Richard Littlemore

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About 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.

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Retired lawyer David Gooderham at his art studio at home in Vancouver, B.C. on Jan. 25, 2019. Photo by Michael Ruffolo

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

Retired lawyer David Gooderham among his files on climate change at home in Vancouver Jan. 25, 2019. Photo by Michael Ruffolo

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

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.