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    Greens Surpass NDP in Ontario for 1st time ever

    Blog | Saturday, 12 Jan 2008
    The Green Party of Canada has surpassed the NDP for the first time ever in vote rich Ontario (38% of all votes in the 2006 federal election were cast in Ontario). Harris Decima’s most recent poll (...

    Regulating an inherently dangerous business

    Blog | Wednesday, 09 Jan 2008
    Nuclear power is in a class by itself as a technology. Fred Knelman once referred to nuclear as “a future technology whose time has passed.” That fits. It is an unforgiving technology. A...

    Google: How to Save 40 B kWhr at no Cost!

    Blog | Monday, 07 Jan 2008
    Google has pointed out how the PC industry could save 40 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity over three years – or more than $5 billion in power at current California electricity rates – at “...

    Holiday Madness

    Blog | Friday, 04 Jan 2008
    Holiday time gave me a chance to catch up on things that needed doing, but that I never have time to do -- passport renewal application, re-connecting a phone that Bell disconnected in error, a...

    How the Grinch stole Christmas

    Blog | Saturday, 22 Dec 2007
    I am still in shock that the Nova Scotia Minister of Environment has refused to provide an extension for public comments on the Focus Report for a proposed open pit gold mine in Moose River, Nova...

    UPS saves 3M gallons by Avoiding Lefts

    Blog | Wednesday, 19 Dec 2007
    UPS saves 3 million gallons by not turning Left The company employs a hyperefficient “package flow” software program, which maps out routes for every one of its drivers, drastically reducing the...

    What happened in Bali??

    Blog | Sunday, 16 Dec 2007
    The dust is settling, the weary heroes of Bali are mostly asleep in airplanes heading home after what was the most dramatic cliff-hanger in the history of U.N. climate negotiations. (And that is...

    US & Canada almost halted Int'l Agreement in Bali

    Blog | Saturday, 15 Dec 2007
    The US finally made some concessions at Bali and Canada very grudgingly followed suit. Here are a few key clippings in case you missed them. The BBC videoclips are quite good, particularly the one...