Archive for the Category "Green Concerns"
Draft Text of the Copenhagen Convention
Since I suspect that this is something that Slaw readers may be hunting for, here is a copy of the working text of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action on Climate Change for a shared vision for long-term cooperative action.
The Copenhagen website is here .
The Report of the Global Environment Facility is [...]
The Climate Change Impact of Spam
Taking off from David Canton’s post on the Economics of Spam, here’s a link to a survey from McAfee published today that has some findings that surprised me – One e-mail is like driving three feet:
An estimated worldwide total of 62 trillion spam emails were sent in 2008
Globally, annual spam energy use totals 33 billion [...]
Kyoto and Justiciability
Chris Paliare was on his feet today, arguing for Friends of the Earth in a Federal Court judicial review to to force the Canadian government to follow the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act, passed by Parliament a year ago. The case is a global first in seeking enforcement of the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty [...]
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Solar Powered iPods
Good news!
According to online chatter, a recent patent application filed by some Apple employees hints that the company is working on making its mobile devices, like the iPod, solar powered. MacRumors.com briefly discusses the advantages and challenges of doing this.
Making Our Words Count: Canadian Authors in the Electronic Era
Yesterday, I attended a really stimulating discussion at the Writers’ Union Annual Meeting involving Jill Tonus of Bereskin & Parr and the Director of the Scream Literary Festival and York University’s experimental new media lab, Bill Kennedy. The session was moderated by Derek Weiler, the Editor of Quill & Quire.
The issue that [...]
Kiss Me I’m Irish
I know–everybody has been checking Slaw hourly to see what shenanigans I’d be up to on St. Patrick’s Day. Well, I hate to disappoint. For much silliness, you are welcome to check my blog post Happy St. Paddy’s Day to All My Friends.
To those of you raising a pint on this fine [...]
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Since this is February 29
Canadian Parliament Forcing Re-opening of Nuclear Reactor
The Canadian Parliament held emergency sittings of both the House of Commons and the Senate last night to pass through Bill C-38 on an urgent basis. This Bill is meant to force the re-opening of the Chalk River Nuclear Reactor, previously closed by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission in November on safety concerns. [...]
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Website Allows You to Reduce Environmental Footprint
My friends and I like to travel. And yet, we also like to reduce our footprint on the environment. And really, the two things are so contradictory. Every time we step onto an airplane, we are doing inestimable damage to the environment. What to do?
Back in May Air Canada announced a [...]
