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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

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 [...]

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It’s about jobs

February 13th, 2009 · Karen Cooling · No Comments · 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, [...]

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