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A couple of colleagues have circulated links to websites offering the opportunity to offset the CO2 created by my energy consumption in return for monetary payment. eg http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/whatyoucando/index.html http://www.cooldrivepass.com/home.cfm http://www.offsetters.ca/ Thanks for the links, but all of these people are asking for money and offering little but vague assertions in return. This is not intended [...]

George Monbiot showed (in November 2005) that, even with extremely generous assumptions about the plausible extent of resource usage, renewable energy sources will not suffice to replace what he believes must be cut from our carbon combustion rate. But then (in July 2006) he continued to deny what may be the only feasible solution, despite [...]

David Brin’s suggestion for adding peer-to-peer capabilities to create a more robust cellular phone system

In Today’s Big Story at thetyee.ca perhaps the most interesting aspect was the (wisely) restrained reaction of Jack Layton – “It’s certainly incumbent on somebody proposing to use nuclear plants to provide the power for the oil sands to tell us where they are going to put the waste. And I don’t think that question [...]

This Tyee article is about the low profile of the ‘Net Neutrality’ debate in Canada. Author Bryan Zandberg is right that this is something we should not be ignoring. The telecoms and cable providers are monopolies, and not only do they demand non-competition within the technologies of which they have been given control, but they [...]

Preaching the Word of Atheism is an article in The Tyee which surveys some trends (or wannabe trends) among the humanists and others who are skeptical of the value of religion. Whether or not they are either representative or have any chance of being effective, there is some interest in watching their progress. The same [...]

The Tyee review of this movie (which I saw last weekend) is in my opinion off base. The film is technically quite well done with effective cinematography and acting, but the premise is more than silly; in fact it is quite harmful. I am not referring primarily to the implausibility of sudden global unexplained human-specific [...]

The Reality Club: BEYOND BELIEF

What Al Gore Hasn’t Told You About Global Warming is a review on Alternet by David Morris of George Monbiot’s book ‘Heat’

Wesley Fryer reports on a workshop by Bernie Dodge at Macworld

A group of my colleagues at Langara College have been looking at the possibility of significantly increasing the attention paid to environmental sustainability – both in terms of our college’s physical operations and in terms of what we teach. Some feel that what is needed can be accomplished within our existing governance structures and others [...]

By Crawford Killian in Tyee we have Mark Twain, Father of the Internet cute!