This and that for your Thursday reading.- Andrew Jackson points out and sums up a Statistics Canada study showing how much possible revenue is lost to the underground economy:Statscan have produced interesting and important new estimates of the upper b…
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Things Are Good: Stove Man Turns up the Heat
Stoves can make a world of difference in places that rely extensively on old-school resource like wood and cow patties. Using an efficient stove can save trees from being felled and limit the amount of pollutants released during the cooking process.
Here’s episode one of Stove Man made by the Paradigm Project:
Episode 1: Woodwalk from The […]
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Let’s get Real On Climate Change!
Many people like to point to the oil companies for the blame of Climate change, but households contribute to 45% of all emissions. That means if we wish to achieve the goal most climate scientist say will help us avoid disaster we need to reduce househ…
Continue readingthe reeves report: Army 2040: First Look moves away from humanity vs. The Environment outlook
I feel as though every decade in North America another article, report, or paper emerges in which The Environment (note the capital letters) is pitted as public enemy number one. The latest of such reports was issued just recently by the Canadian Armed Forces entitled Army 2040: First Look, which sounds like an awful Michael … Continue reading »
the reeves report: Feature: Questions remain on the future of eco fees in Ontario
It’s not often I sympathize with Tim Hudak and the Conservative Party of Ontario, but on the future of eco fees, they have their work cut out for them. To recap, last summer, the Liberal government in Ontario introduced an eco fee on select electronics and household hazardous materials, which was Phase 1 of a … Continue reading »
wmtc: handmade soaps, equal marriage, and stop the tar sands: i discover lush
As part of my work for the video surveillance project, I was wandering around the Square One mall, when I saw this sign in the window of Lush.I went inside to ask for more information: there was a petition, a postcard drive, and an excellent pamphlet f…
Continue reading350 or bust: Wrecking This Place Down: How Do We Protect Our Children In An Age of Environmental Crisis?
Sandra Steingraber is a mother, a biologist, a cancer-survivor, and the author of several books on the dangers we are facing from the environmental toxins that surround us. Her most recent book, “Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in An Age …
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Tim Hudak vs. your wallet (and his own caucus)
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/06/27/tories-eye-eco-tax-on-electronicsTim Hudak showed his recklessness with his flip-flops on the HST (Going from being in favour of it, to wanting to scrap it, to saying he would reduce it, to now keeping it), health c…
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Is It Really a Win?
Canada managed to keep asbestos off the hazardous list. We in Canada don’t use asbestos, because it’s not safe enough for us, but we are glad to continue to export this material to India where we assume it’s being used “properly”. We are one of the onl…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Coal Ash Disposal Sites Contaminating Ground Water In 19 States
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The Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) has released a new report showing that coal ash disposal sites are threatening water supplies at 33 sites located in 19 different states acros…
Continue readingTrashy's World: Friday, er, Saturday miscellany
OK. I didn’t get to the Friday Miscellany thing yesterday. My bad.
I was golfing in the afternoon – and dodging lightning – and had to work like the dickens to get some stuff done in the morning and over lunch so I didn’t get the chance to finish my Friday post! Gimme a break, will […]
Things Are Good: Solar-Powered Wineries
Wine is good for you and can improve many aspects of your health. The wine-making process can be very intense on local ecologies due to the farming methods and shipping involved. Some wineries are looking to sustainable and responsible ways to create their wines.
Here’s one of a few wineries using solar power, catch four […]
Trashy's World: Anyone that claims that climate change…
… is a buncha crap, should consider this forecast for Inuvik.
Yes, this is “weather” as opposed to “climate”. I know the concepts and terminology very well…. but if these patterns persist, then there will be some major social, economic and biological upheavals in the North.
And I don’t believe we or any other polar nation is […]
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Mountaintop Removal Mining Linked To Birth Defects
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Researchers at Washington State University and West Virginia University have released a new report that links an increase in birth defects in Appalachia to the pra…
Continue readingwmtc: harper government brings (more) international shame on canada, and kills untold numbers in the process
The Globe and Mail, emphasis mine:Standing Alone, Canada blocks push to label asbestos a hazardous chemical Canada has single-handedly blocked listing chrysotile asbestos as a hazardous chemical, the United Nations confirmed Wednesday, even as the Cons…
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Announcing Kanata’s Paradise Lost – World’s First World Heritage Subdivision
The following is a fable, but like all fables it contains hidden (and not so hidden) truths.Yes, for the first, and undoubtedly last time in the world, you can own a house on a World Heritage Site. Only in Ottawa, the world’s “Developers Rule Capital” …
Continue readingThings Are Good: TerraCycle Helps Schools Recycle and Learn
TerraCycle is a company that wants us to rethink waste. They collect materials that would be sent to landfills and use them to create new products thereby creating less waste filling up the landfills.
Here in Canada they have been quite successful with their school programs – and have given money back to schools that […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Ocean Breakdown
Its been nice knowing (almost) all of you. The tiny bits of plastic at the bottom of the ocean poisoning the food chain, and the floaty bits on top of it in the garbage patch choking the birds and dolphins ought to finish us all off in about 50 years or less. If there was […]
Blast Furnace Canada Blog: Hudak’s hopes that we have short memories …
This fall’s election in Ontario is going to be pretty exciting if for no other reason than two of the three candidates for Premier represent Hamilton districts. Andrea Horwath represents Hamilton Centre (most of downtown and a chunk of the West …
Continue reading350 or bust: Bangladesh Surpasses Solar Energy Goal of One Million Homes, Sets New Target
I’ve declared today to be “Good News Friday” on 350orbust. It doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot of bad news out there, but today we’re going to focus on some feel-good stories to start the weekend off. From a country …
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