I found a bit of good news in the newspaper this morning. In a recent survey conducted by the Globe & Mail and CTV News, the environment has passed health care as Canadians’ number one priority and the numbers are rising quickly. The poll also found that 20 percent of Canadians are likely to [...]

RadioFreeEurope is reporting that the Siberian tundra is melting. New lakes are forming, existing lakes are getting bigger and houses built on the permafrost are starting to sink.
What is especially scary is that the rate of warming is expected to increase. As the permafrost melts, it releases methane gas which is considered to be 20 [...]

The much anticipated Wordpress 2.1 has been released into the wild and it is a big improvement over 2.0.7. Upgrading was easy and only took me 20 minutes for the six blogs that I host and all of my Plugins worked fine. Most of the time was spent backing up the databases and files [...]

It used to be that the idea of man living with dinosaurs was an idea that was left to cartoons and children’s imaginations, but since the Christian Right has gained such a strong power base in America, all that is changing.
Most of us have heard about the fights over teaching evolution vs. creationism in schools, [...]

If you have arrived here looking for our Burning Man website or photos, they have all been imported into this website. You will find the images in the Photo Albums and to find our blog posts from Burning Man 2003, head over to the sidebar, scroll down and click on the Burning Man category.
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With the changing weather, people are becoming more serious about global warming and the environment. Many of us are thinking about how we are going to leave this planet to the next generation and are wondering just how much impact we are having.
There are several online environmental calculators available. One that may shock you [...]

It is a sad day for Alaskan wildlife. On Tuesday, President Bush lifted the last remaining drilling ban for Alaska’s Bristol Bay. The 5.6 million acre area has been off limits since 1989. Bush has done this while Congress attempts to put new bans in place, but he will probably just ignore those with another [...]

The Green Party of Ontario (Burlington) will be hosting an Information Night and Constituency Assembly (riding association) Founding Meeting at the Burlington Central Public Library, New Street on Tuesday, Jan. 23 at 7:30pm.
Guest speakers will provide an explanation of the Green Party’s philosophy and Key Values. Hear what the provincial Green Party is doing [...]

Juliette and I were visiting family today and were discussing Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth and the summer like weather we are getting in Canada right now. My aunt asked if we thought the weather was a result of global warming and then went on to talk about how there was so much controversy [...]