Corn: feeding our cars rather than our species.
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DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Thich Nhat Hanh and David Suzuki on How Individual Frame of Mind Has Everything To Do With Saving the Planet
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Getting people to believe that they really can make a difference in the struggle to the save the planet from human folly can be just as important as encouraging them to take action, ac…
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Perry and the World
Rick Perry has again proven that he doesn’t believe in global warming. He thinks that just because the world has proven time and time again strange weather and heating climate is just “manipulated data.” Maybe Rick Perry is talking about the Bush admin…
Continue readingwmtc: "we work to buy things that are built to die so that we must work to buy more things that will break"
Two weeks ago, my coffee maker broke. It was a electric percolator (I wrote about my preference for it here), made by Cuisinart. It’s the third such percolator I’ve had in a six-year span. One day they just stop working.I purchased this particular coff…
Continue readingThings Are Good: A Game That Protects Nature
A new FAcebook game has been launched that allows you to help the planet while you play. It’s called MyConservationPark and it’s made by Good World Games.
MyConservationPark is a socially conscious Facebook game that places you in charge of building and managing a protected wildlife reserve. Create and sustain a livable habitat for your […]
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: S&P Downgrades Planet Earth, Citing Unbalanced Carbon Budget, Reckless Political Debates and Role of “Deniers”
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Washington, D.C.—In a move that came as a shock both in this city and throughout the planet on which it is located, Standard & Poor’s late M…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.
– The Halifax Chronicle Herald pushes back against the Cons’ and Libs’ anti-Bloc witch-hunt:
For partisan reasons, involvement with the Bloc has become a game of political football. The Tories and Grits feel …
Blast Furnace Canada Blog: Enter stage right — WAY right — Rick Perry
Just as former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty — probably the only guy who’s close enough to the centre that he could actually beat Barack Obama in next year’s presidential race — withdrew his candidacy, current Texas governor Rick Perry announced he…
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: When Beavers Abandon Their Dam: Heron Pond, South March Highlands
This summer a breach in the dam at Heron Pond in the South March Highland was discovered that appeared to be a natural occurrence. In such cases the beavers will usually repair the dam, but this did not happen and it appears they have abandoned the dam…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: NY university names David Miller a city-building fellow
CTV Toronto – NY university names Miller a city-building fellow – CTV NewsFrom One Toronto:Rob Ford, a Mayor without VisionToronto residents should be proud to have our former mayor, David Miller, recognized as a city builder. From Transit City, to cle…
Continue readingthe reeves report: DNA evidence enough to cause concern over invasive Asian Carp
This past week, a multi-agency fishing expedition got underway looking for Asian Carp west of Lake Michigan in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. After catching a 19-pound Asian Carp (which is actually an umbrella term for up to nine difference species of carp introduced to North America from Asia) in Lake Calumet in Chicago … Continue reading »
The Liberal Scarf: Proud to be a clean, green Ontarian
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Great blog posted by the great Hillary Buchan-Terrell on her experiences as an Ontario Young Liberal in Copenhagen and how Ontario Liberal plans and ideas are creating green job…
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Solving Urbandale’s Beaver Pond Forest Subdivision Marketing Dilemma
The normal method of promoting house sales by telling buyers their houses will be close to the wilderness of the South March Highlands probably isn’t going to work for Urbandale, because reminding potential buyers that they just clear cut the Beaver Po…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material to end your weekend.- Floyd Norris’ column on the gap between stagnant wages and soaring corporate profits. But let’s add Digby’s take as to what we can expect if the corporate sector gets its way:”I’ve never seen labor markets t…
Continue readingwmtc: moby duck sails into the sunset
I’ve finished reading Moby Duck by Donovan Hohn, one of the very best books I’ve read in some time. In earlier posts about this book (here and here), I said it is about the permanence of plastic and the poisoning of the ocean, along withthe “marginaliz…
Continue readingthe reeves report: The Politics of Wind Power: Liberals look to ‘John Tory’ Tim Hudak
The Ontario Liberals sent a message to the future this week: it warned Conservative Premier Tim Hudak that if he wants to keep his absurd, long-standing promise to put a moratorium on all wind turbine farms in Ontario, that he would have to do it at the expense of taxpayer dollars and well-paying jobs in … Continue reading »
Art Threat: A crushing defeat for gas guzzlers? – Friday Film Pick: Lithuanian mayor crushes car blocking bike lane
Arturas Zuokas, the mayor of Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius has come out in strong opposition to cars parked in bike paths on roads.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted and environmentally-themed content to end your week.- Lloyd Alter highlights the Cons’ contrasting treatment of environmental scientists (who are being fired in droves) and oil lobbyists (who figure never to lack for work).- And allies around …
Continue readingTrashy's World: Ahhhhh…
…man, I love this country…
And the Harperites can’t ruin this part of it at least.
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Continue readingTrashy's World: Do any cloud geeks read this blog?
If so, could someone tell me what kind of cool clouds these be?
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