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Douglas Nadler Using confrontational words makes Canada’s government a bully.

Using confrontational words makes Canada’s government a bully.



“Unfortunately, there are environmental and other radical groups that would seek to block this opportunity {B.C.’s pipeline} to diversify our trade. Joe Oliver, Minister of Natural Resources

“To judge from Oliver's nasty little letter, those vast pits of bitumen across Alberta aren't just dirtying the sky, they're starting to do some damage to the country's soul.”Bill McKibbon 350.org green…

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Added by Douglas Nadler on January 30, 2012 at 10:49am — 8 Comments

Douglas Nadler Cracking the Myths of the Methane Industry: Come out and see “Gasland

Cracking the Myths of the Methane Industry: Come out and see “Gasland”

“Hydraulic fracturing or fracking is a means of natural gas extraction employed in deep natural gas well drilling. Once a well is drilled, millions of gallons of water, sand and proprietary chemicals are injected, under high pressure, into a well. The pressure fractures the shale and props open fissures that enable natural gas to flow more freely out of the well.” Josh Fox, Film maker of the documentary, Gasland…

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Added by Douglas Nadler on January 3, 2012 at 4:31pm — No Comments

Douglas Nadler Polar Bears’ Plight and Occupy Wall Street Confront the Corporate State

“We know that the Canadian Government's domestic and international climate policy has been bought by the fossil fuel regime.” Cameron Fenton, Director of Canadian Youth Climate Coalition, writing from Durban, South Africa’s U.N. Climate Summit

The 1999 movie, “The Matrix”, starts off with it coming to light that humans have trashed the planet and the computers, who now run Earth, believe the planet is better off with the subjugation of humans. The computers run the planet like our…

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Added by Douglas Nadler on December 5, 2011 at 2:21pm — No Comments

Douglas Nadler George Monbiot on Wealth

George Monbiot: The 1% are the very best destroyers of wealth the world has ever seen



Our common treasury in the last 30 years has been captured by industrial psychopaths. That's why we're nearly bankrupt



guardian.co. Monday 7 November 2011



If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire. The claims that the ultra-rich 1% make for themselves – that they are possessed of unique intelligence or…

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Added by Douglas Nadler on November 8, 2011 at 8:30am — No Comments

Douglas Nadler Wind is Good. Let's Celebrate its Wise Use!

Wind is fair and good. Let's Celebrate its Wise Use.



"The Province of Ontario is on course to phase out the use of coal by 2014 and has adopted what is probably the single most effective piece of legislation promoting renewable energy in North America.{The Green Energy Act} This kind of action takes vision and know-how and shows the strong potential for Canada to be a world leader in tackling climate change." Excerpt from Nobel Women's Initiative… Continue

Added by Douglas Nadler on October 3, 2011 at 5:20pm — No Comments

Douglas Nadler First Vegetarian Restaurant Review

Georgian Triangle’s first Review of Great Vegetarian Restaurants

“Eating low on the food chain (i.e - vegan foods) ensures we are eating the least amount of toxins. Pollution carried around in the air and water gets concentrated 30 times in each animal that eats up the food chain. Even Organic meats are highly polluted because pollution is all around us. It is also a misconception that the vegan diet is more deficient than an animal foods diet. In fact, the fresh fruits, vegetables,…

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Added by Douglas Nadler on September 2, 2011 at 9:10pm — No Comments

Shane Jolley Around the Sound Disaster Relief

On May 18, 2011 we lost our dear Around the Sound Local Food Market to extensive damage from a fire caused by one wayward cigarette from one of the apartments above.  The repercussions of such a disaster are enormous.  This campaign initiated by a group of Around the Sound customers, is to raise funds for Anne…

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Added by Shane Jolley on August 3, 2011 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

Douglas Nadler Tim DeChristopher addressed the court and the judge today. This is what he said:

Thank you for the opportunity to speak before the court. When I first met Mr. Manross, the sentencing officer who prepared the pre-sentence report, he explained that it was essentially his job to “get to know me.” He said he had to get to know who I really was and why I did what I did in order to decide what kind of sentence was appropriate. I was struck by the fact that he was the first person in this courthouse to call me by my first name, or even really look me in the eye. I appreciate…

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Added by Douglas Nadler on July 29, 2011 at 10:37pm — No Comments

Shane Jolley Reform, don't eliminate municipal governments.

