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Since 1970, April 22 has been celebrated as Earth Day. Some cities also observe it on one of the days of the weekend closest to April 22 so more people can participate. The goal of Earth Day is for everyone to become more aware of our planet’s environment. By taking part in eco-friendly community projects [...]
On October 29, 2008 I read a story headlined “Zoo’s poo aids push to become ‘carbon-neutral’ ” on the Toronto Star‘s Web site. According to the article, the Toronto Zoo is considering building a $13-million facility that will include an anaerobic digester, which would enable the zoo to generate electricity using methane gas derived from [...]
Humanity faces a variety of potential environmental crises, possibly even catastrophes. That is why I’m a strong supporter of efforts to make dramatically more use of wind to generate electricity. When I say “dramatically more”? I’m talking about several orders of magnitude. And I’m no NIMBYist. I’m happy to have the movement to wide scale [...]
I’m getting extremely tired of this recycling nonsense. It’s too difficult to figure out. I’m supposed to recycle cardboard packaging, unless it’s been waxed. How the hell do I know which packaging has been waxed? None of it has any visible body hair so I figure it’s all been waxed. Then again, maybe it shaved [...]
Halton, a municipality near Toronto, my hometown, is considering incinerating trash and generating electricity in the process. Halton is still in the investigation and public consultation phase, but, if it goes ahead, the incinerator will, it’s reported, likely be able to handle 70% of the garbage from the Greater Toronto Area, which includes Toronto and [...]
I’ve got to believe that, during hot, humid weather, theater owners can make considerably more money showing An Inconvenient Truth, a film about global warming, than by showing just about any other film. I saw it on such a day. The theater was warmer than I would have liked. I don’t know about the other [...]
Yesterday, I saw the film An Inconvenient Truth (I highly recommend it), which served to reinforce in my mind the need for us to reduce our burning of fossil fuels, including, although not exclusively, oil. Unbelievable though it may seem, you may be one of the dwindling breed of global warming skeptics, but there are [...]
I don’t know if they have these where you live, but here one or more companies have flatbed trucks that they use to drag large billboards around the city in order to display advertising to pedestrians and the drivers of cars with whom the trucks share the roads. My day job is in marketing, so [...]