Monthly Archives: February 2007

Yehuda: Canadian Copyright Code, in Verse

Yehuda: Canadian Copyright Code, in Verse

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BC-Alberta Trade Agreement Scuppers CO2 Reduction in BC

This Tyee Article about TILMA shows how its restrictions on differential regulation make it virtually impossible for one province to implement stricter standards (in any area).

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bavatuesdays

bavatuesdays something to read about wordpress multi-user

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AlterNet: EnviroHealth: Renewables Can Turn the Tide on Global Warming

AlterNet: EnviroHealth: Renewables Can Turn the Tide on Global Warming

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Hours of Daylight

Thanks to Zac at squareCircleZ for pointing out the dawn and dusk graphs at Gaisma as real-life examples of approximate sine graphs. In fact the true time of noon appears to oscillate slightly with a 6 month period so that … Continue reading

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Who Was Milton Friedman?

The New York Review of Books: Who Was Milton Friedman? by Paul Krugman

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Why I Have Not Read ‘Heat’

According to his publisher’s web blurb, George Monbiot has established that “we need a 90% cut in our emissions within 25 years if we are to stop ourselves reaching the point where the “climate feedback” becomes unstoppable”, and “for the … Continue reading

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Lights Out!

Unfortunately I don’t think this initiative has had enough publicity in this part of the world for there to be a noticeable dip as seen by BC Hydro but there’s nothing wrong with joining in to the extent that we … Continue reading

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Egalitarian Nature of Blogging

Wesley Fryer on The Egalitarian Nature of Blogging

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