published September 1, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Jonathan McIntosh via flickr With all the increased attention Canada's tar sands projects have been getting--both in terms of environmental impact and distributing them through pipeline into the United States--it's not surprising that many people are calling for a boycott on oil and fuel produced from tar sands. But is that really possible in a meaningful sense? ... ...
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published September 1, 2010 and has No Comments
map: Wikipedia The Canadian tar sands industry-government group Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program doesn't much like a recent report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing that tar sands projects are responsible for elevated levels of water toxicity downstream from projects. RAMP's Fred Kuzmic maintains that any to... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published August 30, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: sbamueller via flickr Contradicting previous industry- and government-backed studies about the source of pollution occurring downstream from Alberta tar sands projects, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says that high levels of lead, mercury, cadmium, zinc and other pollutants are not naturally occurring. As Cree elders have said for some time,
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published August 29, 2010 and has No Comments
Image via: CBC News Hemp isn't only TreeHugger approved. It's won this green yogini over in the health department with its number of nutritional benefits. It's an animal-free source of essential fatty acid omegas, proteins and amino acids--all-important for heart, brain and skin health. Who knew that a spoonful of hemp powder wouldn't only find its wa... Read the ...
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published August 27, 2010 and has No Comments
Arctic sea ice extent image for August 24, 2010, as compiled by The University of Illinois Cryosphere For the fourth year in a row, and for the fourth time in recorded history, the Northwest passage is completely open. For only the third time, both the Northwest and Northeast passage (north of Russia) are open. If you had a fast ...
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published August 23, 2010 and has No Comments
Image: Mitsubishi 28 Days to Cross the Country with Electricity Mitsubishi wanted to do a big PR stunt to market its i MiEV electric car, and Canada's a big country. They put the two together and the i MiEV (it does kinda look like a jellybean) is en route to cross Canada in 28 days, stop numerous time to ...
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published August 23, 2010 and has No Comments
Wired computer labs work fine for kids. Photo by mikecogh via Flickr. Guest blogger Andrea Donsky is co-founder of NaturallySavvy.com . Wi-Fi is facing a lot of opposition from parents and teachers in Ontario. Last week, Lloyd Alter was critical of parents' claims that Wi-Fi may pose a health threat to students at elementary schools , ... Read the ...
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published August 22, 2010 and has No Comments
Image: Thilo Folkerts With electronic reader gadgets like the Kindle changing the way we read, could good ol' fashioned books become an endangered species of sorts? Either way, there's still nothing quite like the living and tactile experience of seeing, touching and smelling the pages of real book. "Long live the book," we say -- a sentiment that's reflected ...
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published August 9, 2010 and has No Comments
Buckminster Fuller made his Dymaxion houses round because they were aerodynamic and because a circular house encloses more floor area for a given amount of perimeter material. According to the Ottawa Citizen , people are still doing it, for much the same reasons. But instead of aluminum, Laurie Murray and George Kerr built theirs out of cordwood, a very ...
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published August 6, 2010 and has No Comments
Canada's Minister of the Environment, Jim Prentice, is a history buff. He has a particular interest in HMS Investigator , which sank in 1854 after getting stuck in the ice for three years, and which was found just last week by Parks Canada archaeologists. Prentice told the Calgary Herald: "This is one of the most important shipwrecks in Canadian ...
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