How a climate-activist-turned-city councillor, helped lead the charge for climate-emergency action in Vancouver. Erica Ifill Updated
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Christine Boyle is a climate-activist-turned-city-councillor with OneCity Vancouver, a progressive political party she co-founded in 2014. She may be the party’s only member in city hall, but in her two and a half years in office, she’s pushed Vancouver to declare a climate emergency and helped lead the charge to adopt a climate-emergency action plan. Here’s how she gets it done.
Why did you switch from advocacy to politics?
As someone who has worked outside the system for a long time, I see how much it matters to have people at the table who are working on the same issues in collaboration with social movements.
WOMEN S EQUALITY PARTY
Louise Timlin, Women s Equality Party candidate for Evendons ward. Louise Timlin said: My name is Louise Timlin and I’m leader of the Reading and Wokingham branch of the Women’s Equality Party. I’m standing in Evendons ward for the Wokingham Borough Council elections on 6th May 2021. I have lived in Woosehill for 17 years and I love the community spirit here which has been demonstrated brilliantly during this pandemic. I have two children, a girl aged 12 and a boy aged 13, who go to school locally. I work as a senior director in the pharmaceutical industry and I am a parent governor at The Holt School.
A Vancouver politician explains how curbing greenhouse-gas emissions will affect the look of the city by Charlie Smith on April 22nd, 2021 at 10:37 AM 1 of 7 2 of 7
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Ever since the Romans figured out how to create concrete, this substance has come to define the landscape in many cities.
The material used to build the Colosseum and the Pantheon along with Roman arches and later dams, roads, and buildings reduced their reliance on stone and brick.
It’s no different in Vancouver, where concrete high-rises dot the landscape. Whether it’s in the viaducts, at the airport, or in the sidewalks, concrete abounds.
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Seagrass meadows provide homes for young fish and protected creatures like seahorses and stalked jellyfish. The plant also has an integral role in stabilising the seabed, cleaning the surrounding seawater and capturing and storing significant amounts of carbon.
Experts estimate the UK may have lost at least 44 per cent of its seagrasses since 1936, 39 per cent since the 1980s, and that the losses over longer time spans may be as high as 92 per cent.
A Labour councillor up for election this year has serious questions over the effectiveness of a proposed new solar farm in BARKHAM. A plan to convert Barkham Farms into a solar farm with approximately 72,000 panels was submitted by Wokingham Borough Council on its planning portal on Thursday, April 8. The council has argued the solar farm would provide the borough with much needed green energy. However, the effectiveness of the proposed solar farm in cutting carbon emissions has been questioned, along with concerns about the impact the solar farm could have on wildlife. The viability of the solar farm and the part it would play in the council’s strategy to respond to the ‘Climate Emergency’ has been seized upon by Andy Croy, the Labour Councillor for the Bulmershe & Whitegates ward.