Now, instead of having the choice of whatever coffee you want, you pay almost a buck per hit of their choice of brand, and a little plastic, foil and paper turd to throw in the garbage after. In the end, in the name of convenience, we have a machine that creates a captive audience for an overpriced proprietary coffee system that creates unnecessary waste.
~ Treehugger, always describing the scourge of coffee pods so well.
21 May 2012
Cars Are Killing You
An article from the Globe & Mail:
The findings, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, revealed that commuting more than 16 kilometres was linked to elevated blood pressure. Those who commuted more than 24 kilometres also had an elevated risk of not getting enough exercise and being obese.
Those living less than 100 metres from a busy roadway had a 27 per cent higher risk of dying over a 10-year period, compared to those who lived a kilometre away.
Get on a bike already.
11 May 2012
Greenpeace spells out Climatefail at Parliament Hill, in protest of the government’s retrograde stance on climate change and emissions mitigation at Durban. Elizabeth May goes as far to say that Canada will play the role of saboteur. Although I’d call it “obstructivist,” I basically agree.
Check out the full-res shots here.
30 November 2011
I think at certain times [road tolls are unmentionable] but presented in a different form, under different circumstances, I think an adult conversation could be had about them. And, later on there may be that possibility.
~ Ford-selected transit advisor Gordon Chong to the CBC, in reply to the recent back-and-forth about whether the City is considering using road tolls to help pay for the Sheppard subway. (NO KIDDING.)
(Source: torontoist.com)
2 June 2011
If you’ve been anywhere downtown Toronto in the past month, you have undoubtedly seen the racks of unique looking bicycles either on sidewalks or in parking lots, and chances are they have been missing a lot of bikes from their racks. That’s because they’ve been getting taken out and used - a LOT. After only a month of being in place, there have been 64,500 total trips on BIXI bikes in Toronto, and 28,830 were from just last week. Average that out over the 1 month that BIXI Toronto has been around, and you’re looking at 2,300 trips a day during a month when the sun barely shone once.
~ Great news from blogTO and Greener Ideal on the success of Toronto’s BIXI!
1 June 2011
Pumping C02 Underground Isn't Working in Saskatchewan
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 disappeared since 2004.” Why has the government stopped monitoring the carbon cemetary underneath the Kerr farm even though $3 billion in provincial and federal money is committed to sequestration research and application?
12 January 2011
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.
5 January 2011
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