In recent months, much discussion has arisen about eliminating the local municipalities and councils in Grey and Bruce and moving to a single tier municipal government.  The services provided by our towns and townships, from filling potholes to local land use planning, would become the responsibility of the county.  Proponents claim that such backward measures are required to address rising costs and encourage more cooperation across current municipal boundaries. …

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Added by Shane Jolley on July 28, 2011 at 7:56pm — 3 Comments

Douglas Nadler Summer Readings for 2011 Take Us to New Heights for Inspiration and Action

“There is no such thing as a green pepper… All peppers start out some shade of green (either dark, light or yellowish) and gradually turn red, yellow, orange or even purple as they mature and sweeten. A green pepper, like a green tomato, is simply unripe.” Patrick Lima and John Scanlan’s “The Organic Home Gardener”

“Nature loves man, beetles, and birds with the same love.” John Muir

“We have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling…

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Added by Douglas Nadler on July 26, 2011 at 2:58pm — No Comments

Douglas Nadler World Population Day makes us Reflect on Sane and Compassionate Actions

“As things are today, even without any further increases in world population, if every person in the world were to start consuming as Americans {Canadians} do, humanity would require the resources of at least two additional planet Earths to support it.” Paul and Anne Ehrlich

World Population Day (July 11), created after the world had 5 billion people in 1987, and integrated with other world initiatives, celebrates, educates and finds solutions for a growing population and our planet’s… Continue

Added by Douglas Nadler on July 12, 2011 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Douglas Nadler Climate, Food, Population, and Biodiversity Highlight Youth’s Concerns

Climate, Food, Population, and Biodiversity Highlight Youth’s Concerns



“We need a new system that no longer concentrates power and control of the food chain in the hands of a few global corporations and interest groups, at the expense of everyone else, one that puts diversity at its heart and respects the limits of the natural world, rather than trying to override them.” Joanna Blythman, The Guardian, U.K.



Have you ever noticed that people will call you ‘passionate’ about… Continue

Added by Douglas Nadler on June 6, 2011 at 9:38pm — No Comments

Douglas Nadler Canada on Secret Oil Offensive: Documents Foreign ministry's tar sands team rebranding Alberta oil in Europe

Canada on Secret Oil Offensive: Documents Foreign ministry's tar sands team rebranding Alberta oil in Europe by Martin Lukacs MONTREAL

-The Canadian government has been carrying out a secret plan in Europe to boost investment and keep world markets open for the Alberta tar sands, collaborating with major oil companies and aggressively undermining European environmental measures, documents obtained by The Dominion reveal. In 2009 the federal government launched a strategy to "protect…

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Added by Douglas Nadler on May 27, 2011 at 8:05pm — No Comments

Shane Jolley Peak Oil - How Will You Ride the Slide?

Added by Shane Jolley on May 24, 2011 at 9:50am — No Comments

Allison Brown Thursday Help - Around the Sound, Owen Sound

I'm sure many of you have heard the unfortunate news about the fire in the Around the Sound Local Food Market building in Owen Sound.

Anne, the owner, has asked for some help tomorrow, Thursday May 19 from 3-6 pm.

Hands are needed to take the inventory off the premises.  Some of it can be kept, some of it needs a temporary storage spot, and some of it needs to be taken to waste disposal. People can come with boxes or bags, and especially…

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Added by Allison Brown on May 18, 2011 at 9:08pm — 1 Comment

Shane Jolley An Ill Wind



Only a government could take something as pure and simple as wind and make it more despised than a snowstorm in July.
 
I follow the continued debate about wind power in Ontario with dismay, as both proponents and opponents distort the facts to fortify their positions. To some, the…
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Added by Shane Jolley on May 12, 2011 at 3:00pm — 3 Comments

Shane Jolley School Blues

As I sat through the Provincial budget presentation at Queen’s Park last week, I couldn’t help but scoff under my breath as Finance Minister Dwight Duncan droned on endlessly about protecting education. This, while we’re going through two school accommodation reviews in our region, one in Chesley/Hanover, and the other in Kincardine.

 

The term “accommodation review” is bureaucrat-speak for “enrolment is down and we need to cut costs, so something has to…

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Added by Shane Jolley on May 11, 2011 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment

Douglas Nadler Youth do it all as their actions transform our Community

Youth do it all as their actions transform our Community



“The Council of All Beings is a communal ritual in which participants step aside from their human identity and speak on behalf of another life-form. A simple structure for spontaneous expression, it aims to heighten awareness of our interdependence in the living body of Earth, and to strengthen our commitment to defend it. The ritual serves to help us acknowledge and give voice to the suffering of our world. It also serves, in… Continue

Added by Douglas Nadler on May 9, 2011 at 9:21pm — No Comments

Allison Brown Rebooting Civilization

Click here to listen to "Rebooting Civilization"

If your internet connection permits it, check out this link to an interesting radio episode. CBC Radio's The Current presents approx. 25 minutes addressing what our civilization could look like if we started from scratch.

Energy is addressed at 12:20 minutes. It includes reference to oil, the electrical grid and a shift to…

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Added by Allison Brown on May 7, 2011 at 1:24pm — No Comments

Douglas Nadler Chris Hedges sums up the collapse of globalization.

The Collapse of Globalization

By Chris Hedges



The uprisings in the Middle East, the unrest that is tearing apart

nations such as the Ivory Coast, the bubbling discontent in Greece,

Ireland and Britain and the labor disputes in states such as Wisconsin

and Ohio presage the collapse of globalization. They presage a world

where vital resources, including food and water, jobs and security, are

becoming scarcer and harder to obtain. They presage growing… Continue

Added by Douglas Nadler on April 17, 2011 at 1:40pm — No Comments

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