climate, photos, miscellany
“History is a bath of blood,” wrote William James, whose 1906 antiwar essay is arguably the best ever written on the subject. “Modern war is so expensive,” he continued, “that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of [...]
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One element of developing Toronto350.org has been learning how to do complex cooperative work using a devoted group of volunteers. This afternoon, we are having a ‘bibliography party’ for our University of Toronto divestment brief. We will be taking all the sources people have collected and putting them into biblatex format. It will then be [...]
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Having been knocked over a few more times during the Winter Ball, my LumoPro LP120 flash is now definitively dead. I very much need two flashes to do the kind of event photography I have been doing in recent years. I therefore need to decide how to replace it. One option is to get a [...]
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238 items in all, this is a draft list of texts for my forthcoming comprehensive examination in Canadian politics. I can’t help noticing that it was typeset in LaTeX.
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Via: coastalfirstnations.ca
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If you want to get approval for a huge project with many risks and serious associated problems, one strategy is to get decision-makers to split up the question into tiny pieces. Forbid the people on one team from considering the issues another team is looking at. That way, you can prevent the consideration of interactions [...]
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Mark Jaccard in The Walrus: “The Harper government supports accelerating the extraction of fossil fuels from our soil, which will send more carbon pollution into the atmosphere. Meanwhile, that same government brazenly assures Canadians that it will keep its 2020 and 2050 emission reduction promises. But I know these assurances are worthless, for the very [...]
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From an excellent Rolling Stone article by Bill McKibben: We even had some early victories. Three colleges – Unity in Maine, Hampshire in Massachusetts and Sterling College in Vermont – purged their portfolios of fossil fuel stocks. Three days before Christmas, Seattle mayor Mike McGinn announced city funds would no longer be invested in fossil [...]
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This morning I was on “The Green Majority” on CUIT (89.5 FM in Toronto). I was talking about Toronto 350.org and our two major ongoing campaigns: to oppose the reversal of the Enbridge Line 9 pipeline to carry oil sands bitumen and to encourage the University of Toronto to divest from fossil fuel companies.
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