This Is Water: Thoughts On Living A Compassionate Life
It’s TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust, but I’m breaking with tradition and posting a non-TED talk. It’s an excerpt of a longer commencement address given at Kenyon College in 2005…
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No More “Nice Guy”: Canada’s Democracy & Reputation Tarred
It turns out Canada’s reputation is getting as toxic as the Alberta tar sands tailings ponds: * Some more facts: Canadian federal taxpayers subsidize the oil industry $1.38 billion a…
Canadian Oil Waste Blackens Detroit
* The Koch brothers are about their usual dirty business, this time in Detroit: WINDSOR, Ontario — Assumption Park gives residents of this city lovely views of the Ambassador Bridge…
Goodbye Fossil Fuels: Rejecting Scarcity & Embracing Abundance
It’s TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust, and today’s talk, like last week’s, is from TEDx Sydney. Danny Kennedy,Founder and President of Sungevity. Before starting Sungevity Kennedy spent decades campaigning with…
Harper’s House of Cards Disintegrating Under Weight of Conservative Senators
* We are living in interesting times, as the saying goes. Here in Canada, the house of cards that is the federal Conservative government of Stephen Harper is starting to…
Saturday At The Movies
The first music video made in space, posted earlier this week, stars Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield:
B.C. Votes Against Its Future
I don’t live in Canada’s most westerly province, but I know that British Columbians pride themselves in their slogan, “Beautiful British Columbia”. It is a province of vast wilderness, ancient…
Courage Is Contagious
“What are we waiting for?…There is no passion to be found insettling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living…Standing idly by in the…
We’re All Passengers on The Titanic Now
* Dr. Richard Alley, climatologist, commenting on atmospheric CO2 levels passing an historic 400ppm last week.
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
What if all the mothers in the world united and called for an end to war, to violence towards each other and towards the earth, and pledged to work together…
Saturday At The Movies
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Rolling The Dice: CO2 Concentration Hits Record High Amid Global Inaction On Climate Change
Via The Guardian: The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached 399.72 parts per million (ppm) and is likely to pass the symbolically important 400ppm level for the…
Scientists To Harper Government: It’s Time For Grown Up Conversation on Climate Change
This week twelve climate scientists and energy experts penned a letter to Canada’s Natural Resources (aka “Oil”) Minister, Joe Oliver, to express their concern about his ongoing support for building…
Deconstructing Our Dinner: What’s Wrong With Our Food System
For today’s TED Talk Tuesday, a home-schooled 11 year old deconstructs what’s wrong with our current food system:
Betting The Farm On Hazardous Pipelines With Poor Track Records
* Ready or not, painful or not, we are in the middle of a huge shift from an oil dependent economy to one that is run on renewables, the Great…