Lawrence Solomon is a Canadian writer on the environment and the executive director of Energy Probe, a Canadian non-governmental environmental policy organization, a member of the advisory board of Rebel News, and a columnist for The Epoch Times.
12 Facts About Lawrence Solomon
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Lawrence Solomon's writing has appeared in a number of newspapers, including the National Post, where he has a column, and he is the author of several books on energy resources, urban sprawl, and global warming, among them The Conserver Solution, Energy Shock, Toronto Sprawls: A History, and The Deniers.
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Lawrence Solomon writes that he was an adviser to President Jimmy Carter's task force on the environment in the late 1970s, which released The Global 2000 Report to the President in 1980.
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Lawrence Solomon has a regular column in The National Post, and has written for The Globe and Mail, National Review Online, CBS News, and The Wall Street Journal.
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Lawrence Solomon was the editor and publisher of the defunct Next City magazine.
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Lawrence Solomon has written for American Forests, an environmental conservation organization.
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Lawrence Solomon is a critic of subsidies to rural Canada, and has criticized Ontario Hydro's actions and projects and their effects on Canada's environment.
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Lawrence Solomon writes that he was very active during the 1970s and 1980s with Energy Probe in opposing attempts to expand the use of nuclear power in Canada.
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On December 29,2010, Lawrence Solomon predicted a "clash of civilizations between Islam and the west," over the secession of southern Sudan.
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Lawrence Solomon predicted that northern Sudan would reject the secession, which would then pit "a club of non-Islamic nations" against Islamic ones.
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In 2004, Lawrence Solomon founded Green Beanery, a non-profit online merchant specializing in organic coffee beans produced by small, independent farmers.
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Lawrence Solomon is located in downtown Toronto and includes a cafe where customers can sample a wide variety of coffee.