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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.
Posts by Kian:
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 [...]
Deathy Hollows
Harry Potter books give me a headache. I’ve read all of them and finished Deathly Hollows this morning.
Spoiler: I was extremely disappointed that Harry didn’t die. It would have been too cool.
The only good thing about this particular Harry Potter book was the way in which the publishers/author went out of their way to [...]
What’s the point?
The particular question that I’m proposing to all of you seems to be so simple, but is loaded with consequences, philosophies and ideas. People have examined the data around global warming and have concluded that we’re in a tight spot for the very near future. How do these people continue to rationalize getting into a [...]
IPCC’s last report
If Ralph knows it, you REALLY should know it.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change told us earlier this year that we’re basically all screwed. That the poor are even more screwed. And that we need to do something about it. Today they will be releasing the fourth report, where they will tell us what we [...]
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