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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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Score one for PCs
Health Hazards in Electronics:
· Some brominated flame retardants, used in circuit boards and plastic casings, do not break down easily and build up in the environment. Long-term exposure can lead to impaired learning and memory functions. They can also interfere with thyroid and oestrogen hormone systems and exposure in the womb has been linked [...]
Solar to power the world
The amount of energy hitting the earth from the sun every minute is great than the amount of energy the would burns up in fossil fuels in one year.That’s a whole lot of energy just sitting around waiting to be used while we continue to use oil and crap that is ruining our earth…
Solar energy [...]
IPCC Report
Well, IPCC’s (intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) 2nd report of four came out Friday (thats a pdf link…) It is by far the most comprehensive and heavily reviewed word on climate change. They don’t conduct experiments or get funded by companies… It is a collaborative effort put together in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization [...]
Where will your city be?
From Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth; what Manhattan would look like…
Despite skepticism and all the video “proof” and GW cover ups, I’m still an avid believer in the fact that global warming is going to screw us all over in a short period of time. It’s finally hitting the news now that major cities [...]
The Climate Cover-Up
This bit of news is getting up slightly later than I’d like to be getting it up - but I know a few people who will want to read this who may not have read it else where and it is no less important today than it was 3 days ago. News was released Tuesday [...]
Vegan and veggie products
As a newly proclaimed vegan I found this site extremely awesome and helpful. I’ve been a vegetarian for about 8 years but I never wanted to get into the vegan thing because of milk and cheese. But 3 weeks ago I decided to go for it! Now it’s great to have that site as a [...]
To condemn the condom, or not…
Durex 2003 Sex Survey Highlights
People have sex an average of 127 times a year.
Three quarters of those polled are happy with their sex lives.
Eastern Europeans (Hungarians, Bulgarians, and Russians) are the most sexually active 45% of those taking the survey reported having a one night stand.
Those in Thailand, China, and Vietnam were [...]
Is it humor?
No, no. I’m not going to start questioning Starre’s seriousness about global warming - I think the picture is very cute. However, this video by Sarah Silverman is supposed to be humor about global warming. Maybe it’s because I don’t like Sarah Silverman, but I just don’t find the whole “global warming will be great [...]
The real cost of Christmas
What does christmas really cost us? I ask my family not to buy me Christmas gifts. In the beginning it was to make a stance against Christmas saying “I’m not Christian, so it’s not my holiday and these traditions are silly.” But as I grow older and care less and less about putting effort into [...]
Lets Be Clear
Canada has been dealing with some rough water issues lately, and the David Suzuki Foundation is taking note of it. Since late last week residence of Vancouver have been facing mudslides over taking their resevoirs where the city gets their water. The extremely high level of turbidity has caused an advisory for Vancouver residents to [...]
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