Richard Littlemore

Richard Littlemore is a freelance journalist, speech writer, ghostwriter and consultant, with clients currently concentrated in the academic, business and property development sectors. He also has significant history working on government and not-for-profit projects, including everything from being rapporteur and writer of the Report of the Ministerial Panel on the Trans Mountain Pipeline to being founding editor of the climate website DeSmogBlog.com. Credited major works include co-authorship with SFU Community Trust President and CEO Gordon Harris of the new book Building Community, Defining, Designing, Developing UniverCity, and with former David Suzuki Foundation Chair Jim Hoggan of the award-winning Climate Cover-up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming.

5 Articles

When the NDP wants to ‘axe the tax,’ where can a climate voter turn?

David Eby and Jagmeet Singh are trashing the single tax policy that, through its enforced neutrality, has actually put more money back in the hands of low-income voters.

Opinion

Richard Littlemore

Opinion

September 26th 2024

The Trans Mountain Pipeline is open and it's costing me sleep

Everyone keeps saying this new pipeline was built to carry crude oil, but in actual fact, it carries something far more explosive and potentially hazardous: diluted bitumen from the landlocked Alberta oil sands.

Opinion

Richard Littlemore

May 21st 2024

A retired lawyer and Trans Mountain protester discovers the underbelly of the courthouse

Trans Mountain pipeline protesters allege errors in judgment in the BC Supreme Court – and abuse of process by the federal government – in two actions on their way to the BC Court of Appeal. One of them, retired 73-year-old lawyer David Gooderham, was taken aback by what jail is like.

Race Against Climate Change

Richard Littlemore

News

April 2nd 2019

Facing jail over Trans Mountain protest, lawyer asks court to consider that topic 'no one wants to talk about'

Retired lawyer David Gooderham purposely got himself arrested on the front lines of protest against the Trans Mountain pipeline in a bid to get a court to hear a “defence of necessity” on climate science and the impact of Canada’s pipeline policies.

Race Against Climate Change

Richard Littlemore

News

February 7th 2019

Saving the world, a pen at a time

Can the earth be saved one fountain pen at a time? It is, admittedly, a ridiculous question. Fountain pens are, themselves, kind of ridiculous – at least as measured by how quick people are to hurl ridicule upon them.Yet, in an age when the ecologically conscious are supposed to be reducing, reusing and recycling, the fountain pen is the perfectly green alternative to disposable pens.

Richard Littlemore

November 19th 2018