This posting is like one of those weak flashback episodes that were always so disappointing on TV shows, where they just re-used old content with some weak plot to tie it all together.
This posting is to let you know what you might have missed during the year. It’s like a Table of Contents, but way more interesting. Well, a little more interesting.
I’ve ranted about climate change, I’m a stay a home father, and I’m a former biology teacher who owns a cloth diaper store and has a greenhouse. I might be accused of being a tree-hugging new age hippie. Or at least, the arctic equivalent of a tree-hugger, since hugging arctic dwarf scrub willows is just lying on a pile of broken twigs that will take 50 years to grow back.
But I’m in favour of a pipeline.
I think we would all improve the wake we make if we were mindful of the water we use and worked to use it efficiently. What better place to work on your wake than water? So here are my Top Ten Tricks for Saving Water – it saves us money and helps out our municipalities, too!
Most people don’t want to be That Guy: The Breaker of Other Peoples’ Toys. Climate-anxious people think you are breaking theirs.
The problem in the minds of the world out there is that polar bears are polar bears. If we were talking about the Great Northern Dung Beetle, I bet you would let us go about our business. It doesn’t really matter how furry or cute they are. They are animals that are the other top carnivore in this environment, and they are a serious piece of business for us up here.
Once upon a time there was an emerging consensus at the First Ministers level in Canada about the need for a carbon tax. Now it is 2018 and the provinces are flipping over like SUVs in another once-in-a-hundred-years storm.