Hope you’re enjoying a relaxing weekend. Here’s some Saturday fun to add to it; Fum is the cat and Gebra the barn owl. They are both about one year old and had known each other for a month when this video was taken: Song “Deixa…
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350 or bust: Hug A Climate Scientist Today!
Today is officially “Hug a Climate Scientist Day”, a reminder that climate scientists are our friends! Don’t forget to do so, virtually, or in reality if you happen to have one as a neighbour or colleague. For years climate scientis…
Continue reading350 or bust: Analysis of Britain’s Shape After Sea Level Rise, Ken To Barbie “It’s Over”, And More News
It’s Friday, and I’m just wrapping up two very time-consuming work projects, which means I’m in the mood for some good news, and a good laugh – come to think of it, I’m always in the mood for those things. Anyway, here&#…
Continue reading350 or bust: Remember, We Shouldn’t Make Connections Between Climate Change And All The Extreme Weather Events We’ve Been Experiencing Lately
From an op-ed by Bill McKibben, author and founder of 350.org, narrated and illustrated by Stephen Thomson of Plomomedia.com: The transcript of the original article: “Caution: It is vitally important not to make connections. When you see pictures…
Continue reading350 or bust: The Trouble With Carbon
More from The Agenda With Steve Paikin, this week broadcasting from the Equinox Summit: Energy 2030 – Ingenuity in Energy Solutions being held at the University of Waterloo. Last night’s discussion focused on transportation and how they w…
Continue reading350 or bust: The Problem We’ve Created
The world needs to reduce carbon emissions. While oil and gas were cheap, there were few incentives to seek newer, cleaner and renewable resources. But time is now the biggest factor. We’re running out of cheap energy and continuing to contribute…
Continue readingNo Comment: Campaign Life Coalition
“Then we have the enormous demographic cost of the 3.2 million Canadians killed by abortion since 1969. By now, these individuals would be in the workforce, paying taxes and generating national wealth.” —Campaign Life Coalition: The Econo…
Continue readingLinda Gibbons is Set to Continue Her Crusade
Ugh, what a surprise. Two days after being released from jail, Gibbons revealed in an interview with the National Post (the only paper that bothers reporting about her legal troubles) that she would continue to trespass onto the properties of several a…
Continue reading350 or bust: Eating Local Is Delicious
Where we live in northwestern Ontario we don’t have access to a lot of local market gardens or farms. But what we do have on our doorstep are lakes full of pickerel and jackfish, as well as some trout and perch. Mark took our youngest daughter …
Continue reading350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~ Winston Churchill
Continue reading350 or bust: Some Saturday Fun
Even climate hawks take a day off now and then, so that’s what I’m doing today.If you’re in need of some lightheartedness, too, check out this video of a cat playing “Red Light, Green Light” with the camera:
Continue reading350 or bust: “Stop Harper” Protest by Parliamentary Page During Conservative Throne Speech
A Senate page managed to stand just meters away from the prime minister with a sign saying “Stop Harper” during the government’s throne speech in Ottawa today. Brigette Marcelle De Pape had this to say after being escorted out of the …
Continue reading350 or bust: Climate Scientist Heidi Cullen On The “C-Word”
Climate Quote of the Day: But even though we don’t have all the answers — and maybe never will — we do know enough to act. And that is really the bigger point, the one I try to bring home when the phone rings. The recent National Rese…
Continue readingLinda Gibbons Out of Jail
Linda Gibbons, the second Canadian candidate for pro-life martyrdom (the other being Mary Wagner) and the self-styled “prisoner of conscience” (which tells me that her conscience is insane, being the principal reason why she has managed t…
Continue reading350 or bust: Deadly Tornado In Massachusetts Pulls Water From River, And Other Friday Links
It’s a rainy Friday in northwestern Ontario as we head into a weekend which will include, for our family, watching the second hockey game of the Stanley Cup finals between the Vancouver Canucks and the Boston Bruins. I know, today is significant …
Continue readingNo Comment: Stephanie Gray
“The uterus exists in my body, every month getting ready for someone else’s body. I can live without my uterus, the pre-born child cannot. And so in some sense there is a part of my body that exists more for my offspring that it does for me…
Continue readingIf Canada Were To Become A Theocracy…
Not surprisingly, abortion rights would be the first to go. According to one of my least favourite online reads, Life Site News, the Knights of Columbus (read: old white men) are joining forces across Canada to make all pregnancies, wanted or unwanted,…
Continue reading350 or bust: Gardening Upside Down
We live in a topsy-turvy world where far, far more money is spent on guns and making war than on educating children and feeding the starving, and where the richest corporations in the world have funded a successful PR campaign to paint climate scientis…
Continue reading350 or bust: How Our Food System Is Making Us Sick: Former Food Industry Analyst
Robyn O’Brian, author of “The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It” shares her personal story and how it inspired her current path as a “Real Food” evangelist. Grounded in a successfu…
Continue reading350 or bust: Global Groundwater Depletion Is Detected From Space
Climate Change Quote of the Day: “Look, water has been a resource that has been plentiful. But now we’ve got climate change, we’ve got population growth, we’ve got widespread groundwater contamination, we’ve got satellites showing us we are d…
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