¶ Published Friday, January 29th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Miscellaneous ∞ No Comments »
I just purchased a one-way ticket to Toronto on the Via Rail website. The experience was decent enough, though one thing did baffle me. Take a look at the screen-shot below of the last screen before the purchase. It states that the ticket is “Non-exchangeable and non-refundable” and below it says it is “Fully refundable prior to [...]
¶ Published Friday, January 29th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
Canada drops from 12th in 2008 to 43rd out of 163 countries, according to the 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI). The EPI relies on 25 performance indicators covering both environmental public health and ecosystem vitality.
It’s worth noting that Canada fares quite well on some indicators — in forestry and agricultural practices, notably. Surprisingly, [...]
¶ Published Thursday, January 28th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
In 1927, Charles Lindberg, flew from Paris to New York solo and kicked off the air transportation industry. Today, Bertrand Piccard carries on the torch with his project Solar Impulse. He plans to fly around the world with no fuel – just solar panels and batteries. For a great description of his project and motivations, watch [...]
¶ Published Wednesday, January 27th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
The New York Times has an item on a series of climate change lawsuitsthat are making their way through the courts around the U.S. Already, two federal appeals courts have reversed decisions by federal district courts to dismiss climate-change decisions. One of the cases (Comer v. Murphy Oil USA (5th Cir. Miss. October 16, [...]
¶ Published Sunday, January 24th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
Just read a great article by Ralph Losey about the challenge of converting lawyers to a paperless office, or at least an electronic centric office. His article revolves around Plato’s Cave allegory and his argument boils down to,
“Old lawyers have only ever known paper, thus they cannot see all the amazing benefits of e-discovery. Electronic lawyers cannot [...]
¶ Published Friday, January 22nd at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
News today that MiningWatch Canada won its Supreme Court case concerning the Red Chris mine.
Interestingly, the Supreme Court ruled that the project can move forward because the BC government had already given it the go ahead. But environmentalists are nonetheless claiming victory because the Court also ruled that from now on the federal government [...]
¶ Published Wednesday, January 20th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
The sheer scale of humanity, 6.5 billion souls, means that our daily actions matter. It is so easy to justify a bottle of water, a disposable cup, a fuel consuming vehicle, yada yada yada. Great article, “How bad can one bottle of water be, says the 30 millionth person today“. Take a look at this [...]
¶ Published Monday, January 18th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
Greenies have a romantic vision of green – living on a farm, eating bio and getting your power from solar and wind energy. The reality is that we are simply too many people, 6.5 billion at last count, to live like that. There is not enough land, water, wind or sun to power our society [...]
¶ Published Friday, January 15th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
On this blog, we have sung the praises of Bjorn Lomberg and his skepticism of doomsday global warming scenarios. There is no denying he has an ideological bend to his statements, but that does not mean he is wrong. Like anyone trying to make a point, he selectively chooses data and case studies. However, does [...]
¶ Published Thursday, January 7th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel Laureate and Professor in Economics at Columbia University, concludes that world leaders at the Copenhagen climate conference failed not only to reach a binding agreement, but also to agree on how to save the planet. An entirely new strategy is needed, he says, to effectively address climate change:
“Perhaps it [...]
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