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Ontario's new Waste Diversion Act
For some time rumours have circulated in Ontario that Environment Minister Jim Bradley and his staff have been working on a new piece of legislation to move a file forward that got dropped unceremoniously by a previous minister, who had…
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Is Peak Oil dead?/NEB and Pump Station Safety
For years we have listened to the post-Limits to Growth crowd drone on about “peak oil.” To my mind, the hypothesis that the planet would reach its peak production of oil and energy at a certain date was untestable as…
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Our Waste 2 Product & Energy Cleantech Conference
In case you missed the memo, our one-day event about turning waste into energy and products is only a few weeks away. Entitled the “Waste 2 Energy Cleantech Conference,” the event takes place on Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at the…
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Lawrence Solomon skewers global warming hype
Lawrence Solomon, the Executive Director of Energy Probe and someone whose writing and opinions I respect greatly, has continued to write an article series dispelling the assumptions people have that the Earth’s climate is warming. (His bio is at the…
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OWMA's excellent product stewardship ideas
It’s not every day that I encounter an editorial that I read and then say to myself, “I wish I’d written that!” The article below (and Sun letter) appeared in the Toronto media recently, reflecting ideas developed by the Ontario…
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Back to the Future: The Beer Store’s Recycling Plus in Perspective
Image: Sung, One of North Toronto’s numerous soft drink can recyclers, July 2012. Photo credit: David McRobert. Authors’ Note: This blog was drafted on February 17th but I was unable to load it due to technical and software…
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Facts about paper bags and trees
There are several decades-long running battles in the waste management and recycling business between different stakeholders that remind me of those civil wars in central African countries that never seem to end. While the things the different parties say about…
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Obama’s next opponent: our vast network of climate denial think tanks
According to the Guardian, the funds, doled out between 2002 and 2010, helped build a vast network of think tanks and activist groups working to a single purpose: to redefine climate change from neutral scientific fact to a highly polarizing “wedge issue” for hardcore conservatives.
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Response to The Myth of Human Progress
A friend of mine, Martin Millican (a partner in fast-growth IT company Envoke.com), wrote a letter in response to my post last week on an article from TruthDig.com I reproduce his letter here, with some comments of my own inside…
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The Myth of Human Progress
I found this article on the myth of human progress from TruthDig.com very interesting and thought share it with readers. My favourite paragraph contains this gem: “We must transcend our evolutionary history. We’re Ice Age hunters with a shave and…