Greenspiration News: Jack's bike tribute

[Angela Bischoff]

Greenspiration News

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Jack Layton – RIP. On Aug. 22 we lost a shining star. But the world is better for his contributions…Read his letter dated Aug. 20, 2011  "My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world." 

Photo bike tribute 
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Massive protest at White House against Alberta tar sands pipeline
Campaigners say the two-week protest will be the biggest green civil disobedience in a generation

Stop the Pipeline! Sit-in at the White House
From August 20th – September 3rd we’re planning a peaceful protest in Washington DC to defuse the largest carbon bomb in North America. Join us!

Over 160 Arrested in Ongoing Civil Disobedience Against Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline 

Tar Sands and the Carbon Numbers New York Times Editorial against the Keystone XL pipeline to transport Alberta tarsands to the US
 
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Stop Coddling the Super-Rich

By Warren Buffet
While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks. My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice.

 
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In Auto Test in Europe, Meter Ticks Off Miles, and Fee to Driver
Supporters of the meters contend that the charges are more equitable than current taxes like automobile purchase and registration fees, because they derive from actual use rather than mere ownership. If imposed, they could supplant gas and vehicle taxes as well as tolls. Governments could program  computers to require consistent gas guzzlers to pay higher rates, for example. 

Distance charging also provides a means of replacing declining revenues from gasoline taxes as more people drive highly efficient, hybrid or electric cars, helping governments that have traditionally depended on gas taxes for road upkeep. 

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Bicycling infrastructure pays dividends 
By David Suzuki

Most arguments against bike lanes are absurd.... As oil becomes scarce and pollution and climate change increase, people are finally realizing that transporting a 90-kilogram person in two tonnes of metal just isn’t sustainable, especially in urban areas.

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The Next Generation Takes on Climate Change

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Park(ing) Day: September 16, 2011

PARK(ing) Day is an annual, worldwide event that invites citizens everywhere to transform metered parking spots into temporary parks for the public good.


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Define Better - song and music video

An eye-opening rap song about the pharma drugging of our children with psychiatric medications.


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Aggression during G20 rally ‘perpetrated by police,’ judge rules

A Toronto judge has ruled that “adrenalized” police officers acted as aggressors at a peaceful political rally that led to dozens of arrests during last year’s G20 summit. “The only organized or collective physical aggression at that location that evening was perpetrated by police each time they advanced on demonstrators,” Justice Melvyn Green ruled on Thursday.

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Effectively silencing Canada’s whistleblowers
Last week an adjudicator at the Public Service Labour Relations Board handed down rulings related to three Health Canada scientists that confirm what many Canadians — and international observers — had already concluded: that Canada is not a safe place for honest employees, especially if they work for the federal government.

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From Jesus’ socialism to capitalistic Christianity
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