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Flick Fest is coming to Estevan, Saskatchewan! Get ready to rock on May 30, 2008 to the tunes of City and Colour featuring Sleepercar and Black Lungs. Check out the details!

FLICK OFF MANIFESTO

"We have at most ten years—not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions.” Jim Hansen, NASA.

FLICK OFF is a movement to fight climate change by getting Canadians to use less energy. We need you! Time is short to prevent a climate crisis, but it hasn’t run out—so join the FLICK OFF movement. How? Click here!

Published Wed, 2007-01-17 02:14 read more | 19 comments

Congratulations Earth Hour!

Cities all over the world came together on Saturday night to make sure their voices were heard. Together we flicked off our lights in one of the largest global acts of environmental participation, to date!

It’s clear. People believe in the cause. We believe in environmental reform. We believe we can make a difference, if we all act together.

Published Mon, 2008-03-31 12:23 read more | andreahirsch's blog | 2 comments

Coal mining takes on a new look.

Imagine a mountaintop, just blown to smithereens, hitting homes, businesses and mountain people below.
 
What could possibly justify all of the destruction? Why would anyone knowingly pollute a land that has nourished families for generations?
 
The answer is coal.  And the newest, dirtiest way to get it: mountain top mining.
 

Published Mon, 2008-03-17 11:13 read more | andreahirsch's blog | 2 comments

Hydrogen fuel cells get a bad review

…from Toyota and GM.  According to both Bob Lutz, GM's vice chairman, and Toyota's president, Katsuaki Watanabe, the technology is expensive and we just don’t have the means to distribute hydrogen in mass quantities.
 
Instead both companies believe we need to focus on lithium-ion batteries, which have the potential to make hydrogen fuel cells obsolete.
 
The bottom line? Finally enough thought and research is being put into these issues. The right solution may just be around the next corner.
 

Published Tue, 2008-03-11 15:55 read more | andreahirsch's blog | login or register to post comments