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Skot Nelson

Coffee Cup Deposits are an Excellent Idea

This is an even better idea than banning plastic bags. Not that I like plastic bags. "Coffee cup deposit-return urged": http://www.thestar.com/article/512299 Companies must move on deposit-return recycling of containers, waste expert says Oct 06, 2008 04:30 AM, MOIRA WELSH, ENVIRONMENT REPORTER...

Charity

Now I'm Curious

I read an article on Yahoo that was talking about slashing your carbon footprint by going vegetarian. Now, I know that there are multiple health benefits to going vegetarian, but I'd never thought there would be environmental benefits. The problem is, they don't really give those of us who are...

Fragmentally Yours

What does "stoic" mean?

Well, if you ask Merriam-Webster, they'll tell you it means "one apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain". I guess, in a way, that's true. But, what it really means is that so long as you don't take everything so seriously that everything affects how you feel you remain stoic. In...

Skot Nelson

Coming Soon: The Federal Royal Commission

Given the history of Vancouver politics, I'm completely unsurprised by yet another delay. Paul Martin could make a decision faster than our civic government. I'm expecting a Royal Commission followed by a judicial inquiry into it's findings. After that, no doubt, the First Nations will launch a...

Skot Nelson

A Special Moment in History - The Atlantic Monthly

In May of 1998 the Atlantic Monthy print an article called A Special Moment in History It beings with a caution to: BEWARE of people preaching that we live in special times. People have preached that message before, and those who listened sold their furniture and climbed up on rooftops to await...

Tempest in a Teapot

Bloom Device

At first I fell in love with the Bloom Device, a bubble blower that attaches to a bike. The bubbles are filled with seeds, turning you into a mechanized Johnny Appleseed. "Subversive and and inspirational"... maybe. My problem is that I found this link through Hugg, so I assume this is supposed to...