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Pin Pricks
Happy Earth Month! I’ve been thinking about easy things we can do to help our planet. They may seem small but if we all do them, the effect will be incredible. Thus I have written this for your consideration: If … Continue reading
Posted in action, Climate change, Disposable planet, Food, Shopping
Tagged coffee, deforestation, disposable, environment, fast food, garbage, habitat destruction, habits, human impacts, plastic, take out, waste, Western culture
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Pipe Dreams and Foolish Experiments
Recently I attended a presentation and consultation meeting about a pipeline that is being proposed north of where I live. The proposal is to connect the Alberta Tar Sands to the east coast of Canada in order to ship the … Continue reading
Posted in environmental disasters, health, Pipeline, Tar Sands
Tagged Alberta, chemicals, consultation, deforestation, energy, environment, habitat destruction, Ontario, pipeline, TransCanada, trees, Western culture
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A Plethora of Possibilities
The good news about so many bad things happening to our environment is there are so many options to pick from for jumping in and adding your voice and energy to help. I’m an optimist and I like to find … Continue reading
Posted in action, Alternatives, Asthma, Chemicals, Environmental Leaders, health, hormone
Tagged asthmagens, chemicals, Chris Jordan, environment, helping, snow shoe, taking action
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Increasingly Silent Spring
Who hasn’t had good intentions about reading a book that is just sitting on their shelf? I have many such books. But the time came to finally pick up one of them in particular. In beginning to read it, I … Continue reading
Posted in Chemicals, Culture, Environmental Leaders, war
Tagged Al Gore, chemicals, environment, harm, human impacts, leadership, pesticide, planet, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
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Honouring them?
It has been my honour to have played the Last Post dozens of times for fallen soldiers and veterans: at cenotaphs on Remembrance Day, at graveyards and in churches for funerals and on parade for other honouring ceremonies. Lest we … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Disposable planet, Respect, war
Tagged capitalism, deforestation, earth, environment, harm, human impacts, military, Western culture
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Reflections on Time
I saw this fun reflection and wanted to share it with a friend so I grabbed my new mp3 player with built-in camera, snapped a photo, plugged the device into the computer, transferred the photo, attached it to an email … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
Tagged capitalism, deforestation, earth, efficiency, environment, habitat destruction, human impacts, mountaintop coal mining, time, Western culture
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One cup, one habit, one planet
It wouldn’t be a New Year without talk of New Year’s resolutions. Many people contemplate gaining this new habit or losing that one and a lot of time is spent planning and thinking. Habits—good, bad or otherwise—are our guidance systems … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Disposable planet, waste
Tagged Chris Jordan, environment, garbage, habits, New Year, paper cups, planet, recycling, trees
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Turning Point
At 1230 am last night, a very subtle event occurred that only occurs once each year. In the northern hemisphere, which is where I live, the North Pole arrived at the angle of tilt that is furthest from the sun: … Continue reading