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"Disinformation minimizes the seriousness of the situation. It systematically redirects our indignation to the wrong targets. It reverses the solutions and the culprits." -Karel Mayrand, in this week's Weekender. @karelmayrand.bsky.social energymixweekender.substack.com/p/it-looks-l...

It Looks Like an AI Image. But the Photos of Beachgoers Watching a Wildfire Are Real.Wildfire images from Europe and closer by show that the climate emergency is now. But misinformation abounds as powerful interests try to redirect attention, discredit climate solutions.energymixweekender.substack.com

Recognizing that natural agricultural processes differ from industrial fossil carbon use, research shows a net reduction in calculating wool's carbon emissions between 35-102%. iwto.org/accounting-f...

Biogenic Accounting Improves Impact Assessment for Wool | IWTOGroundbreaking research shows biogenic carbon accounting produces a more accurate climate impact assessment for wool than current methods.iwto.org

Grateful and honoured to have partnered with @irpp.org exploring how communities are building resilience and optimism in the face of transformations in technology, markets, trade relationships, and emissions reductions. Full report, community profiles, and more, here: irpp.org/community-tr...

The Community Transformations Project - IRPPThe Community Transformations Project Supporting Workers and Communities on the Road to Net Zero Summary Canada’s communities are facing major challenges, and opportunities, in the coming decades as t...irpp.org

The news never stops, but we're taking a break, so today's Energy Mix digest is recapping the top stories from the summer so far. Btw, did you know you can have @theenergymix.com delivered right to your inbox twice/week, for free? #climatenews #solutionsjournalism www.theenergymix.com/subscriptions/

Many people have been considering how best the Government of Canada might spend $43.7 billion. The feds have committed to a #pipeline, but when we asked for #anybetterideas, our readers have had lots to say. Here are just some of the ideas we're received. #nationbuilding #cdnpoli #climateaction

Latest edition of The SHIFT, hot off the press: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

No Longer Avoidable: What Will Accountability For Climate Harm Look Like? | The Energy MixThis week's edition looks at accountability for climate harm from our dependence on fossil fuels, as the consequences are starkly obvious all around us.www.linkedin.com

If you're looking for an entertaining twist on game night, and one that's likely to get a lively discussion going, how about playing the Any Better Ideas challenge this weekend with friends and family? Full details and inspiration here: www.theenergymix.com/the-west-coa...

Any Better Ideas?We’re curious about your reaction to up to $43.7B of Canadians’ tax dollars going to a proposed gas pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.www.theenergymix.com

What if the graphite needed for a rapidly-growing battery supply chain could be produced and refined without using extensive water and toxins like hydrofluoric acid that currently make it a hazardous, environmentally-unfriendly, and expensive process? www.theenergymix.com/montreal-sta...

Montreal Start-Up Has Cleaner, Cheaper Graphite Refining ProcessGreen Graphite Technologies plans full-scale production by 2030, possibly taking graphite off the standard critical minerals list.www.theenergymix.com

How long has Canada known about fossil fuels causing climate change? Longer than we claim, says a new report showing the U.S., Canada and China were made aware of research by their own advisors showing the link in the 1950s www.theenergymix.com/governmentsk...

#GovernmentsKnew About Climate Risks Decades Earlier Than They Now AdmitWhile major emitting countries say they can't be held accountable for climate harm that predates their awareness of the risks, a new report from the U.S. Center for International Environmental Law sho...www.theenergymix.com

#Trump's #wildfire tariff threat was the latest in a series of summer conspiracy theories across North America & Europe, apparently seeking to shift responsibility for #extremeweather and obscure the role of #climatechange & GHG emissions.

