Maybe It’s Time to Get Out of Dodge
This was bound to happen. Inevitable. American cellular giant Verizon has filed a patent application for a device to watch you watching TV. Who is interested in watching you watch…
December 2012
Monckton Banned From UN Climate Process For Offensive Stunt
Christopher Monckton, Lord Crazypants of Brenchley, made a fool of himself today at COP18 in Doha, Qatar by impersonating a delegate in a plenary session. He was immediately debadged and…
One of My All-Time Favourite YouTube Clips
Maybe he just needed a haircut.
Living Democracy from the Ground Up: Why Local Voices Matter
Thursday, December 6, 2012 Living Democracy from the Ground Up is a mini-documentary series produced by West Coast Environmental Law that takes an up close and personal look and the…
Anniversay of the Poly Massacre: Not a Time to Think about Weakening Gun Control
“A monument was built to the young women not far from the site of the massacre, just off the university campus. … There are benches around the edge the park,…
Earthgauge Radio December 6 2012: Over the climate cliff! Special program on the Doha Climate Change Conference
Download: earthgauge-podcast-dec6-2012.mp3 This week on Earthgauge Radio, it’s our Doha Climate Change Conference special broadcast. We have several features on the program today: On the ground reporting and news from…
National Day of Remembrance & Action On Violence Against Women
Sometime after 4 p.m. on December 6, 1989, an enraged gunman roamed the corridors of Montreal’s École Polytechnique and killed 14 women. He separated the men from the women and…
Gutting Canada’s environmental laws = increased litigation
Thursday, December 6, 2012 Almost a year ago, Natural Resources Minister, Joe Oliver, made an unfounded accusations that environmental organizations were adopting "a quintessential American approach: sue everyone and anyone…
The Web We Weave When We Practice to Deceive
“We are not muzzling scientists.” – Peter Kent, Canada’s Environment Minister. I shook my head reading Margaret Munro’s Weekend Vancouver Sun article on freedom of information documents that caught Canada’s…
NGOs Make Emergency Appeal in Doha
Greenpeace, Oxfam, WWF, Christian Aid, Action Aid and Friends of the Earth have issued an emergency appeal for immediate and forceful action by the delegations at the Doha climate summit.…
Remembering the massacre
On December 6, 1989, I was on holiday in Arizona, spending a week by myself driving around the Navajo and Hopi reservations. I kept the car radio on a local…
Einstein’s Estimation of the Age of the Universe
According to Einstein, when objects approach very near the speed of light (one of the boundary conditions of the universe) the passage of time will slow, among other bizarre effects.…
December 6th, 1989
Where were you? I will never forget. I was in my first year of law school in Windsor and watched this, or maybe it was a CTV report, on the…
The Moon Goes Commercial? Maybe, Maybe Not.
A company calling itself Golden Spike has announced it will start commercial moon travel service by 2020. The company will take people and gear to the lunar surface and back…
Bounce Baird
Click or double click the gif
A Minimalist Generational Movement
Consumerism takes a huge toll on our planet and out pocketbooks and one generation raised in a consumerist culture has opted out. Many in the generation following Gen-X have realized…
‘Power & Energy’ Subject of Intergenerational Dialogue in Vancouver
Vancouver-based Gen Why Media and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives are co-hosting an “intergenerational dialogue” in Vancouver on Tuesday, December 11 to explore various existing and proposed energy projects…
Mike Gravelle endorses Pupatello!
“I’ve made it very clear that I would be supporting the person who would best represent the interests of the North, and I think Sandra is that person.”
SaskPower: At Least 13 Years Out of Touch
I’m sorry Canada, and the world. I’ve tried to convince my province’s public utility that there are huge benefits from dialing down the reliance on coal burned electricity, but they…