Buying in bulk is best
Buying small is sometimes a better option While there may be some benefits to buying big, there are also some potential economic, environmental and health drawbacks. The Toronto Food Policy Council suggests…
We can use other, better policies to shrink our emissions.
A price on carbon isn’t the only way to address the problem of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to address the problem of climate change but it is, in many ways, the most…
It costs more to eat healthy
Healthy eating doesn’t necessarily cost more The University of Guelph Food Institutes 2016 Food Price Reports the average Canadian household will spend up to $345 more on food overall in 2016 regardless…
Carbon pricing is a new, untested idea.
It’s a phrase mumbled a thousand times across a thousand tense family dinner tables, “Your economists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they…
Carbon pricing hurts jobs.
Carbon pricing will of course reduce the demand for carbon-intensive goods and services but at the same time it will increase the demand for low-carbon goods and services. In other words, the…
People cannot change their behaviours in response to carbon pricing.
A carbon price is all about encouraging people and businesses to find innovative ways to avoid paying the carbon price. A carbon price says “Come at me, bro,” and that works. In…
Organic Always Means Pesticide-Free
Organic foods typically contain fewer pesticides than non-organic foods, but there are over 20 chemicals that farmers are able to use on organic crops to help keep those crops pest-free. Mainly, farmers…
Through a food-security lens
Tarasuk has met with provincial officials who are reviewing P.E.I.’s poverty reduction strategy, and would like to see the government target food insecurity as part of that strategy. She urged government to…
There is no point to carbon pricing if you rebate the revenues.
Sure, a case can be made for this if you believe that given the choice between “having more money than when you started with” and “breaking even,” people will pick the second…
Big polluters are getting a break.
I don’t have time to explain this, but while this adorable red panda has your attention he suggests you stroll on over to YouTube and and watch Ecofiscal’s own short video on…
