One Blue Marble

is an activist web site predicated on an ancient wisdom that says we don't inherit the planet from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

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The Red Letter Campaign

 

We need to reach Ignatieff and the Liberal Party of Canada. We think he's biding his time, and preparing to bring down the Conservatives later this year. That's all well and good. But even if the Conservatives are defeated in a general election, and the Liberals gain a majority, we still believe that our country would best be served by a coalition that represents Canadian interests from sea to shining sea.

The problems that come with transitioning to a low-carbon economy are vast and complicated. We need as many parliamentarians as we can find all pulling in the same direction. We need a new spirit of cooperation and common purpose if Canada is to once again become a great nation that is respected throughout the world.

Ignatieff has put the Tories on notice. Well, it's time for us to put Ignatieff — and the Liberals — on notice!

The Red Letter Campaign: Ignatieff is busy. He's trying to save the party, cozy up to Alberta, support the Conservative budget without seeming like a toady, fill depleted Liberal coffers, and hone his political skills. He's WAY too busy to read our mail.

But we're willing to bet that some members of the Liberal caucus do read their mail, and we bet they talk to their colleagues. So we we'll write to them. Every week or two in Our Red Letter Campaign, we'll decide on a theme, and we'll write letters to our Liberal MPs, or to a members of the Liberal shadow cabinet. We want to voice our objections to Ignatieff's unqualified support for the fossil fuel industry when renewable energy makes more sense for the economy and future generations, ask him to fight so that Environment Canada scientists are free to talk to the media about climate change, and bring down this government with all due haste.

We'll post our letters to our One Blue Marble blog, and here as text files, so you can download them easily, and personalize them before mailing. We want to keep up the pressure on Ignatieff, and help the Liberals understand that we speak for the MAJORITY of Canadians.

But that's not all we can do. We can also:

1. Talk to friends and family about climate change, and tell them why we need to support a change in government so that Canada stops stifling progress at the international climate talks.
2. Talk to friends and family about why the current Conservative budget will place Canada at an economic disadvantage for a generation — or more!
3. Write Letters to the Editor to Canadian newspapers. We'll start compiling a list of newspapers, and writing our own letters and posting them here.
4. Send us your Letters to the Editor. We'll post the best ones here as often we can, with full attribution (if that's what you'd like).
5. Keep us informed. We have two other jobs, so even though we follow global warming in the Canadian media, stories still get past us. Tell us what people in your community are saying!
6. Ask us for advice. We have answers for anyone who tries to hit you over the head with junk science.
7. Add our link to your blog to boost our hits. If you write about climate change, we'll do the same.
8. Buy a One Blue Marble Bumper Sticker to show your public support for the Coalition. But a groovy t-shirt or hoody to help us keep fighting!

We have four more campaigns that we're getting ready to launch in the coming weeks and months, so please stay tuned.

1. We want to slow development at the Alberta Oil Sands, the world's most environmentally destructive project.
2. We want to mothball all coal-fired power generation in Canada and the US over the next four years, or convince utilities to switch to biomass. This will cut more greenhouse gas emissions than anything else we can do as a society.
3. We want to engage religious groups across Canada to get them to join the campaign to slow climate change, as they've done in Scotland. And guess what... Scotland recently tabled incredibly ambitious climate change legislation that won the praise of environmentalists.
4. We want to take the muzzles off Environment Canada scientists so that Canadians can learn the truth about global warming

 

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Campaign # 1: The Red Letter Campaign

The Red Letter Campaign: Let's put Ignatieff on notice | Red Letter Day: Let Environment Canada Scientists Speak

Campaign # 2: Canada's Sorry Environmental Record

Canada: World's Worst Climate Villain | Turning the Corner: Conservative Disaster | Harper and Climate Change |

Campaign #3: Slow the Tar Sands

Alberta Tar Sands (Overview) | Alberta Tar Sands: Modern Parable | Alberta Tar Sands 2 | Alberta Tar Sands 3 | Alberta Tar Sands 4

Campaign # 4: Old King Coal (Coming Soon)

Campaign # 5: One Voice (Coming Soon)

USA: Supporting Obama's Leadership

The Global Warming Denial Campaign

Astroturfing & Misinformation | Climate Change Denial Industry | Climate Change Myths