Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Biofuels -- let the wars begin

›
Even as the EU backs away abruptly from its previous biofuels usage goals in the face of ''soaring world food prices blamed partly o...
1 comment:
Saturday, July 26, 2008

Vegan recipes featured in online media sources

›
The UK's Guardian features a recipe for Soba Noodles w/ Wakame today.  "Mmmm!  Slurpy wakame!" (OK, so reading that descripti...
Friday, July 25, 2008

Kim Honey's rabbit kill follow-up

›
After finding herself on the receiving end of expressions of outrage from vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike, Toronto Star's Kim Ho...
2 comments:
Thursday, July 24, 2008

Plutarch and bunnies

›
A friend forwarded me a link to an article by Toronto Star food editor Kim Honey , who I think took the low road this week by playing the se...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Vivisection up 6% in the UK from last year

›
According to statistics released yesterday by the UK's Home Office, vivisection in the UK is up 6% from last year. A total of just over...
Monday, July 21, 2008

MIA

›
I haven't been updating here much for the past while because my heart hasn't really been in it. I've been spending most of my ti...
2 comments:
Thursday, July 17, 2008

Baptist church cancels youth conference's gun giveaway

›
“I don’t want people thinking ‘My goodness, we’re putting a weapon in the hand of somebody that doesn’t respect it who are then going to go ...
2 comments:
Monday, July 14, 2008

Bush on climate change and peak oil

›
This is as close to flipping the world the bird as it gets: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter!" And as if the price o...
Thursday, July 10, 2008

High oil prices and their impact on the US and Canada this month

›
Air Canada has cut more than 600 flight attendant jobs across the country and intends to cut up to 2000 in total. In the US, Northwest Ai...

The Pray at the Pump Movement

›
I had to chuckle at this a bit. The Pray at the Pump Movement, founded by Rocky Twyman, has been holding prayer vigils at gas stations acros...
1 comment:
Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Old Sol

›
I found this story via Digg . Apparently, 90% of Israeli homes are equipped with solar water heaters. They started popping up when restri...
Tuesday, July 08, 2008

USDA's recently updated chart of the growth of the adoption of GM crops in the US

›
Regardless of consumers' wariness of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), thanks to a lack of labelling (not to mention testing and re...
3 comments:
Monday, July 07, 2008

Looking ahead to a harsh winter

›
A while back, I'd posted about rising costs in home heating oil and how this was going to become a major concern for consumers sooner th...
1 comment:
Saturday, July 05, 2008

Leaked World Bank study asserts that 75% of recent food price hikes are due to biofuels

›
It's finally slipping into the mainsteam that biofuels aren't the panacea that Washington would like us all to think they are. They...
1 comment:
Thursday, July 03, 2008

Britain's home gardens ruined by toxic aminopyralid-contaminated fertilizer

›
This story that's just started spreading in the news is frightening. This wasn't caused by home gardeners spraying herbicide on t...