readings

so I decided to start reading Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. should be uplifting and fun.

And for you, maybe some reading if you like BC and its political games.

How We Got Screwed on Terasen Deal
by Rafe Mair

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We are quickly moving to the place where American needs for oil, gas and water will trump our needs for the same. Moreover, the environmental problems this will raise will be ours not theirs and the profits not ours but theirs too.

We have taken a Canadian company that controlled the natural gas we use and turned it over to a foreign owner to use what should be our profits, public profits, to build American pipelines from the tar sands to America
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-The Tyee.ca
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And more to read. There's a bunch of intersting ideas throughout this series.

Living on the Hundred-Mile Diet
By Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon
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For the average American meal (and we assume the average Canadian meal is similar), World Watch reports that the ingredients typically travel between 2,500 and 4,000 kilometres, a 25 percent increase from 1980 alone. This average meal uses up to 17 times more petroleum products, and increases carbon dioxide emissions by the same amount, compared to an entirely local meal.

Let's translate that into the ecological footprint model devised by Dr. William Rees of UBC which measures how many planets'-worth of resources would be needed if everyone did the same. If you had an average North American lifestyle in every other way, from driving habits to the size of your house, by switching to a local diet you would save almost an entire planet's worth of resources (though you'd still be gobbling up seven earths).
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The Tyee.ca
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