Shinerama Excitement!
Newsflash. The money raised during Shine Day (Sept 8th) for the UBC 2007 Shinerama Campaign has finally been counted! That means buckets upon buckets of pennies,…
Read articleWhoa… UBC interchange email has been down for a while (that can’t be good)
… and really inconvenient for those of us, who pretty function around our ability to communicate through the email. Anyway, the bulletins at IT services have…
Read articleMichael Ignatieff is coming for a chat!
Well, actually he is coming to give a “talk” but what the heck. Most Canadians know Michael Ignatieff as the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Opposition…
Read articleMaldives 1: In search of the sinking islands
In preparation for a trip to the Maldives that I will be taking in November, I’ve decided to exercise my considerable powers of curiosity and bulk up on random…
Read articleSENSibility 3: Time for an Extinction Clock?
Earlier this month the World Conservation Union identified more than 16,000 species threatened with extinction. Prospects for survival improved for exactly one species on the planet…
Read articleWinners from the Writing Challenge!! (Season 2)
Well, it took a while to formally announce this, but here are the winners to last season’s writing challenge. Check out the links, and see what…
Read articleOld MacDonald Had a Farm, so Does UBC
The Trek to the farm may be long, but on a nice fall sunny day, when the wind is blowing and the leaves are falling, hop…
Read articleGreen Drinks on Campus
For networking and random chatting about all things green on campus, check this out (you’ll notice that the event on the poster has already occurred, but…
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SENSibility 4: Gore’s Film has Nine Errors (But Students can Still Watch It)
By Allen Sens,
A British High Court judge has ruled that Al Gore’s climate film, An Inconvenient Truth, contains nine “scientific errors.” According to Justice Burton, the nine “errors”…
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