As I was wandering through the airport this spring I succumbed to my one true addiction: books. Yes, I know that a good environmentalist uses the local library, but I’m working on it….. Anyway, as always, I try to pick up something that I’ve read a review on or something that just jumps out at [...]
Karen Cooling’s Blog Posts
Karen Cooling is a National Staff Representative with the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada. She has more than 30 years’ experience as a labour and environmental activist, including being a founding member of Dogwood Initiative, chairing the provincial NDP’s Environment Committee and sitting on the Board of Directors of Toxic Free Canada.
‘Green’ Summer Reading
June 3rd, 2010 · Karen Cooling · 1 Comment · Climate change, Energy, Environment, resources & sustainability, Recommended reading
Tags: Summer Reading
It’s about jobs
February 13th, 2009 · Karen Cooling · Comments Off · BC Election 2009, Economy, Environment, resources & sustainability
Next week the provincial government releases their budget and I am looking for something, anything at all, for forest workers.Now I hate to be a total whiner, but since 2001, BC has lost 65 sawmills, four pulp mills and about 20,000 jobs in the forest industry. With the spin-off effect of about 1 to 3, [...]
Tags: budget·EI·forestry·unemployment
