We’ve seen DIY iPod solar chargers before and now an Ottawa-based company has produced a consumer one. The PowerTrip is a small battery with a USB jack and a solar panel on it.
Enter the PowerTrip, from Ottawa-based Ecosol. In a package about the size of a deck of cards, the PowerTrip houses a battery […]
Recreating Eden: Seven Million: How to Make the World a Better Place
The last few days the rapidly increasing numbers of humans have been getting a lot of press, probably well-merited. The New York Times had an interesting story yesterday about a campaign to link birth rates in the developed world with species extincti…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading – with an economic fairness theme.- John Burton highlights Saskatchewan’s ownership of its own potash resources – pointed out so frequently by Brad Wall in opposing BHP Billiton’s bid for PCS – as being exactly th…
Continue reading350 or bust: Now For The Real Scary Stuff
All Hallow’s Eve is over for this year and tomorrow, in many countries, is the Day of the Dead or All Souls’ Day. So today might be a good day to focus on what is really alarming: the Climate Zombies that hang around year-round in Washington an…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Making Global Warming Official
There has been a lot of reluctance to link global warming to the spate of severe weather events our world has experienced in recent years. Nobody wants to tie specific weather events to climate change because, well because they’re weather e…
Continue readingThe #Occupy movement and the U.S. party system: a prescription?
It is telling that our founders recognized the need for a semblance of democratic governance, if only to establish the legitimacy of the regime they established. This is why capitalists and their political representatives have always…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On diversions
It should come as no surprise that the Globe and Mail’s ongoing paean to high-end charitable tax breaks is apparently linked to a request from the Harper Cons. But perhaps more noteworthy is the fact that the Cons are commandeering the agenda of the Ho…
Continue readingTrashy's World: I want to participate in Movember!
I really do!
But what is the protocol for someone who is already bearded / moustached? Should I shave them off and start over? I’m assuming that is the case.
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Continue readingcartoon life: The landscape exhibition #8
Filed under: art, design, digital, painting Tagged: art, collage, digital, iPad, landscape, painting
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: CBC belongs to Rob Ford, too by Janice Kennedy
Columnist says we have a stake in ensuring that the CBC remains true to its
mandate, something it can only do when it’s supported, in spirit and in
fiscal fact, by most Canadians.
The Sir Robert Bond Papers: SRBP’s Shocktober Traffic
Kent demoted by Dunderdale CBC torques poll coverage Here’s what an opposition party looks like Telelink releases campaign’s only independent poll Whither the Liberals Astroturf Muskrat Falls support plummets: poll Whe…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Shoot ’em if You’re Got Your Ruger Mini-14 Semi-automatic Rifle With You
The Reformers’ scrapping of the gun registry was never about farmers. Never. When Stephen Harper drafted their policy back in the day, it was about creating what they called a “Canadian gun culture”. Tom Flanagan stated that Harper on…
Continue readingFar and Wide: Ranking NDP Candidates: Liberal Prospects Edition
To my mind, the NDP have a terrific opportunity with this leadership contest, if they get it right, Liberals have much to worry about. On the other hand, choosing the wrong person could provide the political space required for a Liberal resurgence. M…
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for November 1, 2011
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for the first day of November, 2011:
Lawyer retained to help City to fight info requests – Toronto Starhttp://bit.ly/d62xgF
Marriage fraud targeted by Canada border agencyhttp://bit.ly/…
A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Advance Quotes!
[A]stonishing, shocking, loving…Step into this novel and you will find yourself submerged; wake from it, and you will find yourself transformed. Web of Angels is a rare gift, perfectly named; within this novel, Lilian Nattel has offered us the work, the weave, of angels. An important book. Groundbreaking, demanding, brave and beautiful. Unforgettable fiction. Brilliant. […]
Continue readingImmunity and impunity in elite America – Opinion – Al Jazeera English
An excellent article. Thanks to my good buddy Rob Gray for sending this to me. Immunity and impunity in elite America – Opinion – Al Jazeera English. Filed under: Progressives
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The People They Refuse To See
As Stephen Harper jets off to Cannes, trumpeting his government’s economic performance, someone should follow him with a copy of the latest Food Banks Canada Report. That report, which was released today, contains some very disturbing numbers:Mor…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Does Postmedia need paywalls or headstones
In his NY Times blog, economist Paul Krugman focused attention on one of the frequently repugnant think-tanks that serves America’s one-percenters. In Denial In Depth, Krugman applauds Ryan Chittum at the Columbia Journalism Review for:
“… a takedown…
Art Threat: Engaged devotion and care – The terrariums of Paula Hayes
It might be because I just started paying attention, but it seems to me that terrariums are on the rise. These delicate glass globes filled with tiny gardens are like nature sent to earth from space. As we become more aware of our impact on the environment, it’s almost as through we have taken a […]
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