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Alberta Greens: Best ever result with 23% second place finish & Doubling Vote
Blog | Monday, 14 Jan 2008Alberta Green candidate Joe Anglin won 23% of the vote in Lacome—Ponoka placing second. This is the best finish ever for the Green Party in Alberta. Edwin Erickson also placed second in Drayton...
Help Windsor Green blog win Best New Blog -- vote for them!!
Blog | Monday, 14 Jan 2008I received this from Chris Holt in Windsor: OK, it's time for Windsor to ask for a hand. We've been nominated for the coveted "Best New Blog" award from the Canadian Blog Awards, and we need your...
Greens Surpass NDP in Ontario for 1st time ever
Blog | Saturday, 12 Jan 2008The Green Party of Canada has surpassed the NDP for the first time ever in vote rich Ontario (38% of all votes in the 2006 federal election were cast in Ontario). Harris Decima’s most recent poll (...
Regulating an inherently dangerous business
Blog | Wednesday, 09 Jan 2008Nuclear power is in a class by itself as a technology. Fred Knelman once referred to nuclear as “a future technology whose time has passed.” That fits. It is an unforgiving technology. A...
Google: How to Save 40 B kWhr at no Cost!
Blog | Monday, 07 Jan 2008Google has pointed out how the PC industry could save 40 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity over three years – or more than $5 billion in power at current California electricity rates – at “...
Holiday Madness
Blog | Friday, 04 Jan 2008Holiday time gave me a chance to catch up on things that needed doing, but that I never have time to do -- passport renewal application, re-connecting a phone that Bell disconnected in error, a...
Layton Urged to Support May's TV debates Inclusion by NOW Magazine
Blog | Monday, 24 Dec 2007The Editor and CEO of NOW Magazine is urging Jack Layton to argue for Elizabeth May's inclusion in the televised leaders debates. Now Magazine is the largest circulation weekly free newspaper in...
How the Grinch stole Christmas
Blog | Saturday, 22 Dec 2007I am still in shock that the Nova Scotia Minister of Environment has refused to provide an extension for public comments on the Focus Report for a proposed open pit gold mine in Moose River, Nova...
UPS saves 3M gallons by Avoiding Lefts
Blog | Wednesday, 19 Dec 2007UPS saves 3 million gallons by not turning Left The company employs a hyperefficient “package flow” software program, which maps out routes for every one of its drivers, drastically reducing the...
What happened in Bali??
Blog | Sunday, 16 Dec 2007The dust is settling, the weary heroes of Bali are mostly asleep in airplanes heading home after what was the most dramatic cliff-hanger in the history of U.N. climate negotiations. (And that is...