Saturday, May 31, 2008

Some vegan recipes circulating in the online news

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The Allentown Morning Call has a recipe for Chocolate Ganache Cake from new cookbook You Won't Believe It's Vegan! by Lacey Sher ...
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Friday, May 30, 2008

Critical Mass rally in Fredericton today at 5 pm

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I'd forgotten to mention this. There's a Critical Mass bike rally in Fredericton today (they're held on the last Friday of eve...

Seed: From biotech giants' patents and lobbying, to my thankfulness for local organic growers

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According to Forbes , Monsanto spent $1.3M on lobbying, just in the first quarter of this year. They lobbied ''Congress, (the) Wh...
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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Charting rising fuel prices in Canada and how it's hitting home

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National Resources Canada has been charting the increasing cost of gas, diesel, propane and furnace oil across Canada . I checked out some ...
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Renewable Energy: Ground-source heat pumps (GSHP)

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Lately, I've been talking to a new vegetarian acquaintance -- a physicist with a keen interest in renewable energy -- about geoth...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Less plastic, please!

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The province of Ontario recently announced that its LCBO stores are phasing out plastic bags . Their stock is expected to run out between ...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Peak oil in the news

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It's funny how just two years ago, I was barely familiar with the theory of peak oil. I'd heard it brought up in a few online veg...
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Sunday, May 25, 2008

Colin Hay

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This song's been playing over and over in my head for days. Colin Hay's got this sad sort of voice that just adds that extra '...
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Perks

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One of the perks of having a sorta absentee landlord is that at this time of year, I could literally live off of dandelion greens. I'd ...

Peak Oil Overview -- March 2008 from The Oil Drum

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The Oil Drum has a great concise piece on oil production available on its site right now. It's also available in .pdf format or in Powe...
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Farming in the news

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Grist had a decent short article this past week on the United States' urgent need for more farmers. Farmers make up 1.6 percent of t...
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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Peak Oil and being single -- some ramblings

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I've been doing some Googling on Peak Oil and being single. Most articles about Peak Oil (particularly those envisionin...
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NB Conservation Council's solar water heater campaign

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The NB Conservation Council is currently engaged in a letter writing campaign to encourage folks to contact NB Power to ask them to provid...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

South Knowlesville Community Land Trust

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I slipped into a little piece of comfort this past weekend, in the middle of the bustle of finding myself offering up my home to a friend ...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008

About the company of others

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Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and ...