I got all excited this morning when I found out that Google maps is now supporting biking directions. Then, of course, I discovered that it’s not available in Canada yet. Boo! Had a lot of fun playing around with it though, as I’m planning a cycling trip through Vermont in a couple of months. It [...]
Posts Tagged ‘bicycles’
4 Jan
New Year News
So here are some interesting things from around the internet on this the first EcoMonday of the new year: Other Worlds Are Possible: the sixth report from the New Economics Foundation. If you’re looking for something to read that isn’t wholly pessimistic, this is pretty interesting stuff. Note that it’s a PDF download and pretty [...]
26 Nov
Moral analysis
Here’s a great article about our project from Resurgence Magazine by Jack Santa Barbara, the Director of the Sustainable Scale Project and Associate of the Centre for Peace Studies at McMaster University. The neoclassical economic paradigm that has been so successful at providing material goods is clearly identified as the main culprit in both the [...]
27 Oct
350 in Montreal
Some days, in the environmental movement, you feel like you’re some sort of small squishy creature making brave noises just before the great corporate-political-industrial juggernaut squashes you. Some days, you feel very alone. Saturday was not one of those days. As everyone probably knows, it was the International Day of Climate Action, where people all [...]
16 Oct
Countdown to 350
Eight days to go till the International Day of Action on Climate Change. There are about ten events scheduled in Montreal; I’m planning to join the Concordia bike ride. Yeah, it’s a pretty ordinary kind of demonstration, but I’m okay with that; there are plenty of wacky events going on all the time too, and [...]
