Climate Change Lite
This video has nothing to do with climate change, except as a reminder not to lose our sense of humour in these trying times. If it helps, you can imagine…
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Thich Nhat Hanh and David Suzuki on How Individual Frame of Mind Has Everything To Do With Saving the Planet
tnh ds.jpg Getting people to believe that they really can make a difference in the struggle to the save the planet from human folly can be just as important as…
Why We Resist The Truth About Climate Change
While I’m away on a canoe trip this week, I will be posting articles from the 350orbust archives. This was first published in June, 2010. Via “Nothing New Under The…
Cons – in the black helicopter biz since 1951….
Funny cartoon… Share and Enjoy: Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. - The Halifax Chronicle Herald pushes back against the Cons' and Libs' anti-Bloc witch-hunt: For partisan reasons, involvement with the Bloc has become a…
350 or bust 2011-08-15 09:52:06
I can hear the Ministry of Natural Resources helicopter already up in the sky on this hazy Red Lake morning. The smoke from nearby forest fires continues to drift into…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
I believe a blade of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. ~ Walt Whitman
End of the World Curriculum: Armageddon Vs. Global Warming
With tongue firmly in cheek, here’s a recent clip from the satirical news site The Onion: If you’d like to watch more from The Onion on global warming, click…
Dear Prime Minister Harper: Please Stop Blacklisting Environmental Artists and Scientists
Blacklisted Canadian artist Franke James is becoming a mosquito in the ears of the Harper government. Several weeks ago, I wrote about the Harper government’s interference in the European tour…
The Theft Of Our Children’s Future Is A Crime
This week, the world lost a leader in sustainable business practise. Ray Anderson, founder and Chairman of Interface Carpets, passed away on August 8th. After reading Paul Hawkens’ The Ecology…
Civilization Isn’t That Civilized
Those of you who follow this blog will know that my family and I spent last week canoeing in the Woodland Caribou Provincial Park in northern Ontario’s boreal forest. It…
Sunday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material to end your weekend.- Floyd Norris' column on the gap between stagnant wages and soaring corporate profits. But let's add Digby's take as to what we can expect…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
“A good friend is a connection to life, a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.” ~Lois Whyse
Saving A Whale, Saving Ourselves
The oceans are starting to feel the impact of human’s polluting the planet in many different ways, including ocean acidification and the huge garbage patch in the Pacific. Here is…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted and environmentally-themed content to end your week.- Lloyd Alter highlights the Cons' contrasting treatment of environmental scientists (who are being fired in droves) and oil lobbyists (who figure never…
Canada’s GHG commitment problem
For the past decade, Canada’s GHG emission targets were framed by the Kyoto Protocol, in which Canada committed to a 6% reduction in emissions by 2012 relative to 1990 levels…
Shape Up Or Ship Out: A Northern Perspective On Global Warming
Xavier Kataquapit is originally from Attawapiskat, Ontario on the James Bay coast. In his popular newspaper column, Under the Northern Sky, he writes about his experiences as a First Nation…
Nuclear Insurance Fraud
Have you wondered why so many people oppose nuclear power generation when there are so many ads claiming there’s a “nuclear Renaissance” and that it’s “green” or “sustainable” and free…
A Requiem For Planet Earth – And Ourselves
I am getting away from it all, canoeing for a week in beautiful Woodland Caribou Park. In the meantime, enjoy this: From young film maker Vivek Chauhan and naturalists working…
A Week Without Fossil Fuels
Woodland Caribou Provincial Park is a wilderness park located between Red Lake, Ontario and the Manitoba border. As Ontario’s 5th largest provincial park, covering 1.2 million acres (that’s 486,235 hectares)…