A PR rep working for the David Suzuki Foundation contacted me today about an awareness and fund-raising campaign premised on the melting of the North Pole because of climate change. Under this premise, Santa Claus has to relocate. Where will he move to? I was directed to the fund-raising website, called “Where will Santa...
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Dithering in Durban: no nuclear, no climate progress
Another world climate conference in an exotic remote location, another hundred or so airplane tankfuls of kerosene turned into carbon dioxide (CO2) and dumped into the atmosphere—all in the name of getting together to talk about how not to dump so much CO2 into the atmosphere. Is that how the Durban conference will go...
Occupy Ottawa update II: it’s still possible to run on grid power
A lot of the criticism of the Occupy phenomenon has centred on its general incoherence on substantive policy. What do the Occupiers want? The movement started with Occupy Wall Street, which might suggest disapproval of the Wall Street bailouts from 2008 and 2009 and a belief that the Street brought the financial calamity on...
Occupy Ottawa update: why they’re using gasoline
Following on my rather judgmental November 16 post, I just spoke to some of the protesters at Occupy Ottawa. Very friendly people. I asked about the gasoline generator that is providing power to the site: couldn’t they just plug into the grid? They told me the National Capital Commission (NCC), which owns Confederation Park,...
What lights up Occupy Ottawa? It could and should be clean energy, but it’s not
This is the first of a three-article series. The other articles are “Occupy Ottawa update: why they’re using gasoline” and “Occupy Ottawa update II: it’s still possible to run on grid power.” I wonder when Bob Dylan’s classic “The Times They Are a-Changin’” will become the anthem for the Occupy protests that have swept...
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