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Defeated by Mother Nature 6

Mother Nature herself has embarrassingly defeated me. She has employed all of her high powers to conquer me, and I have submissively and without dignity conceded to her higher will. 2 days ago, the temperature was about 14 degrees Celsius. For all you old school chumps or Americans, that’s approximately 58 degrees Fahrenheit. Considerably warm ...

Our degrading planet 3

The planet Earth is rapidly degrading, and according to a 2,500 page report from the United Nations approximately 60 percent of the ecosystem services that support life on Earth – such as fresh water, capture fisheries, air and water regulation, and the regulation of regional climate, natural hazards and pests – are being degraded or ...

Save Canada’s ancient Boreal Forest 2

One of Greenpeace’s current major campaigns is to stop the destruction of Canada’s Boreal forest. Many tissue products like toilet paper, facial tissue, paper towels and napkins are produced from Boreal trees. Although this campaign is happening in Canada, I think it’s a global issue that should receive attention from not just inside Canada, but ...

Hand dryer hypocracy

I would consider myself rather conscious about the environment. I always promote the installation of automatic hand dryers as opposed to towel dispensers. But it seems that I’m also a hypocrite, because today there was an automatic hand dryer and a towel dispenser next to each other, and I chose the towel dispenser. It just ...