by Andrew T. Barton | Apr 27, 2010 | Activism, Blog, Consumption, Habitat Destruction, Polution
I have felt quite incensed by a number of issues that are currently in the news. First, there was the oil well accident in Gulf of Mexico that cost 11 lives and the on-going attempts to cap the leaking well. The well is still pumping 42,000 gallons of oil a day into...
by Andrew T. Barton | Apr 25, 2010 | Activism, Blog, Health, Plastic, Polution, Transition Towns
Good Stuff Transition Towns On Saturday night I was very excited to attend the first meeting of Transition Town Kelowna. It was a first step where we met some like-minded folks who have a feeling in their guts there is something out of wack and we need to do something...
by Andrew T. Barton | Apr 22, 2010 | Activism, Blog, Climate Change, Habitat Destruction
Today is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, a day designated to promote the awareness and appreciation of the Earth–our home and provider. Looking around the world it would be easy to think that Earth Day has not been entirely successful, as you will see later...
by Andrew T. Barton | Apr 20, 2010 | Blog, Update
I thought I would change the layout of the blog to hopefully make it a bit more readable. I had noticed, with the use of various heading levels I was adding in, it was getting a bit hard to understand. Hopefully, this will improve things a bit. Comments and feedback...
by Andrew T. Barton | Apr 19, 2010 | Blog, Climate Change, Spin
I came across two articles recently that discussed some issues surrounding climate change. They are interesting articles in their own right–perhaps for different reasons–but what really interested me were the comments posted about the articles. The first...