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07/15/09

09:01:26 am, by NicS, 255 words

Categories: Our Changing World

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Richmond councillor says Port Metro Vancouver expansion threatens farmland

By Dawn Paley

[Harold] "Steves vowed to fight any destruction of farmland by Port Metro Vancouver until his “dying breath.”
“In 1973, when we brought the ALR in, we were concerned that we were only producing 86 percent of our vegetables and small fruit,” Steves said. “Now, during WWII and after the war, we were producing 100 percent, so a drop down from 100 percent to 86 percent was significant. Today, we’re producing 43 percent. And that’s the problem.”"

Prince Charles Richard Dimbleby Lecture

Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change
By Derrick Jensen

Would any sane person think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday, or that chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons, or that dancing naked around a fire would have helped put in place the Voting Rights Act of 1957 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Then why now, with all the world at stake, do so many people retreat into these entirely personal “solutions”?

Part of the problem is that we’ve been victims of a campaign of systematic misdirection. Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organized political resistance.

Farewell to the Lawn
By Leonard Stern

NaiKun offshore wind farm presents environmental dilemma
By Anne Murray

It's not about the bike

By Dave R.

Greenpeace Activists Occupy Mount Rushmore
By Derek Markham

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