Opinion

Amid the dire warnings about global warming's impacts, what's often overlooked is that actions to reduce or prevent them will lead to livable communities, improved air quality, protection of natural spaces and greater economic efficiency, to name jus

When goodness comes from something gone wrong This past week I celebrated another birthday and, as I usually do, I took the time to count my many blessings.

Get out an old pot or pan, and leave it by the front door with a good, strong wooden spoon to hit it with. Leave your camera on the table for another day, or to use while walking on the mountains or in the valley.

Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, said something cryptic last Friday, shortly after the Israelis began their latest round of attacks on the Gaza Strip.

Photo by Ilja Herb Plato said "There are three kinds of people: those who are dead, those who are alive, and those who sail the seas.

Symphony perfect for plaza The decision to remove a grove of long-standing trees for such vain short-lived use as an Olympic medal plaza seemed a perfect fulfillment of Joni Mitchell's 1970 song ("Big Yellow Taxi").

On a sunny August day a few years back, at the start of a canoe trip through Ontario's Algonquin Park with my then 16-year-old daughter, Myles, we pulled into a portage at the head of a small lake.

Those who don't outright deny the existence of human-caused global warming often argue we can't or shouldn't do anything about it because it would be too costly.

It's been almost two months since recycling in Whistler got an overhaul. Everyone's had to get used to cleaning every jar, manically making sure that no lids get in with the glass and recycling now has office hours — 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Only a very bad novelist would dare to write a scenario as simplistic as the current presidential election in Indonesia.