January 2011
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“The evidence that bicycle lanes separated from traffic are safer for cyclists is...”
– Toronto Cyclists Union Ring & Post, January 2011
A Visual History of Yonge and Bloor →
On blogto. Is it just me, or has it actually gotten worse over time?
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Pumping C02 Underground Isn't Working in... →
Quite a bit of media chatter today about the carbon sequestration woes facing a couple with CO2 pumped underneath their farm in Weyburn, Saskatchewan. The Tyee has a great roundup of how sequestration technology could fail and what’s happening on the Kerr farm; definitely worth a read.
“Public monitoring data on a so-called world class demonstration project appears to have...
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The best idea I've herd...
catalogliving:
With Elaine out of town, Gary was forced to have his daily 1:45pm wine and cheese with Linus the ram head.
Stay classy, catalogliving.
Neato Infographic: Pitchfork's Highest (and... →
Check it out here!
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Young Americans Aschewing Car Ownership (For Now?)
Check out the results of this survey on how young Americans view car ownership, as interpreted by the lens of Forbes. Although there is an indisputable decline in the desire to own and operate personal cars, is this because of environmental factors, a lack of money, or the steepening costs of operating a car?
“In 1978 three quarters of 17 year-olds had licenses (and nearly half of...
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Copenhagen to Cancun: What Happened? →
I’ve been sitting on this post for awhile because I wanted to take a close read of Elizabeth May’s summary on the COP16 climate change talks in Cancun. If you want to understand how different the proceedings were compared to COP15 in Copenhagen, this is worth a serious look. Note Elizabeth’s responses in the Comments section.
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