<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6" color="#00940d">Greenspiration News</font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">So this is what we truly believe. This is what reinforces our spiritualities: that no being is greater than the next, that we are part and parcel, we are equal, and that each one of us has a responsibility to the balance of the system.</font><br><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">- Albert Marshall, Mi'kmaq Elder, from an interview in Taking Charge of the Bras d'Or: Ecological Politics in the 'Land of Fog'</font><br></i><br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5"><b>Federal Budget</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#da6e2a"><a href="http://bit.ly/IhVMK1">Feds set Canada back 50 years on environment regulations</a> </font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://www.greenparty.ca/blogs/7/2012-04-30/how-conservatives-stole-environmental-protection-broad-daylight"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#a8009c">How the Conservatives stole environmental protection in broad daylight </font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">by Elizabeth May</font><br><br><a href="http://bit.ly/J58i4e"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00629b" size="5">Tories accused of being ‘one of most anti-environmental governments in the world’</font></a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br></font></div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/Hn6Wym"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" color="#009d30" size="5">A federal budget that screws the planet for short-term profits<br></font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#aa0012"><a href="http://www.waterkeeper.ca/2012/04/24/was-this-canadas-last-earth-day/">Was this Canada’s last Earth Day?</a> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Three key safeguards that ensure your right to safely swim, drink, or fish Canadian waters is protected are all being dismantled by the Harper gov’t</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://www.acp-cpa.ca/en/PeaceandProsperity.html"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8e009c" size="5">The Canadian Peace Alliance is calling for Peace and Prosperity – NOT War and Austerity <br></font></a><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00649b" size="5"><a href="http://www.pembina.org/blog/616">Budget 2012: Canada won’t spare a penny for clean energy</a> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Pembina Institute's response</font></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br><a href="http://bit.ly/Iak7Fa"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#009c46" size="5">Federal budget 2012: Health Canada cuts funding to women’s health research groups</font></a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#d88200" size="5"><a href="http://electoralalliance.ca/">How to Get a Majority Government out of 60% of the Popular Vote</a> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">We are at an impasse in federal politics: a majority Conservative government, rejected by 60.4% of Canadian voters, is pushing through its far-right agenda, measures it could not impose during its two previous minority governments. The proposal set out here for an electoral alliance is supported by a diverse group of people (NDP, Liberal, Green and unaligned).</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#db00ce"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyuWw9Pleag">Prof. Anthony Hall on Cheating in the Canadian Election of 2011</a> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4">5 min. video<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br></font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://bit.ly/Jsukte"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#009b17">Jet costs an inside joke - Harperites fib about F-35 costs while imposing "austerity" budget.</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"> By Linda McQuaig</font><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0GS_X9hYII"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#a70042" size="5">Adolph Harper loses it</font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">– 4 min. video. Prime Minister Adolph Harper is incensed that the Canadian people have the nerve to challenge his cutting $44 million in cultural initiatives, and move towards an American cultural model.</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5"><b>Climate Change</b></font></div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/Iak7Fa"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br></font></a><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://www.ecosanity.org/blogsanity"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#74009a" size="5">Climate Compilations by EcoSanity </font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">– videos, blogs, and more – it’s all here</font><br><br><a href="http://onforb.es/IsdQob"></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><a href="http://onforb.es/IsdQob"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#007799">Eating Less Meat Is World's Best Chance For Timely Climate Change</font></a></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"> The entire goal of today’s international climate objectives can be achieved by replacing just one-fourth of today’s least eco-friendly food products with better alternatives</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#009b00"><a href="http://bit.ly/ImnNhK">A Plea for Rio+20: Don’t Commodify Nature</a><br></font><br></font></div><a href="http://bit.ly/JGkd2O"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#009b00">Earth Day march fills Montreal streets - Quarter Million</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://bit.ly/yx88sk"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#d28c00" size="5">The True Cost of Tar Sands What does environmental devastation actually look like?</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#9c009a" style="font-size: x-large; "> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Photographer Garth Lenz shares shocking photos of the Alberta Tar Sands mining project -- and the beautiful (and vital) ecosystems under threat. – 17 min. slide show and presentation</font><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br></font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5"><b>Transportation</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br></font></div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/HePI29"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" color="#a60081" size="5">One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br></font></div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/zwVjgh"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" color="#004a99" size="5">Why Bother With 30 Kph Zones?</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://www.otesha.ca/"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#009909">Otesha Project Bike Tours: Dig into Food Issues from the Seat of your Bicycle! </font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Grab your bike, your rubber boots, and your desire to understand food security and sustainable food systems on a deeper level. The Otesha Project is seeking volunteers for spring, summer and fall cycling & outreach tours. </font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://www.bcsea.org/past-webinars"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#ca6a0a">Transportation without Oil: 23 Steps to a Sustainable Energy Future </font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">by Guy Dauncey</font><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5"><b>Big Pharma</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#d000ac" size="5"><a href="http://bit.ly/IVL5yB">How Psychiatric Drugs Made America Mad</a> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Many casually prescribed drugs are fully capable of disabling – often permanently – bodies, brains and spirits.</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://bit.ly/H9HMoB"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2b00bf" size="5">Legal Drug-Pushing: How Disease Mongers Keep Us All Doped Up</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"> By manipulating our fear of suffering and death, big pharmaceutical companies are able to keep us coming back for expensive medications.</font></font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"> <br></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://bit.ly/IFrLpy"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#009300" size="5">David Healy: Bad Medicine</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4" color="#000500">12 min. video interview</font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/episode/age-of-anxiety.html"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#c57200" size="5">Age of Anxiety - CBC Doc Zone</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"> - 45 min. documentary</font><br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://www.madinamerica.com/"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#c900bc" size="5">Mad in America - Science, Psychiatry and Community</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"> - great news and blogs </font><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5"><b>Miscellaneous</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#c85814"><a href="http://bit.ly/LAslr7">Eco House for sale in Craik Saskatchewan</a></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"> Watch the video about its development</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#900094"><a href="http://bit.ly/GRvGAE">7 Ways Citizens Are Using Humor and Creativity to Protest Injustice</a> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#020003">While not a new concept, creative activism does seem to be having a </font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">"moment" right now as activists look for ways to draw attention to the recent attacks on our rights.</font><br></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><br>------<br><br><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<br>Eulogies and Condolences for Tooker<br>and Stories of ecology and activism<br><a href="http://www.greenspiration.org">http://www.greenspiration.org</a><br><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<br>Join my email list by emailing Angela at:<br>greenspiration@web.ca<br>Write "subscribe" in the subject line<br>and tell me what city/country you live in<br><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<br><br><br></font></div><br></body></html>