Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jonathan Lambert discusses how politicized messages have been used to weaponize uncertainty and changing information during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Jonathan…
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Guest Post: Researcher Regan Boychuk digs deep into the history of the RStar scheme
Like other commentators, in the past few weeks I’ve paid a lot of attention to the United Conservative Party’s so-called RStar scheme to forgive multibillion dollar oil corporations at least…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – E. Wesley Ely discusses the developing – and worrisome – body of knowledge of how COVID-19 affects the brain, while Korin Miller reports…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Charles Schmidt reports on new research findings showing that repeat infections with COVID-19 result in substantially elevated risks of death, hospitalization and…
The RStar Debacle (Who’s going to clean up this mess?)
“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” — opening scene, Star Wars The first thing I thought of when I heard the word RStar was the opening…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Maura Hohman discusses how COVID-19 has been found to cause increased heart problems in young people (among other harm to health) –…
SaskPower Plots To End Drinking Water Availability
Not maintaining availability and quality of drinking water is an option? Cool. Cool, cool, cool. NOT COOL, @SaskPower. What happens if the slavering hordes decide in the poll that we…
Reining in the reign of plastic
I was modestly surprised last week when my groceries were packed not in the usual plastic but in brown paper bags. The idea, of course, is to get away from…
The Engineering of a Passive Off the Grid House
A sustainable home doesn’t need to be off the gird, but for some people interested in sustainability they reach a logical conclusion that off the gird makes sense. Of course,…
Protect nature, or face human extinction
It seems like a no-brainer that in protecting nature, we are protecting ourselves and working to ensure human survival. Yet the ruling classes believe they can insulate themselves from consequences…
Let the Coal Corpse Lay
Why don’t we just let it die already? Coal companies keep getting bailed out by governments around the world despite the climate crisis, this needs to stop. Over at Climate…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – The World Health Organization has updated its guidelines for COVID-19 prevention and response – including recommendations for masking and isolation periods even when…
Putting Eco Back in Economics
Traditional economists ignore reality to justify their thinking, and anyone who studies economics is well aware of this. From the myth of the “rational human” to trickle down economics, to…
Free Money? No Thank You!
Many years ago the (then) Progressive Conservative government offered energy companies bags of money if they undertook projects the government thought were necessary. The CEO I worked for told us…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your New Year’s reading. – Bartley Kives reports on the most deadly year of the COVID-19 pandemic yet. And the BBC reports on the admonition that…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your year-end reading. – Allison Maher et al. study how COVID-19 causes fundamental changes to a person’s immune system, resulting in far greater vulnerability to other infections.…
Taxing the Ultra Wealthy Can Save the Planet
A wealth tax could be a way to not only address inequality, it’s also a way to reduce the damage done to the planet by greedy billionaires. Oxfam looked into…
what i’m reading: krakatoa: the day the world exploded: august 27, 1883 by simon winchester
The 1883 volcanic eruption known as Krakatoa was the largest, loudest, and most destructive natural event in human history. The explosions (there were many) were heard almost 3,000 miles away.…
Canada Starts Single Use Plastic Ban
Canada joins other nations in the banning of wasteful single use plastics starting at the end of this month. Canada’s plastic ban is being rolled out in an incremental fashion…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Blair Fix discusses how inflation reflects both instability in the overall system of prices, and a business strategy to turn that instability into…