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In our backyard: What climate change in Canada looks like — Read on www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/inourbackyard/index.html Canada’s public broadcaster, the CBC, has created and excellent web resource highlighting some of the predicted and real impacts the changing climate will have on Canada
I can’t remember the last time I read a full-featured magazine article through to the end – and last night, while sipping coffee on the back deck, I read two. I’m finding, more and more, that many articles found in
The Anthroposphere: The realm of Humans Although we depend entirely on the Atmosphere, Biosphere and Lithosphere for life as we know it, the Anthroposphere distinguishes our life and decision-making from that of the rest of the abiotic and biotic world.
This is another in a series of Weekend Wanderings posts with many links to follow. It centres around the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. It used to be (and still is, to a large degree)
A definitive study has been released in Canada that more accurately quantifies the amount of food wasted each year in terms of both avoidable waste and unavoidable waste. In total, almost 58% of Canadian food production is wasted. Of that,
Actually, it’s an even better example of why interdisciplinary studies is so essential – a nexus of history, geography, geology, history and chemistry. Perhaps ‘archeaogeochemistry’. From the World Economic Forum: How climate change caused the world’s first empire to collapse
The trigger for this blog post was a recent CBC Marketplace episode about how Canadian grocery stores can reduce or eliminate plastics by adopting the methods and means of a UK grocery store: Canada’s major grocery chains slow to tackle
Excellent CBC article from the Sunday Edition (January 2019) How can we stop overtourism from ruining the world’s great cities and natural wonders? and the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) reports Executive Summary – excellent reading and research doc (12
GDP has had its share of ups and downs recently, both in real terms and as an indicator. If economy was the only thing worth measuring, then a case can be made for GDP, but it’s not. The World Economic
A fascinating, yet soberingly unfortunate geologic event that deserves some coverage here. BBC has some excellent insights: Indonesian tsunami: death toll rises from Anak Krakatau rises as well as The Guardian: Indonesian authorities raise Anak Krakatau threat level
There are no passengers on
Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
– Marshall McLuhan
