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A Red Deer Epiphany
Last month at the Synergy Alberta 2011 conference in Red Deer, I had an epiphany ( Read more... ) -
Land-use and House
The meeting was not unusual. A boardroom at the downtown campus of Grant Macewan College with 14 or so interest groups interested in land-use policy. The Canada West Foundation was contracted by the provincial department of Sustainable Resource Development to initiate thinking about what a comprehensive land-use policy framework should look like. ( Read more... ) -
I'd've rather seen Greenpeace Tyveks
The National Post published a letter to the editor this morning by Patrick Moore, one of the founders, and now a harsh critic, of the international environmental group, Greenpeace. The letter addresses a recent Greenpeace 'victory' where a French battleship slated to be deconstructed and recycled at an Indian shipyard, was turned away because of ( Read more... ) -
OKAY!!!ABC!!
I was thinking that I haven't been updating with the same frequency as I used to and should write something tonite. Something... uplifting, maybe ( Read more... ) -
Anna Nicole and McLellan Fen
conan_o came to the saffron office today and he, Gil and I walked down the busy street that is Calgary Trail to Machine Gun Noodle for lunch ( Read more... ) -
Found a link at last...
I've been searching for an Edmonton or Alberta community focussed on environmental issues, in hopes of finding local discussion of the Michael Shellenberger/Ted Nordhaus essay Death of Environmentalis. I suppose it doesn't have to be local...
Grist has discussion straight from the source: environmentalismToxics Watch's Committment to Transportation Demand Management
Today's work related entry is posted on my work blog at: http://www.toxwatch.ca/node/25[synchronicity] I’ve seen where your poo goes
With one breath, with one flow ( Read more... )[environment] Endangered Species: Caribou
In 1922, the last grizzly bear in California was killed. The animal that was magnificent and powerful enough to be the icon on the state flag numbered 10,000 during the Spanish colonial period, but was doomed to extinction in California (extirpation) by 1908 with insufficient population to remain viable ( Read more... )