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Until Birnam Wood Comes to Dunsinane
Perhaps there is no accounting for taste because even when you do, the account doesn’t really mean very much ( Read more... ) -
It's true, what they say...
For over a year now, Hannah and I have been meeting with two representatives of World Financial Group. WFG is the Avon of financial services. They pitch their product at home visits. They host cultish, motivational parties for their associates. They employ a multi-level marketing compensation scheme. Much about the organization offends my ( Read more... ) -
Yard Food Day 2009
This is the traditional journal entry to record the first day of the year I've eaten something that was growing in the backyard.
Hannah and I were planting peas this evening and in the course of preparing the beds, I harvested enough dandelion crowns to serve alongside a grilled cheese sandwich for supper. Like last year, they were blanched, then ( Read more... ) -
Green groups want Shell oil sands permits rescinded
Wed Apr 8, 2009 2:31pm EDT ( Read more... ) -
Friday Night Fun
“Is this what it’s come to?” Hannah asked, lowering her head so that it rested on the back cushions of our couch. “Is this Friday night at the Kitagawa’s house?”
As you might recall one of the Ant Rules that I follow requires that, on my bicycle commutes to and from the Centre for Environmental Business and Advocacy and Balloons, I pick up ( Read more... ) -
Great Unexpectations
Two things I never expected happened yesterday ( Read more... ) -
Service
It’s good to be able to see the ground again. Maybe that’s one of the things that I find so hard about March; it’s the month that I’ve been separated from the soil for the longest time ( Read more... ) -
History in my neighborhood 1
A communications consultant we’d often engaged at the recycling authority regularly reminded us, “people only understand things that are connected to things they already understand”. Consequently, the ability to teach something new is limited by what your audience already knows ( Read more... ) -
Another e-mail-based post
Let me know if you think this is blog-cheating.
A correspondent has circulated this article over the Alberta Environmental Network list-serv:
Ban Carbon Emissions, Don’t Price them: Why Cap and Dividend is the Best Approach
I replied by e-mail:
Hi [Correspondents ( Read more... ) -
Lunch break & local offsets
It's lunch time!
From June 12-14, 2009, the Canadian Environmental Network will convene its annual general assembly in our fair city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and I have been serving on the organizing committee for this event. In the course of this service, I've come to realize that I am quite far behind my national counterparts in terms of ( Read more... )