thegreenjournal.ca | 2008 June 21

Cities mull drive-thru bans to combat pollution

Source: thegreenpages Newswire ⋅ June 21, 2008 ⋅

The debate over drive-thrus continues to simmer across the country as communities ponder whether doing business through the car window is still a good idea in the wake of air quality and traffic…

World unprepared for coming catastrophes, warn experts

Source: NPL Environment top stories ⋅ June 21, 2008 ⋅

TORONTO -Hand sanitizer was abundant at this year’s World
Conference on Disaster Management, as were tsunami sirens, enormous
ambulance RVs and the earnest faces of some 2,000 crisis experts who
gathered last week in Toronto to draw the world’s attention to a
seemingly growing list of international emergencies.

Tsawwassen treaty takedown

Source: Stephen Rees's blog ⋅ June 21, 2008 ⋅

Margaret Wente in the Globe and Mail talks to Bertha Williams and throws doubt at the treaty, but misses at one significant point.
“The government desperately needs land for a massive container port to expand our vital shipping trade to Asia.”
That one sentence shows that she really has not done her homework. The government doesn’t “need” [...]

Tsawwassen treaty takedown

Source: Stephen Rees's blog ⋅ June 21, 2008 ⋅

Margaret Wente in the Globe and Mail talks to Bertha Williams and throws doubt at the treaty, but misses at one significant point.
“The government desperately needs land for a massive container port to expand our vital shipping trade to Asia.”
That one sentence shows that she really has not done her homework. The government doesn’t “need” [...]

Liberal carbon tax would ‘screw everybody’: Harper

Source: NPL Environment top stories ⋅ June 21, 2008 ⋅

The Liberals’ proposed national carbon tax would not only “screw the west” like the National Energy Program of the 1980s, but would “screw everybody across the country,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Friday

Liberal carbon tax would ‘screw everybody’: Harper

Source: NPL Environment top stories ⋅ June 21, 2008 ⋅

The Liberals’ proposed national carbon tax would not only “screw the west” like the National Energy Program of the 1980s, but would “screw everybody across the country,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Friday

Everyone complains about gas prices

Source: Stephen Rees's blog ⋅ June 21, 2008 ⋅

but how many actually do much about it?
This is just based on personal observation, not on anything I have read. Although there have been a plethora of stories in the media about people who are switching to transit or using their bikes. What I have noticed is that as gas prices have risen steeply driving [...]

Everyone complains about gas prices

Source: Stephen Rees's blog ⋅ June 21, 2008 ⋅

but how many actually do much about it?
This is just based on personal observation, not on anything I have read. Although there have been a plethora of stories in the media about people who are switching to transit or using their bikes. What I have noticed is that as gas prices have risen steeply driving [...]