1996-1997 Environmental Articles (while traveling in various parts of North America, including Cuba)

By Tooker Gomberg, Montreal, Canada. Ten years after the Montreal Protocol the planet still burns. A few days ago I hit a funk. Maybe it had to do with the recent Ozone Hole Gala Reception […]

By Tooker Gomberg and Angela Bischoff, Montreal, Canada. Environmentalism for the New Millennium. Three long-time eco-gurus recently graced Concordia University’s orientation week entitled Environmentalism For The New Millennium. Each with decades of working on ecological […]

By Tooker Gomberg and Angela Bischoff, Vermont, U.S.A. Sewage and Food Scraps – from waste to wealth. You might say that Burlington, Vermont is getting its sh*t together. And its banana peels too. We munched […]

By Tooker Gomberg and Angela Bischoff, New York City. New York’s urban ecology is thriving. Out of the glitter, graffiti and asphalt a new face of New York is emerging. Slowly, the Big Apple is […]

By Tooker Gomberg, Montreal, Canada. Highlights of our federal election bid. Running for office is never dull. One guy phoned our campaign office suggesting that nowadays erections were more meaningful than elections. Someone else left […]

By Tooker Gomberg and Angela Bischoff, New York City. Five years after Rio the planet is losing ground. These days the UN looks odd. The towering buildings are still there, but the roof of the […]

By Tooker Gomberg, Montreal, Canada. Taking climate change to the Prime Minister’s doorstep. I wish that someone during this election campaign would talk about guns that could actually save lives. The kind of guns that […]

By Tooker Gomberg, Montreal, Canada. Tooker runs for the federal ND’s in Outremont. This column is being written on Earth Day, a good time to ponder what’s happening on this part of the planet. Across […]

By Tooker Gomberg and Angela Bischoff, Montreal, Canada. Our take on Bill C-71, The Tobacco Act. These days in Canada, where there’s smoke, there’s politics. Drug addiction, lung cancer, and smoky jazz festivals hover in […]

By Tooker Gomberg and Angela Bischoff, Montreal, Canada. Automobile emissions are the environmental equivalent to chain smoking in the home. There are some interesting things in the air, especially for those who breath. Toronto has […]