Ontario Liberal’s Green Plates: a licence to be smug
The Ontario Liberal's new environmental "incentive program" was unveiled yesterday. This scheme would allow the province to hand out special eco-licence plates to owners of low-emmision cars such as...
View ArticleIdling buses are killing us with diesel fumes and irony
When I read inspiring books like Bill McKibben's Deep Economy and Mike Nickerson's Life, Money and Illusion , I dream utopian dreams of a world with no cars. Instead, our roads are practically empty...
View ArticleSave, don’t pave David Dunlap Observatory
It is astounding to me that the University of Toronto continues to ignore the public and politicians calling on them to cancel the sale of David Dunlap Observatory. The DDO land and buildings were...
View ArticleWhere will you be during Earth Hour?
Yeah, I know Earth Hour isn't going to solve the Global Mess we've gotten ourselves into. It's a symbolic gesture, but sometimes symbols are all we have. And when you know you can't fix the world, it's...
View Article500 ducks suffer a crude death in Alberta
“Whenever we have an economic activity, we’ve got to do it in an environmentally friendly way”. That’s what Federal Environment Minister John Baird told the Globe and Mail yesterday when it reported...
View ArticleAn open letter to the Governing Council of the University of Toronto
Now that the moving vans have arrived to plunder the Dunlap Observatory, I’m reprising my original letter sent to U of T’s Governing Council. Recall, that U of T never once allowed anyone opposed to...
View ArticleA short talk by Mike Nickerson
A short, but poignant talk by Mike Nickerson, author of Life, Money and Illusion :
View ArticleHeritage Trust letter to Minister of Culture recommends preservation of...
As part of a community effort to preserve David Dunlap Observatory — a 190-acre park in the middle of Richmond Hill, a freedom of information request was issued to the Ontario Ministry of Culture. The...
View ArticleTransCanada: American Veterans Endorse Keystone XL Pipeline
TransCanada Pipelines has co-opted a few American veterans to shill for the Keystone XL project as part of a lobbying effort to get Hillary Clinton to approve it. As they say in a March 4, 2011 letter...
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