Population pressure and environmental concerns are pushing cities around the world to embrace the concept of green roofs. As climate change distorts natural systems, the environmental, economic and a...
It seems to me that all this talk about the potential impact of climate change on Canadian food production is missing the point. Has food production ever won us Olympic gold over the Americans? Has f...
As a hockey referee, I would often find myself entertaining unsolicited advice from coaches. “You are an idiot,” they would helpfully suggest. This tended to result in more penalties for the team in ...
My Philippines experience continues to struggle, push back and otherwise resist my efforts to bundle it up into a tidy little blog. There are strings of environmental non-sequiturs going everywhere, ...
It’s not every day that one has the opportunity to present an elaborate hippopotamus metaphor at an international conference, and so I felt it would be remiss (not to mention intellectually irrespons...
“My friend, where are you going?”The question is a fair and reasonable one, since I am a young, white man towering, somewhat confusedly, over a sea of Filipinos.However, months of experience have tau...
I went to Bangkok, saw oddles of temples, and didnt take any pictures. This is partly because to do so would expose my laughable photography skills, and partly because I think that the photograph is ...
When my friends are asked to describe me, they invariably say that I am, “the kind of guy who would never speak ill of the Prince of Monaco”. Im very proud of this reputation, which is why I now find...
I know more than I ever wanted to about septage. Since what I wanted to know was more or less “nothing” I have been acutely aware of this insipid, creeping competence for the past several weeks. But ...
Every couple of days, I have a moment that causes me to ask myself “is this really my life?” The answer is typically ‘yes’, but I generally repose the question, just to be sure: so I really am singin...
The water from the broken air conditioner drips down onto my lap, making it look for all the world as if Ive peed my pants. As recently as perhaps even two years ago, I might have felt like it: an un...
Fear rules. It ruled when thousands of Americans lost their lives driving after 9/11, during a time in which zero were killed in/by airplanes. It ruled recently when Angela Merkel – apparently confus...
There seems to be an emerging public consensus that the recent global rash of extreme climatic events can be more or less directly attributed to climate change. The theory is this: climate change inc...
Jumping off a cliff. Stepping on a kitten. Cheering for the Toronto Maple Leafs. These are all things I don’t need to experience to know that they are galactically unfortunate ideas. But everything e...
It doesn’t take more than 5 seconds on a jeepney to imagine the kind of environmental improvement that could be made through efficiency gains in the Philippines. The switch to gas from coal, for exam...
Ive been writing a work plan for my next six months at the City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO). It includes the following primary projects: 1. Implement a solid waste management sys...
Like a 3D painting, San Fernando shows more of its depth everytime I look at it. I was shocked when Fridays boxing event featured two designated “gay boxing” cards. Dressed in full drag, the combatan...
Ive had the tremendous fortune of arriving in San Fernando during the annual city fiesta – a two-week long party and all-around good time. Friday was boxing night. I hadnt really gone into the city, ...
The usual binary language choice I face while travelling is the following: A) Learn the local language. Or, B) Fail to learn the local language, thus resigning myself to weeks or monthly of bumbling ...
With so many things to feel guilty about as a Westerner in a developing country, I’ve been casting about for things I can feel good about. My chief candidate at the moment: mangoes. I love mangoes, b...
In this world we live in, many people have many problems. There are children starving in Africa. Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender, Dan Ellis, continues to lose sleep over his measly 3 million dollar co...
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