I’m still up to my ears in hugelkulturing, and hope to share my photos and experience soon. In the meantime, here’s architect William McDonough, co-author of Cradle To Cradle: Remaking The Way We Make Things, discusses what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account “all
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350 or bust: “Our Answer To Enbridge Is NO”
Ta’Kaiya, 10, lives in North Vancouver and is from the Sliammon First Nation. She traveled on the Yinka Dene Alliance Freedom Train that recently crossed Canada to raise awareness of the threat posed By Enbridge’s tar sands pipeline through coastal First Nations territory. Here she is performing a song she
Continue reading350 or bust: Northern Gateway Pipeline: Not A Pretty Picture
Renowned Canadian artist Robert Bateman speaks out against the Northern Gateway Pipeline: * Sign the petition at: http://www.notankers.ca
Continue reading350 or bust: Economist Arrested At Coal Protest: This Has To Stop, Our Window To Act On Climate Change Closing
12 protestors were arrested during a day-long protest in White Rock, B.C. that blocked coal trains from reaching port. Among the protestors was leading environmental economist and Simon Fraser University Professor Mark Jaccard, who issued this statement earlier this week: This Saturday, May 5, at dawn I’m joining other British
Continue reading350 or bust: Freedom Train to Canadians: Our Democratic Process Is Being Lost
Yinka Dene Alliance Freedom Train arrived in Winnipeg last night. The Alliance is on a cross Canada trip that will end in Toronto, on Bay Street, at the Enbridge AGM. Their goal is to spread the word to Canadians about the dangers posed by the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline
Continue reading350 or bust: Connecting the Dots: Extreme Weather, First Nations Rights, And Our Addiction To Dirty Energy
There’s so much going on in the climate change world these days, it’s hard to keep up. This Saturday is 350.org’s Connect The Dots event, where thousands of people across the globe will gather to protest, educate, document and volunteer to support the communities on the front lines of the
Continue reading350 or bust: For My Grandchildren
From the March 2012 TED Conference in Long Beach California, NASA climate scientist Dr. James Hansen speaks about why he must speak out climate change. A powerful and moving video – please watch, and share with your family and friends, and on social media. * Do you want to become
Continue reading350 or bust: Super Hero Leaps For Climate Action
Last year a hole had to be cut in the ice to allow us to leap, but for the second annual Leap in Red Lake For Climate Action, the lake was ice-free after the earliest break up on record. The event is sponsored by the local Green Committee in partnership
Continue reading350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
For Earth Day, this prayer is reposted from May 13, 2010, nearly a month after the BP oil gusher started spewing oil into the beautiful Gulf of Mexico: T. Thorn Coyle blogs at Thorncoyle.com on her thoughts on practice, philosophy, politics and love. She wrote A Prayer For My Beloved
Continue reading350 or bust: Have We Learned Anything Yet?
It was two years ago today that the sea-floor started gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico after an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which was working on a BP oil project. Tragically, the explosion killed 11 men working on the platform and injured 17 others. It started a flow
Continue reading350 or bust: Resilience And Hope In Extraordinary Times
The Transition movement has produced a movie about growing community and hope in these difficult times: In Transition 2.0 is the new film from Transition Network, capturing inspiring stories of Transition initiatives around the world, responding to uncertain times with creativity, solutions and ‘engaged optimism’. * More links: In Transition
Continue reading350 or bust: A Sane Response to Collective Insanity
My version of the old adage nothing is certain but death and taxes is that the only thing we know for sure is that things will change. That’s true for this blog, too; I’m still undecided on what direction, if any this blog should take in the future. This reflects
Continue reading350 or bust: The Earth Is Full
For TED talk Tuesday, here’s Paul Gilding, author of The Great Disruption: Why Climate Change Will Bring About The End of Shopping And the Birth of A New World. At TED 2012 Gilding addressed the issue of whether or not we humans have used up all our resources. While the first
Continue reading350 or bust: Enbridge Pipeline Panel Frightened By Singing & Drumming Pipeline Opposition
In a bizarre turn of events, the Enbridge Pipeline hearings were suspended in Bella Bella in northern British Columbia yesterday after the panel members expressed concerns about their safety. This development seems curious, as the Joint Review panel members have the full weight of the federal government behind them, and
Continue reading350 or bust: Solar Energy Spill Alert
The billboard picture below has been making the rounds on Facebook recently. The billboard’s source is votesolar.org, whose mission is to bring solar energy into the mainstream. Just substitute “Canada” or “the world” for “America” in the paragraph below, from Vote Solar’s website: Think of America’s problems. Global warming. Air
Continue reading350 or bust: Harper’s Budget: Fossil Fuel Subsidies Maintained, Conservation Groups Targeted
While I’ve been traveling in southern Ontario this past week, with little time to spend on the internet, it seems that I and my fellow Canadians have fallen down the rabbit hole. With the warmest March on the record books coming to a close after decades of scientific warnings about
Continue reading350 or bust: Climate Change Conspiracy Revealed
* Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America: Expert Credibility In Climate Change Open Secrets: Senator James Inhofe, Top Industry Funders
Continue reading350 or bust: Obama: It’s Time To End Subsidies To Big Oil
In President Obama’s address last week, he made it clear that it’s time America ends the $4 billion in annual subsidies to oil companies that are earning historic profits, and invests in new technologies. Prime Minister Harper, are you listening? In 2009 PM Harper promised to end subsidies to big
Continue reading350 or bust: The Harper Government’s “Friends With Benefits”
In September 2009, at the G20 summit, Prime Minister Stephen Harper joined world leaders in committing to end government handouts to climate polluters. But the Harper government is still paying Canadian taxpayer’s money to the richest corporations in the world, at the rate of $1.38 BILLION per YEAR, which works
Continue reading350 or bust: Ethical Oil: The Puppet Rap
This Saturday gem comes from creative folks over at The Tyee: Why is everybody all bitchin’ bout the bitumen? Don’t you like rich men turnin’ into richer men? Solomon, whose agenda you followin? Typical liberal lamestream politics! Crackdown in Iran? Those Ayatollahs should park it! Monks burnin’ in Sichuan? well
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