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Having been born and raised in a small town that’s rarely on the map and hadn’t heard of cable until last year, Katie Kish was practically forced to spend most of her childhood cavorting outside, exploring fields, rivers and the surrounding pseudo-forests. Her teen-years veered her towards the Greater Toronto Area in Ontario where she would become strongly grounded in her environmentalist views, although at the same time fall in love with city life. This was also the time in her life when she started her wicked rock collection.
Katie’s interest in environmental policy and philosophy has now led her into her second year of her undergraduate study in political science and philosophy at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario. In her spare time she does some documentary work at a couple local radio stations and is the multi-media director for the Center of Inquiry - Ontario.
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The Nano: 14 Million New Cars on India’s Streets
Image courtesy of Flickr user B. Balaji
If you drive a car, or even have to take a bus in any sort of major city you know that traffic is a terrible thing. When I went to India I was shocked to see that the streets there are at least three times as packed as the [...]
Dose of Reality: Engagements
To produce that single ounce, miners have to quarry hundreds of tons of rock, which are then doused in a liquid cyanide solution to separate the gold. Payal Sampat, the campaign director for Earthworks, the mining watchdog, told The Independent: “Gold mining is arguably the world’s dirtiest and most polluting industry.”
My boyfriend proposed not too [...]
Dose of Reality: Happy New Year
“The science is beyond dispute… Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response.”
I never thought I’d see the day when the President of the USA would be considered “more green” than the prime minister of Canada. I’m happy to say, that I truly believe Obama is just that. (Although…to be [...]
Adding Sulfur To The Atmosphere’s Diet
It seems as though anyone with any sort of science background is scurrying around trying to solve the problem of global warming. Recently some geoengineers proposed a “solution” that would just make matters worse. It’s an idea that really makes me think that real and professional scientists shouldn’t be left to solving global warming. Their [...]
Eco-Hunk: David Suzuki
David Suzuki is a Canadian hero, one of our top 10 Canadians even. He is best known for his television show The Nature Of Things airing across the world. He is a scientists and avid environmentalist. In 1990 he founded the David Suzuki Foundation which as the mission of finding a balance in the environment [...]
North America’s First Carbon Tax
No more cruising the strip in British Columbia! It has recently become North America’s first jurisdiction to introduce a consumer based carbon tax! B.C Minister of Finance, Carole Taylor, also vowed that every cent will be returned through tax cuts and credits.
It’s a good way to keep people aware and more accountable for their environmental [...]
Living Modestly Is Not Uncomfortable
I hate that living modestly is starting to be equated with disregarding the comforts that we’ve been given… instead of a noble and earth saving way of life.
I have a group of friends who all live together. In a maximum 6 person house (4 “real” bedrooms) there are 13 people. They have no [...]
Eco-Fashion Makes Local Farmers Happy
The organics industry is expected to boom faster than ever in the next few years. And I’m stoked.
It seems like everywhere I look, someone else is going organic. Just the other day I was perusing my favorite store, H&M and came across and entire organic section, that I had somehow missed the other times [...]
Happy Green New Year!
I get more excited about New Years Eve than I do about Christmas or my birthday combined, seriously. So I always throw a party, and my parties always singlehandedly undo every environmental effort I put forth the entire year before. Invitations, garbage, lights, tons of food… etc. So this year, I changed it! The top [...]
Smartest Car; Still Worse Than The Dumbest Bike
The process of buying and making new cars isn’t the solution to this enormous fossil fuel problem we’re having. Hackneyed as it might seem, we need to develop long term sustainable community transportation, AND to rethink the way that we structure our lives around cars.
Buying a smart car is kind of like putting a band [...]
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