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…
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The 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 …
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: On Riots & Anarchists: the Media’s Reactionary Propaganda
Good afternoon Vancouver, how’s your head? The hand-wringing and spinning has commenced in full force now in the wake of the riot which gripped the downtown core after the Canucks Game 7 loss. The narrative which emerged, both in the media and thanks to public statements by the Vancouver Police, is that—are you ready for […]
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Thinking About Sustainable Cities
– Your lawn can’t legally look like this? People are understandably mystified by some of the things I do, they have different outlooks on life. When they see a TV in the garbage they think, “Someone upgraded to a Plasma,” while I think, “There’s a few more pounds of lead to leach into drinking water.” […]
wmtc: the true cost of tomatoes, or slavery and poverty continue to haunt the fast-food industry, and how you can help
I have blogged several times about the horrific conditions endured by the people who pick tomatoes in Immokalee, Florida, working for fast-food giants like Burger King, Taco Bell and McDonald’s, and supermarket giants like Kroger, Stop & Shop, Whole Fo…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Deep thought
I won’t claim to have compiled a full list of criticisms of the Cons’ government. But I’m pretty sure that putting too many resources into environmental priorities would rank rather near the bottom.
Continue readingImpolitical: Go Canucks…and a few other things
It’s the big Canucks game day and all so people are likely not going to be very interested in Canadian politics. But some big things are happening that bear mentioning.
First of all, the ludicrous situation with how the two strike actions going on in …
Continue readingthe reeves report: NDP wakes up to hypocrisy of asbestos mining and export from Quebec
CBC is reporting through the Access to Information Act, that the Harper government rejected a 2006 recommendation from Health Canada to support a global ban on asbestos. Health Canada suggested that the government reverse their previous commitment to keep asbestos off the UN list of banned hazardous materials, and Harper refused. The 2006 Rotterdam Convention … Continue reading »
Accidental Deliberations: Up for debate
The NDP has released a first look at the prioritized resolutions from this weekend’s #vancon2011 (PDF). And while most of them may not come as too much surprise (or appear particularly controversial), there are a few which look highly noteworthy in dev…
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