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How fools progress

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Thu, 2010-09-02

There are days I wonder if I'm out of my depth homesteading. (I'm a new homesteader in rural Ontario.

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An exemplary garden at 7,400 feet altitude

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Thu, 2010-09-02

Boulder, where I live, is approximately 5,430 feet above sea level, or just over a mile.

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Review of Brenda Boardman’s Fixing Fuel Poverty

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Thu, 2010-09-02

Brenda Boardman continues to do pioneering work in the field of fuel poverty in Britain.

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The Recession is Over, Now I Start the Depression

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Thu, 2010-09-02

Over the past two years economic pundits have said we are in a recession, defined flippantly as starting when your neighbor loses his job. Certainly today, with US unemployment at around 10%, and Canadian unemployment in the high single digits, you may know people who have lost their jobs. A depression is said to be signaled when you lose your own job. That is where I am today.

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It's the Feelgood Hit of the Summer (in Arts and Culture)

Syndicated from The Tyee on Thu, 2010-09-02

And it's not what you think it is.

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Green Wizardry: A response to Rob Hopkins

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-09-01

Rob Hopkins' critique of the "Green Wizards" project explored in recent Archdruid Report posts raises challenging questions: some of them about the project in question, others about the relationship between differing efforts to respond to a challenging future. The Archdruid offers his take on both subjects.

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Climate - Sept 2

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-09-01

- Bill McKibben on David Letterman: "Thanks for scaring the crap out of me, Bill!"
- Bjørn Lomborg's about face on climate
- The Lomborg Deception
- Poorer nations hit with 'exorbitant' consultancy fees for carbon offset projects
- The Coming Flood of Climate Refugees
- At a climate camp convergence and protest in Quebec

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How much proof do the global warming deniers need?

Syndicated from Oil Sands Truth on Wed, 2010-09-01

Johann Hari: How much proof do the global warming deniers need?

Everything the climate scientists said would happen - with their pesky graphs and studies and computers - is coming to pass. This is proving the hottest year ever

Friday, 27 August 2010

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West Moberly says Site C would power tar sands not homes

Syndicated from Oil Sands Truth on Wed, 2010-09-01

West Moberly says Site C would power tar sands not homes

Monday, 30 August 2010

Amid a bevy of resource projects in northeast B.C., the West Moberly First Nation claims the province is green-washing its Site C hydroelectric project.

“It’s not clean and it’s not green,” West Moberly Chief Roland Willson told BIV in a recent interview.

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Protecting the Tar Sands, Protecting Capitalism

Syndicated from Oil Sands Truth on Wed, 2010-09-01

Whatever It Takes:
Protecting the Tar Sands, Protecting Capitalism
Ryan Katz-Rosene

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September 27, 1962: Tar Sand Project Approval Starts New Era For Canadian Oil

Syndicated from Oil Sands Truth on Wed, 2010-09-01

September 27, 1962
Tar Sand Project Approval Starts New Era For Canadian Oil

BY: CARL O. NICKLE, Publisher of the Daily Oil Bulletin & Oil In Canada

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Overworked and Underpaid? Productivity Increases, But Wage Growth Declines

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-09-01

by Akito Yoshikane

As Labor Day approaches, many Americans are breathing a sigh of relief for the extra day off. On a day that celebrates unions and the eight-hour work day, many workers are feeling like their hard work isn’t exactly paying off the way it used to.

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Judge Rules Against US Government on Oil Drilling

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-09-01

HOUSTON - A federal judge on Wednesday rejected the U.S. government's request to dismiss an industry lawsuit challenging its deepwater oil and gas drilling moratorium, dealing another blow to the Obama administration.

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CCPA Saskatchewan presents Trevor Herriot

Syndicated from CCPA on Wed, 2010-09-01

Join us on October 15th and 16th for a special evening with Trevor Herriot. A renowned prairie naturalist, essayist and commentator, Trevor will discuss the intersection of culture and nature on the northern Great Plains in his talk entitled "All Flesh is Grass: Toward a Re-Engagement with the Prairie." Please come out to on

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Senate Trying To Slip Internet Kill Switch Past Us

Syndicated from Slashdot on Wed, 2010-09-01

sanermind writes "Sensing Senators don't have the stomach to try and pass a stand-alone bill in broad daylight that would give the President the power to shut down the Internet in a national emergency, the Senate is considering attaching the Internet Kill Switch bill as a rider to other legislation that would have bi-partisan support."
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