20090217-army-solar-panel.jpg Republicans on the U.S. House Armed Services Committee have decided that the military’s push for clean, renewable energy has gone far enough, and have proposed for next year’s budget that the Pentagon not spend a dime on renewable energy sources that cost more than traditional dirty energy. This news
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350 or bust: Thirty Minutes To Change Your World
The Spring of Sustainability is a three-month series of events that allows callers to interact directly with world-class visionaries by phone or webcast, for free. Since the end of March, this amazing series has brought visionaries like Vandana Shiva, Hunter Lovins, John Robbins, and Van Jones to people all over
Continue reading350 or bust: TED Talk Thursday: The Wisdom Of Cradle To Cradle Design
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
Continue reading350 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: A Message From Mother
Found on Facebook today: * Get your MOM the BEST present ever for mother’s day… steward your soil, nurture nature, compost your waste, remediate local contamination, share with the innocent and the needy, teach virtues, coordinate with your neighbors and local friends and actively prioritize implementing energy systems that are
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 readingearthgauge: Earthgauge Radio May 10: Pedal power! The two-wheeled revolution is coming…
Download: earthgauge-radio-podcast-may10-2012.mp3 On Earthgauge Radio this week, we’re talking bikes. After all, May is Bike to Work month so I have three cycling-related interviews for you on today’s program: Jess Wells, Program Coordinator at Envirocentre, which is coordinating activities for Ottawa Bike to Work month. Caron Cheng of Mountain Equipment
Continue readingearthgauge: May is Bike to Work month in Ottawa!
In case you’re looking for additional reasons to jettison your car and haul out the bike, the video below from EnviroCentre Ottawa makes a convincing case. Save money, improve your health, help reduce pollution, the list goes on (and on). May is Bike to Work month so let’s get to
Continue reading350 or bust: Water: A Wake Up Call
If you drink water, Last Call At the Oasis is a movie you should see, according to film critic Christopher Campbell. The movie …presents a powerful argument for why the global water crisis will be the central issue facing our world this century. Illuminating the vital role water plays in
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: New Song: "The Ballad of Steve Harper"
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I done it again. Here’s a new song all about Steve Harper set to the tune of the Beverly Hillbillies theme song. The Ballad of Steve HarperCome and listen to my story ’bout a man named SteveSneaky politician, dirty…
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: New Song: "The Ballad of Steve Harper"
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I done it again. Here’s a new song all about Steve Harper set to the tune of the Beverly Hillbillies theme song. The Ballad of Steve Harper Come and listen to my story ’bout a man named SteveSneaky politician, dirty tricks up his sleeveThe oil
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: New Song: "The Ballad of Steve Harper"
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, I done it again. Here’s a new song all about Steve Harper set to the tune of the Beverly Hillbillies theme song. The Ballad of Steve Harper Come and listen to my story ’bout a man named SteveSneaky politician, dirty tricks up his sleeveThe oil
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: American Lung Association Releases 2012 State of the Air Report
state of the air 2012.jpg The American Lung Association (ALA) released their annual State of the Air report today, followed by a live discussion on Twitter where the organization answered questions. While the report offers some positive news for American citizens, it also shows us that the Clean Air Act
Continue reading350 or bust: Grassroots Democracy Initiative Organized in Face of Federal Government’s Love Affair With Dirty Energy
The following is a re-post from Anthony Marr’s HomosapiensSaveYourEarth blog. Mr. Marr has a degree in physics and is a long-time advocate for living more sustainably and gently on our earth. In 1996, he led “the highest-profile anti-trophy-hunting campaign in Canada” (Globe and Mail), and went on to found Heal
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: Earth Day: Carl Sagan On Global Warming
Via Climate Crocks, Carl Sagan on global warming on Earth Day 19990. Note that Sagan’s C02 numbers reflect the 1990 numbers, not current ones. And when he says that the U.S. generates 21% of the gasses that are responsible for greenhouse effect, he means the extra gases that contribute to atmospheric
Continue readingLeDaro: I am an astronaut
Does that surprise anybody? I have been an astronaut all my life enjoying the ride on a special spaceship which travels in space constantly. The name of that spaceship is earth. Hence all creatures on this spaceship are astronauts. This spaceship has survived for billions of years and is still
Continue reading350 or bust: A Plea For The Future Of Life
“Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.” ― Percy Bysshe Shelley I’ve been away on holidays for the last 10 days, but the Canadian government and its soul mates south
Continue reading350 or bust: My Country?
Inspired by images of Tahltan women blockading Shell in defense of the Sacred Headwaters in northern British Columbia, Rachelle Van Zanten wrote ‘My Country’. She was invited to perform it for the Tahltan people at the Iskut Music Festival a year later, where this video was filmed. One of the
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
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