Our Schools Our Selves: Summer 2008

B.C. carbon tax kicks in on Canada Day

British Columbians will pay more at the gas pump as the provincial government’s carbon tax on all fossil fuels takes effect Tuesday.

New Brunswick town abuzz as millions of bees set loose

Anyone with a bee allergy in St. Leonard, N.B., was encouraged to stay in and keep the windows shut yesterday after a truck carrying an estimated 20 million honey bees flipped onto a median of the…

More on Community Land Trusts

I am pleased to be able to pass along a link to the Lincoln Land Institute’s newsletter which brings news of John Emmanuel Davis (a visiting fellow there) and a new initiative in Boston. You may recall he spoke at SFU about housing affordability earlier this year

Montreal Climate Exchange

The Montreal Climate Exchange (MCeX), a joint venture of the Montreal Exchange (MX) and the Chicago Climate Exchang… [Full Story]

VIDEO: Aussie Platypuses Suffer Illness

Australian scientists are conducting field studies to track a fungal infection that has been killing Tasmanian platypuses for more than 25 years.

Growing it is only half the battle

You plant a seed, it grows, and providing the bugs stay away and the sun shines, there is a lettuce or spinach plant where there once was naked ground. It is a sight to savour. If that lettuce or spinach is in your own garden and ready to harvest, you…(read more)

the way of the future ?

As I write this, work is underway in my neighbourhood to prepare a house for demolition. A house that is in great condition, with mature trees and, before it sold, pretty landscaping. Unfortunately, a developer bought the house and deemed it way to sma…

Violent sex means chameleons die young

A tiny chameleon from Madagascar spends two-thirds of its life inside its egg, engages in brutal sex, then dies after four months

Can a cow hormone help save the environment?

A controversial hormone lets cows make more milk using less energy, according to a new study – environmentalists criticise it as “greenwashing”