Salt Spring Forum and Salt Spring Island Conservancy hosted noted western Canadian journalist Andrew Nikiforuk Wednesday to hear details of his new book, Empire of the Beetle. It is an examination of “how human folly and a […]
Taking on Goliath
Liberal scorn for sustainability
After examining Mihlar’s collection of writings, one may conclude that he holds a senior newspaper position, not for cogent analysis or deft word construction, but for reliable parroting of talking points from obscurantist ‘research’ facilities. Mihlar is not one to provide graceful penetration of complicated economic questions. Instead, we get repetition of chatter from the right-wing information machine.
Conservation must be our central order of business
Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay theprice of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.(Gifford Pinchot 1865-1946, first Chief of […]
Guest Post re Enbridge Northern Gateway
Hi Friends, I just registered to make an oral submission to the National Energy Board panel reviewing the Enbridge Northern Gateway project. I encourage you to do the same. Enbridge plans to […]
Hands-on, results driven, action oriented corpspeak
DuPont’s Herbicide Goes Rogue, Jim Hightower, OtherWords.orgIn the corporate world’s tortured language, workers are no longer fired. They just experience an “employment adjustment.” But the most twisted euphemism I’ve heard in a […]
People in NE BC, prepare for this – UPDATED
ProPublica,Science Lags As Health Problems Emerge Near Gas Fields, September 16By Abrahm Lustgarten and Nicholas Kusnetz Wallace-Babb was so sick she could barely move. She vomited uncontrollably and suffered explosive diarrhea. A […]
Jet set poseur or selfless campaigner ?
Recently, I’ve posed the question: Is there an inevitable journey for professional environmentalists from impecunious youthful idealists to zealous hustlers loyally serving industrial interests for personal gain? I made the inquiry in […]
Dear Greenpeace, re Tzeporah Berman
Tzeporah Berman was at Capilano University Wednesday evening performing at the North Shore Credit Union Centre for the Performing Arts. Her act was promised to be an exploration of the past and […]
‘Uncontrollable’ natural disaster inevitable
Oil Exploration Under Arctic Ice Could Cause ‘Uncontrollable’ Natural Disasterby Michael McCarthyPublished on Tuesday, September 6, 2011 by the Independent/UK “Any serious oil spill in the ice of the Arctic, the “new […]
A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, along the briny beach
“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax– Of cabbages–and kings– And why the sea is boiling hot– And whether pigs have wings.” Tzeporah […]
More small dams for me and you
Small Hydro Power from Tom11 Films on Vimeo.
Ethical SpOil
Licia Corbella, Postmedia News, Aug 4/11 “Ethical oil campaign aims to silence critics. Website’s ads hammer myths about energy-buying practices: Canada’s resources or ‘bloody’ oil that funds terrorism . . .” Nathan […]
Business opportunity for oudoorsmen
Stephen Hume of the Vancouver Sun writes: “It now appears British Columbia is officially declaring total war on wolves in the Cariboo and Chilcotin – a region which covers about one-third of […]
Greatest hoax ever perpetrated or?
David Roberts, Grist, Stuff white people like: denying climate change: There’s a study running soon in the journal Global Environmental Change called “Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white […]
. . . a parking lot with a pink hotel, a boutique. And a swinging hot spot . . .
“was up at Narrows Inlet for a week plus…..taken a couple of days ago…..don’t want to see penstocks, powerlines and powerhouses in the next photo…..” Ken Renewable Power Corporation (RPC) hopes to […]
Greenwash
This is old news but worth revisiting. I was reminded because of a notice in my inbox that Capilano University is selling tickets to a lecture by Ms. Berman in September. Is […]
Wisdom of the ordinary guy
The Common Sense Canadian‘s cartoonist in residence. While working at a paper mill and raising two children as a single-dad in Kitimat, BC, Gerry Hummel began working as a self-taught editorial cartoonist […]
Fracking and drilling benign?
http://embed.5min.com/516997856/ Mud Volcano in Sidoarjo Indonesia
From Gerry Hummel, master of the editorial cartoon
See this and more of Hummel’s work at The Common Sense Canadian. Gerry Hummell is a brilliant throw-back to BC’s great editorial cartoonists Len Norris and Roy Peterson. .
PHD: Piled Higher and Deeper
April 5, the Vancouver Sun brought us a “Special to the Sun” by Patrick Moore PHD, titled Fukushima is nowhere near as bad as Chernobyl. “Stephanie Goodwin’s letter comparing the incident at […]
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