A Local Food Feast
For the first time in my three years living in Vancouver, I was able to return for (American) Thanksgiving to my hometown of Pullman, in southeastern…
Read articleTEDtalks: Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law
This talk is really quite remarkable. Larry hails from Stanford Law, and is an eminent authority on copyright, particularly as it pertains to this crazy world…
Read articleToday is buy nothing day… (although you can still get some stuff because of it)
Here’s what wiki says about consumerism: Consumerism is the equating of personal happiness with the purchasing of material possessions and consumption. Just so you know, today…
Read articleChina’s Economy – At a Cost
As China’s rapid economic expansion grows, it leaves a legacy of serious environmental degradation. Industrialization and urbanization in the country endured an absence of effective or…
Read articleUnconventional Crude
A few weeks ago, the New Yorker ran an excellent piece called “Unconventional Crude” which focused on Canada’s tar sands. It was written by Elizabeth Kolbert,…
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DEFENDING FOOD FREEDOM
IN A PERIOD OF FOOD FASCISM
DR. VANDANA SHIVA – MARCH 12th, 2007
Quicktime 7 Required “Defending Food Freedom in a Preriod of Food Fascism.” (March 12th, 2007, Chan Shun Concert Hall, Chan Centre) AUDIO | PODCAST | VIDEO…
Read articleHans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you’ve ever seen
This has got to be one of my favourite TEDtalks. For more info go here.
Read articleThe business of death.
Driving in this morning, I heard that there was an individual that managed to catch the taser death of Robert Dziekanski at the Vancouver International Airport…
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Poverty Begets Poor Eating Habits
By Dave Semeniuk,
I remember hearing this before – but apparently this is the first major American study of its kind: “The Rising Cost of Low-Energy-Density Foods” (Monsivais and…
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