Field work: orations of a bitter oceanographer

Things to do on a boat, by David Semeniuk.

Spend 3 days waiting to go to sea.
Surf the net for three days while waiting to go to sea.
Eat freshly baked cookies for three days while waiting to go to sea.
Go through your entire ration of exquisite coffe…

Local Futures Conference: Tom Karas

I’m attending the International Conference in Peak Oil and Climate Change in Grand Rapids, MI this weekend. Tom Karas’s session looked at coal generation for electricity. His argument, essentially, was that transportation and housing would more or less take care…

The last workin day :S

The daiz r gettin longer the progress gettin stressful but everything pulling thru yay =)
Ev1 is tired n almost done n gettin frustrated but in the end all is well.
luv piece ooligan grease

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CP Spirit of 150 Rail Tour – Schedule of Events

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From June 12 to July 6, the CP Spirit of 150 Rail Tour will visit 33 communities in the Kootenays, the Rockies, the Shuswap, Kamloops, the Fraser Canyon and Vancouver as part of the year-long BC150 celebration.
The CP Spirit of 150 Rail Tour is co-sponsored by Canadian Pacific, which is operating, staffing and maintaining [...]

Railway Standards not being met

Vancouver Sun
A ‘culture of fear’ at Canadian National Railway is making it difficult for employees to report safety violations that raise the risk of derailments and other accidents, a federal parliamentary committee says in a new report to the House of Commons.
The report confirms what has been fairly common knowledge among those interested in railways [...]

Then again, sometimes it is the fruits of those labours

The beets are up. Don’t ask me what kind of beets they are — I’ve discovered there are dozens of varieties of everything — but they’re definitely beets of some sort. Even the leaves have thick veins of that distinctive crimson red running through them….(read more)

Should we all be paying for our polluting ways?

When Stephane Dion indicated a tax on greenhouse gas
emissions would be a central plank in the Liberals’ next election
platform, he declared it was a good policy that would also make for
“good politics.”

Tropical forests axed in favour of palm oil

Over half of Indonesia and Malaysia’s palm oil plantations came at the expense of forests, despite the countries’ claims to the contrary

Renown glaciologist dies

Fritz Koerner was one of Canada’s most respected glaciologists and a veteran of one of the most daring expeditions that ever took place in the Far North.

Ontario and Quebec to explore cap-and-trade

A historic meeting next week between the governments of Quebec and Ontario could lay the groundwork for an interprovincial carbon trading system aimed at reducing greenhouse gases.Both governments…