Earth Day Celebrations – Bitter Sweet

The recent Earth Day celebrations had a sad tone this year in our town.  In the face of the wars currently going on in the
Middle East, coupled with the federal and provincial governments currently faking green attitudes, there wasn’t much to feel optimistic about.  There are plenty of reasons for being unhappy with the Conservatives. [...]

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Alternative Energy Must Be Clean

Richard Branson has offered twenty-five million to anyone who can find a way to get rid of the carbon dioxide in earth’s atmosphere.  He thinks that if we can get rid of the C02, it will solve the problem of global warming.  Well, in spite of the fact that I rather like Richard Branson, he’s [...]

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CN Doesn’t Care

CN doesn’t care about the safety of its employees, the environment or any other life.  All they care about is making money.  This is the impression we’re left with after numerous reports about derailments all across the country – one every three days on average.  After the recent W5 broadcast about CN and their lousy [...]

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Healing Ourselves

Since the vast majority of Canadians across the country are very concerned about global warming and other environmental concerns, this seems the perfect time to consider the idea of healing ourselves as part of our efforts to save this planet.  We tend to think of ourselves as separate somehow, as though it might be possible [...]

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Winter Ponderings

Jan 22, 2007
After about a week of minus ten and below temperatures, the sort of temperatures we should be getting in winter, we’re back to the plus side of the thermometer.  I’m not a big fan of cold weather, but I realize we need it.  Without a longer deep freeze it becomes more difficult to [...]

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