Monday Musings
Although today’s title suggests that I might be taking the time to write some insightful lines about the state of the world this morning, in fact I’m not feeling up…
Christine
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
“We can sum it up in one sentence: Our technical civilization has just reached its greatest level of savagery. We will have to choose, in the more or less near…
The Harper Government’s Approach To Scientists: Control The Pests
* Although Rick Mercer treats the current situation regarding control of scientists and their tax-payer funded research in Canada with humour, unfortunately it is no laughing matter when the government…
In Honour of International Women’s Day, Let’s Stop Harming and Start Helping
It’s International Women’s Day, a good time to reflect on the fact that women around the globe are, and will be in the future, disproportionately affected by the effects of…
Little Shop Of Horrors
In honour of my dentist appointment today, here’s Steve Martin singing the “Dentist Song” from Little Shop Of Horrors (with my apologies to all the lovely and compassionate dentists out…
It’s Time To Move On
It’s time to move on. Our country, and all of us, need to move from a fossil fuel past to a renewable energy future. The mood in Britain has turned…
Canada’s Decline: Election Fraud & PetroState Politics
Wow. Where does a progressive Canadian climate blogger get started on this Monday morning? Political developments in this wonderful country have been snowballing into a bigger and bigger mess for…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
“Guard your light and protect it. Move it forward into the world and be fully confident that if we connect light to light to light, and join the lights together…
Genocide Awareness Project Straight to Your Mail!
Desperate time call for desperate measures… If you live in Calgary, it is possible that you received a postcard with a GAP image (and no, I don’t mean a slim,…
Saturday At The Movies
This ad is for a newly launched cell phone of NTT Docomo, the largest cell phone service provider in Japan. The shell of the new phone is wood from domestic…
A Message Of Hope and Love
Isobel Springett was interviewed on CBC Radio’s The Current on Wednesday morning. As I’m away from my computer and the internet for a few days, here’s some videos that Isobel…
TED Talk Thursday: How To Survive Peak Oil & Climate Change
There is an effective response to the climate crisis. In this TED Talk from 2009, Rob Hopkins speaks about a practical and inspiring solution to the challenges of peak oil…
Cap & Trade Benefits Big Polluters And Even Bigger Banks
In order to address the challenge of climate change, pricing carbon pollution is necessary. Capping carbon pollution and creating a carbon market has been proposed as a method of doing…
Going Local: A Powerful Strategy To Repair Our Fractured World, Our Ecosystems & Ourselves.
Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face: fundamentalism and ethnic…
We’ve Been Messin’ Where We Shouldn’t Have Been A-Messin’
Climate change, You Scary: In which Hank Green details the five scariest things that will likely happen because of climate change. * Find the Sci Show: Where the science goes…
Spoil: The Great Bear Rainforest Under Threat From Enbridge Pipeline
My weekend in Winnipeg ended with an evening at the Park Theatre listening to Nathan Cullen, an NDP Member of Parliament who is running for the leadership of his party.…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
“I must confess, my friends, the road ahead will not always be smooth. There will be still rocky places of frustration and meandering points of bewilderment. There will be inevitable…
Anti-science Lobby Group Funded By Polluters Writes “Global Warming Curriculum” For Schools
The Heartland Institute’s President and CEO just admitted that Heartland is writing a “global warming curriculum” that would say climate science isn’t settled. Heartland would like to create the appearance…
No Comment: “Pro-Life Pharmacist”
Being a pharmacy student is tough. Being a pro-life pharmacy student is even tougher. I am accused of making things up and I am always told that what we dispense…