Archive for the 'green' Category
Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
Canada’s government, led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, is about to sign into law a new trade agreement with China. The agreement has had no public input by the Canadian people or their elected representatives. One can only suppose that it’s designed to enrich Canada’s corporate class. It certainly impoverishes Canada’s democracy. As The Tyee, […]
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Monday, July 9th, 2012
The Salem Harbor Power Station will close in June 2014. Initially, the field looked wide open for exciting new redevelopments, but now it appears that the site might see another power plant. Strike one for Realpolitik, zero for vision? Green Drinks invited Jan Schlichtmann, Lori Ehrlich, et al., to debate on June 26, 2012.
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Thursday, August 4th, 2011
I came here for the weather. Seriously. East Coast winters (cold) and East Coast summers (Triple-H: hot hazy humid) drove me bonkers. But global warming is making me feel a bit like Rick in Casablanca: misinformed. Misinformed – you know, that great line where Louis asks Rick why he came to Casablanca, to which Rick […]
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Tags: climate_change, global_weirding, weather
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Sunday, June 12th, 2011
Here’s a plea to connect the dots: watch the 365.org video, consider rising food prices, and read about Marx today. Dare you!
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Tags: climate_change, economy, tarsands
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Safety questions and radiation aren’t the only things to worry about when considering nuclear power. The question of nuclear’s huge cost (to build, maintain, renew) is the glowing elephant in the room.
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Tags: nuclear_power
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Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
Two articles that need your attention: one, in the Wall Street Journal, Trader Holds $3 Billion of Copper in London, which describes how some trader is sitting on 80-90% of circa 50% of the world’s exchange-registered copper stockpile, squirreled away in a London warehouse. We don’t think a lot about where those metals come from. […]
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Tags: appalachians, environmentalism
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Monday, November 8th, 2010
Last Friday, I stopped in at Exploring the Aesthetics of Sustainability | Green Design as Art, a small (but interesting!) weekend exhibit at the newly-completed Atrium Building in downtown Victoria. The developer (Victoria-based Jawl Properties) made an unfinished/ raw ground-floor retail space available to the the organizers – props to the Jawls for their civic-minded […]
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Tags: art_show, cascadia_green_building_council, emerging_green_builders, exhibitions, sustainability, the_atrium
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Monday, October 11th, 2010
There are times, I think, when having a tumblr (vs a blog) would be cool – then it would be enough just to post, free-standing, the smack-down that Peter Busby (“one of Canada’s leaders in green architecture”) gives Bob Rennie (“the influential Vancouver condo marketer who is the last say for many developers on what […]
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Tags: dockside_green
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Saturday, August 7th, 2010
Since I’m fuming in a conversation over on Facebook about the City of Victoria’s Department of Engineering (which seems to me benighted), I was reminded of my 2007 article, Biophilic Design: Taking Love to the Street (the link goes to the Scribd version). Not to sound too much like I’m tooting my own horn, but […]
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