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Canada – No new coal plants?

Posted in Environment, tagged , , , , on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

For a minute I thought the pain from playing volleyball last night, plus opening my computer up sleepily at 5:45 in the morning before catching an early bus to work had me hallucinating, but yes, the Canadian federal government actually wants to impose a moratorium on the construction of new coal fired power plants unless [...]

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Goldman Prize – The Green Nobel – Google Earth Narrative

Posted in Environment, tagged on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This is very inspiring, and wonderful to watch.
The Goldman Prize has developed a tour that uses 3-D Google Earth imagery to tell the stories of the 2009 Prize recipients. Narrated by Robert Redford, the tour allows viewers to travel the world, visiting huge mountaintop removal mines, ship breaking yards and other locations where the [...]

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Canada and Greenhouse Gases – Epic Fail

Posted in Environment on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Canada’s greenhouse emissions soaring: UN report
The figures are based on the 2009 national inventory report that Environment Canada quietly filed last week with the United Nations to meet its international reporting obligations. The full 673-page inventory is available on the UN’s website and shows Canada has the dubious distinction of having its emissions climb more [...]

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Obama to regulate ‘pollutant’ CO2

Posted in Environment, tagged , , on April 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »

The US government is to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, having decided that it and five other greenhouse gases may endanger human health and well-being. The Environmental Protection Agency EPA announced the move following a review of the scientific evidence.
via BBC
Not unexpected, was the long culmination of a series of events resulting from a 2007 Supreme [...]

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Circumcision and AIDS – Revisited

Posted in Health, culture, public health, tagged , on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A post I wrote quite a while back on circumcision and AIDS remains my most commented post ever. In it (if you’re too lazy to click) I said that while research indicating a reduction in HIV infection in circumcised men was promising, there were a couple of concerns. One, that this could be a distraction [...]

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Health Canada report ties asbestos to lung cancer

Posted in Environment, Health, tagged , on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Health Canada sat for more than a year on a report by a panel of international experts that concludes there is a “strong relationship” between lung cancer and chrysotile asbestos mined in Canada.
Health Canada received the report in March 2008, resisting calls from the panel chairman to release the findings despite his plea last fall [...]

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A Year in BC

Posted in Personal on April 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Or at least, it was when I started this post, now it’s almost 13 months!

 It is still beautiful, breathtakingly so
 We feel more settled for some reason, even though it is a new place
 Definitely more relaxed than I’ve ever been, which is saying a lot
 The cat is getting fatter, wait, that’s always been true
 Making friends is [...]

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