Ex-MP Angus Declares ‘Age of the Predator’ as Trump Officials Ponder Wildfire TariffHot on the heels of a new round of 50% tariffs on a wide range of Canadian imports, scheduled to take effect Aug. 19, Donald Trump has instructed his administration to look into a separate punitive me...www.theenergymix.com

In the latest instalment of Hidden Wonder Valley, Jody MacPherson explores how as hyperscale #datacentres move into more and more small, #ruralcommunities in the absence of adequate legislative and policy frameworks, communities are becoming increasingly exposed to #misinformation.

As Data Centres Multiply, Government Silence Leaves Communities Exposed to MisinformationAs experts warn that misinformation and disinformation are existential threats to Canadian democracy, communities watching hyperscale data centres move into their neighbourhoods say they are being sto...www.theenergymix.com

The Mix is asking for #anybetterideas on how our federal government should spend the $43.7 billion they recently committed to the West Coast Pipeline. Adamant, a new public policy organization, has mapped out five clean megaprojects that they say would be worth building a nation around. Recap here:

Build Canada Better: Five Clean Megaprojects Worth Building a Nation AroundInstead of propping up sunsetting industries, Canada needs a hard pivot to large-scale, transformative, distributed energy megaprojects.www.theenergymix.com

Anger is high across Canada as nearly 1,000 #wildfires burn (Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre). #FirstNations communities left to be "their own heroes," firefighters battling #misinformation alongside the flames, and growing frustration about Ottawa’s pivot away from serious #climateaction.

Wildfire Season Bursts Open as First Nations Face Infernos, Firefighters Battle MisinformationFrom First Nations communities confronting systemic failures that leave them fleeing ahead of infernos, to firefighters battling misinformation alongside the flames, to smoke-choked urban commentators...www.theenergymix.com

Thank you Casper Tybjerg, Matthew Klippenstein, and @nannyogg63.bsky.social for your #betterideas. #43billion #pipeline

Dozens of #fires burning in northern Ontario have forced people from their communities and burned the #Namaygoosisagagun First Nation to the ground. #Smoke from those fires is causing air quality warnings across Ontario and in multiple U.S. states. U.S. elected officials have responded with outrage.

U.S. Lawmakers Threaten Sanctions, Annexation as Winds Carry Canadian Wildfire Smoke SouthSome U.S. lawmakers on Thursday threatened to sanction Canada—or even possibly annex it entirely—as they raged about wildfire smoke blanketing many parts of Canada and swaths of the United States.www.theenergymix.com

#Pathways won't come close to capturing all the emissions from the new West Coast pipeline, Canadian Climate Institute says, meaning Canada's #GHG emissions are on track to increase significantly. @climateinstitute.bsky.social www.theenergymix.com/oil-sands-em...

Oil Sands Emissions Will Outpace Reductions from Pathways CCS, Climate Institute WarnsThe Canadian Climate Institute’s Principal Economist, Dave Sawyer, estimates average new emissions from the oil sands at 20 million tonnes per year, well above the total the industry is offering to ca...www.theenergymix.com

Community opposition blocked or delayed US$64 billion of #datacentre projects in the United States in less than a year, yet community concerns do not make the top-four list of considerations for data centre proponents when they pick a location.

Community Pushback Blocks $64B in U.S. Data Centre DevelopmentCommunity opposition blocked or delayed US$64 billion of data centre projects in the United States in less than a year, yet community concerns do not make the top-four list of considerations for data ...www.theenergymix.com

#betterideas #43billion #pipeline

Joannah Lawson is a philanthropist, nutritionist, and co-founder of the Brian and Joannah Lawson Family Foundation. She spoke with Mitchell Beer about #food, #farming, and how connecting with people around issues they already care about can lead to important discussions about #climate change.

Q&A: Focus on Food is a ‘Powerful Lever’ to Talk Climate, Sequester Carbon, Lawson SaysIn a feature interview with The Energy Mix, philanthropist Joannah Lawson finds hope in recent gains in the energy transition and regenerative agriculture—and stresses an intergenerational duty to hel...www.theenergymix.com

#43billion #pipeline #betterideas