Canada is the maple leaf, the United States of America is the stars, one is modest and pragmatic, the other is idealized and constant. National symbols are chosen to represent countries, but somehow countries cannot help but represent their national symbols. For the religious and industrious United States of America
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I just wanted to share this with all of you. My friend Gwen sent it to me, and it’s awesome. Look for the baby at 2.38.
Continue reading350 or bust: BlackOutSpeakOut
I’m speaking out in defence of nature and democracy #BLACKOUTSPEAKOUT.
Continue reading350 or bust: Why I’m Speaking Out In Defence Of Two Core Canadian Values, Nature & Democracy
On Monday, I will be joining the BlackOutSpeakOut campaign, and joining a committed group of organizations representing millions of Canadians who are darkening our websites in protest against the efforts of the Harper government to silence our voices. The BlackOutSpeakOut website describes this action this way: Right now, Parliament is
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: True North Strong and Free – Road Trip Politics
A political map of Canada… So, if you follow me on twitter you’ll know, in a relative amount of detail, that I recently traveled across part of Northern Canada from Winnipeg to Toronto. In case you were wondering, my Southern-Ontario kin…this is a stunning, amazing, beautiful, energizing, formidable part of Canada that
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: No Nature-Deficit Disorder For Conor In Fredericton,The Green City
Conor enjoying some time at the Saint John River All photos were taken within a short walking distance from our home in Fredericton, New Brunswick The Green City My younger son Conor, 16, suffers from severe Autistic Disorder. He does not, however, suffer from Nature-Deficit Disorder in part because of
Continue readingWildlife flourishes in human dead zones
We all know what the big problem with planet Earth is—people. Homo sapiens. The most destructive of species. Ever since we walked out of Africa 70,000 years ago, we have been an enemy of nature. Long before we invented agriculture, we were annihilating other species. The only big land animals
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: A Genetic Justification For Liberalism
It’s little wonder that liberalism endorses science when no other ideology is more endorsed by it. Foundational liberal principles have been recently strengthened by new research, solidifying the ideology not just in abstract philosophy but empirically in human nature. The liberal belief in equality and that government has a role
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The World We Are Willfully Destroying
Last year, I wrote a post on the power of the documentary. In it, I discussed how a good nature documentary can very powerfully help us to see both the wonders of the world and how we are destroying that world. Last night I watched the show Nature on PBS.
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Who’s Tired of Double Standards?
So, as I wrote this title, I realized that this post could have been referring to just about anything, so let me clarify: I’m talking about the double standard we’re witnessing in the debate regarding environmental organizations accepting some international funding.I was talking to my friend who runs a great blog over
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Vitamin D – Where the "D" Stands for Awesome Weather
Good morning fair readers…and how are you feeling this morning? I bet I know the answer: you’re feeling great!Most of my audience is Canadian, and so they are right now, as I write this, taking part in a hallowed and honoured Canadian tradition: the realization that while winter may suck,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Canadian Conservative – The Anti-Science Crusade Continues…
Hey, you in the lab coat. Stop your filthy science right now, I have policy to fabricate! If Steven Harper was a puppy, he would be getting a firm “NO” and a being ignored right now when it comes to his views on science and the dissemination of scientific knowledge
Continue reading350 or bust: Saturday At The Movies
It’s the weekend; hopefully you, dear reader, can kick back and relax with family and friends and recharge your batteries (in an environmentally-friendly way, of course). Here’s the Saturday short, a cat who scratches its itch in a curiously human-like manner: *And remember, today is Twitter Blackout Day, in response
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A very moving video showing the deep emotional bond between a gorilla and the man who raised him:
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A magical chance encounter with an amazing natural phenomena, a “murmuration” of starlings:
Continue readingLeDaro: Ibn- Arabi and Whirling Dervishes of Turkey
I have written many times before that life is very complex and human intelligence has serious limitations to understand it. We still fully have not understood the complexity of an atom. Yes we made atom bombs and killed fellow humans but many elements …
Continue reading350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
Exhale…. Underworld – Oblivion with Bells
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Counterpoint on Shale Gas and the Future of Fracking
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Recently the peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature published a ‘pros vs. cons’ piece on the production of unconventional gas from shale. The…
Continue reading350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well – for we will not fight to save what we do not love. ~Stephen Jay Gould
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