We are 4 Billion Dead. And we are fighting for Life. Sat. March 7, 1 - 3 p.m. ET For 30 years, world leaders have failed to tell the truth and solve the existential climate crisis. We now know that 4 billion people are at risk of being killed as soon as 2050. Across the West, the far right is surging. There?s a general sense that nothing can be done. The question is not whether things will change; the question is who will shape the change when it arrives. Whoever is most prepared will win. And preparation calls for understanding the truth about climate breakdown. Who wins will have a massive impact on whether billions die. We are a group of citizens who decided to take the arch of history and hand it over to ordinary people, who, guided by iteratively improving the science on the existential climate crisis, will determine the direction of the future, and the destiny of billions of people on the planet. This is a battle between forces of death, forces that seek to destroy our planet at the altar of greed, and forces of life, who will go to any nonviolent lengths, to preserve life. https://4billiondead.org/action-network-launch-form/ ______________________ ______________________ Celebrate International Women's Day Sunday, March 8, 8 p.m. ET Speakers include Bianca Mugyenyi, Kshama Sawant, Jasmine Peardon, Rubina Chowdhury, with Elizabeth Byce chairing the event. Sponsored by: Socialist Action-Canada. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84513489947?pwd=KakhKax9j9YWeUGeFt3KgUPSSkbhAu.1 ______________________ ______________________ More Toronto events https://showuptoronto.ca/ For the best Canadian climate and energy news, visit and subscribe to the Energy Mix newsletter http://theenergymix.com/ Democracy Now Daily Show - global peace, justice and enviro news https://www.democracynow.org/ Tooker Tapes Archive Project - Youtube Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3IwhNn-WrINTQz2fBNayDoBWLW0y59le _______________________ _______________________ Submissions, subscribes, unsubscribes, and comments: mailto:angela at cleanairalliance.org Share this newsletter on social media using this link: http://greenspiration.org/news-events/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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