Greenspiration News: Here Comes the Sun

[Angela Bischoff]

Greenspiration News

Here's to 2013 ushering in the renewable energy revolution!

“Be truthful, gentle and fearless.” ~ Gandhi
 
“I do not want to talk about what you understand about this world. I want to know what you will do about it. I do not want to know what you hope. I want to know what you will work for. I do not want your sympathy for the needs of humanity. I want your muscle.” ~ Robert Fulghum
 
Cycle and Recycle Calendar – 2002 – 2013 – 2019  This bicycle wall calendar, published cooperatively by 13 NGOs in 3 countries, features 30 remarkable color photos, provocative quotes, illustrations and more. The images convey a bicycle culture without borders. Every donation to Greenspiration will receive a calendar! (min. $12 - includes calendar and postage) Please send cheque or money order to: Greenspiration, c/o #809, 100 Lower Ossington Ave, Toronto, Ontario M6J 1A7.   Multiple orders welcome. Questions? <greenspi at web.ca>.  
Thanks in advance!
-angela

First Nations Solidarity

Idle No More A Mass Movement for Indigenous Sovereignty - Compilation

Idle No More's critique of Harper's proposed 8 Bills that violate treaties and are meant to destroy and assimilate First Nations communities. 

Environment

Solar Power Revolution - Here Comes the Sun Wow - fantastic doc about the solar power revolution enabled by the Feed In Tariffs in Germany. We have a similar FIT program in Ontario but it is being challenged primarily by rural landowners fuelled by Conservative leader Tim Hudak.

An Environmental History of Canada  Traces how Canada’s colonial and national development contributed to modern environmental problems such as urban sprawl, the collapse of fisheries, and climate change
 
Norway to double carbon tax on oil industry Extra funding for climate change mitigation and forestry programmes also part of oil-rich nation's radical programme

Carbon Taxes Make Ireland Even Greener Environmentally and economically, the new taxes have delivered results. Long one of Europe’s highest per-capita producers of greenhouse gases, with levels nearing those of the United States, Ireland has seen its emissions drop more than 15 percent since 2008.

China Is Building A Huge Eco-City Where No One Will Need To Drive Half the road space will be reserved for non-motorized traffic, and electric shuttles will get people where they cannot or do not want to walk. All homes will be within a two-minute walk of a public park.

Toward a More Comprehensive Understanding of Traffic Congestion  Roadways are expanded in order to accommodate anticipated automobile traffic, which in turn, induces additional vehicle use. Build it and they will come.

How Bicycling Creates Economic Impact: A Tale of Two Cities Bike lanes mean more spending in local neighbourhoods. Bikes are good for business!

Big Pharma

Taking Prozac (or other SSRI antidepressant)? Don’t drive: Pills raise risk of you having an accident by 70%
 
Poor Kids Getting Prescribed ADHD Meds They Don't Need, Against Their Will  "We've decided as a society that it's too expensive to modify the kid's environment. So we have to modify the kid."

Adult antidepressants suspected in suicides of Canadian kids  

Women, gender and medical screening A "primer" on medical screening specific to women 

Is routine breast cancer screening doing more harm than good?  

Great new website about prescription drugs side effects  

The true source or random and mass shootings and violence 11 min. video

RIP Thomas Szasz "If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia." 

Who Cares in Sweden? A documentary trilogy about anti-depressant drugs 

Misc.

Rethinking menstruation This podcast deconstructs some of the patriarchal beliefs about women’s cycles. This show highlights cultural (mis)understandings, personal stories, health, and alternative options.

Demilitarize Canada “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, and the hopes of its children.” - Dwight Eisenhower, former U.S. General and President, 1953, A Chance for Peace

Canada’s Spy Groups Divulge Secret Intelligence to Energy Companies Documents raise fears that info on environmentalists, Indigenous groups and more shared with industry at biannual, secret-level, briefings.
 
In Quebec It's Official: Mass Movement Leads to Victory for Students Naomi Klein: 'This is why radical movements are mercilessly mocked. They can win.

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