Look Around You
Isn’t it wonderful when you look around you and see beauty?
Do you often find yourself reading web-pages that have lots of ads, tabs, login buttons, animations etc? I find that some web-pages are distracting and that it takes longer to read the story that brought me there or that it is harder to focus on the story and ignore the background images. This situation can sometimes lead me to…
Tonight I was watching a regular program on one of our national tv channels, the program Ear To The Ground focuses on rural and agricultural issues and tonight the featured discussion was on genetically modified food crops. Sadly I didn’t find it a balanced piece, i thought that it was slanted in favour of GM,…
An excerpt from Sustainable Energy – without the hot air – David J.C. MacKay UIT Cambridge, 2008. ISBN 978-0-9544529-3-3. Available free online from www.withouthotair.com. “One of the main sinks of energy in the “developed” world is the creation of stuff. In its natural life cycle, stuff passes through three stages. First, a new-born stuff is…
I thought that this was worth putting out there… “The Cove” – Save Japan Dolphins Bulletin Posted by David Phillips Dear Cause Members, It was with great sadness that we learned of the death of Dawn Brancheau, who by all accounts was a loving and talented caretaker for Tilikum (Tilly), the killer whale who took…
Shell have been guilty of many attrocites across the world and their guilt is a well accepted fact for most people. Across the planet, in the places where fossil fuels are sourced, people are resisting new energy developments and this has often brought the them up against the might of Shell. It’s easy to buy…