An invitation for Earth Day

It occurred to me the other day that the next April 22 will be the fortieth anniversary of Earth Day.  Back in 1970, I was in Grade 10 when the first Earth Day took place.  I remember writing flyers for a day to door information canvas.   The issues of the day were the threat of eutrophication from phosphates in detergent, DDT and acid rain.

Across North America, the first Earth Day was mostly observed through “teach-ins.”  It was the brain child of Senator Gaylord Nelson and Denis Hayes.  The goal was awareness raising and education.  

Since that time, those threats have receded.  DDT has been banned.  Phosphates in detergents have been banned.  And the seven eastern provinces committed to reducing sulphur dioxide by 50% and the US met Canada’s standard and also committed to a 50% cut leading largely to removing the spectre of acidification of our lakes and rivers.

And from small beginnings Earth Day has emerged as an annual event.  Sometimes it has been lavish, with gala media star-studded concerts. Vanity Fair started doing Green themed magazines. Celebrity sizzle was added to the grassroots nature of Earth Day.

Here we are forty years after the first Earth Day. We can celebrate many victories, but the truth is, we have never faced such peril.  The climate crisis outweighs any other previous environmental threat.  In fact, it is such a large menace that the adjective “environmental” hardly applies.  It is a threat to our survival as a civilization.  Yet, governments fudge and delay.  The Harper government does not even grasp the science and certain elements of media proclaim there is no solid science.

We need to get back to the basics of the first Earth Day.  As the deadlines for Greenhouse Gas reduction loom, the date by which we should be 80-90% below 1990 levels is 2050.  Forty years from now.  So we are at an interesting time point.  We are exactly mid-way between the first Earth Day and the year by which we should essentially be a post-carbon society.

I hope that Greens across the country will organize or join in with Earth Day events organized as Teach-ins to educate about climate, green technologies, science, “how to talk to a climate denier” and other topics leading to a re-building of momentum toward the COP16 negotiations in Mexico.  

We have forty years of success to celebrate while we lay the groundwork so that our children can celebrate forty more years of success in 2050.

An invitation for Earth Day

Just a HAPPY BLOG

Good Day Greens: Today is gonna be short and Sweet. I hope all have a great day, It’s Sunny here and just a Beautiful day. I’m off to watch Some twenty yr olds play Snowball(baseball with snow) tee hee hee! This should be alot of fun. Anyway It’s a good day to spend time with Friends n Family.  Have a GREAT DAY!!!!!! Warmest Regards….Sherry-Lynn

Just a HAPPY BLOG

Random Breath Testing Violates Charter Rights

The federal Justice Department is proposing that Random Breath Testing (RBT) be conducted without reasonable cause and this constitutes unreasonable search – a violation of the Charter of Rights.

Their rationale is that since Australia, New Zealand, and the European states violate their citizen’s right to privacy by conducting RBT, we should also do so in Canada!

The report suggests that relying on the judgement of police is a weakness in the current system of detecting drunk drivers.  However, if we cannot rely on the good judgement of police today, will we abandon jury trials tomorrow because we cannot rely on the good judgement of jurors?  What about the reliance on the good judgement of judges? 

In fact our entire legal system rests on good judgement of authorities plus Charter Rights – and that is a good thing.

Furthermore, their proposal does not meet the burden of proof that there is an overriding reason to violate our Charter right.  The annex of the report fails to present evidence that suggests that

(a) a system of random checks is more effective than a combination of other measures such as a lower threshold for blood alcohol level and more frequent RIDE checkpoints.

(b) random breath tests will be a deterrent to drunk drivers.  Higher fines for a first offence and stiffer penalties for subsequent offences would be more likely to provide an effective deterrent.  To quote an old saying, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”.

A greater concern is the current trend in the Canadian Government to violate our right to protection from unreasonable search in the name of public safety.  First the airports, now our cars, what is next – our homes?

The “logic” that the innocent have nothing to fear from such searches rests on the presumption that there is never a miscarriage of justice by the authorities.  If we remove Charter protection, then we have only the good judgement of the authorities to rely on.  History tells us that by itself this is not enough. 

Just ask Maher Arar.

 

Random Breath Testing Violates Charter Rights

CONVENTION of the RIGHTS of the CHILD FYI

Good Morning Greens; I’m blogging today on  THE CONVENTION of the RIGHTS of the CHILD! This is a FYI blog. First this CONVENTION was adopted by the Canadian Government on November 20, 1959. I started my research on this, 3 years ago and I haven’t stopped since then. Then it was Adopted again by the General Assembly of the UNITED NATIONS on November 20, 1989. Since then there has been several Advocate groups who have tried to get our Government to step up and start realizing how important this 28 page booklet Named CONVENTION of the RIGHTS of the CHILD is and how Canadain Families need this Most IMPORTANT INFORMATION for there CHILDREN n there CHILDREN and so on!!!!!!! If there are people out there that would like to know more or need Information on this please contact me on here please. I look forward to the comments about this! With my Warmest Regards….Sherry-Lynn….PS  I hope all have a GREAT DAY….Love, Peace n GREEN

 

CONVENTION of the RIGHTS of the CHILD FYI

A good Way to End the Week

Good Day Greens: This week has been a very Good week for new insights and views. I LOVE being GREEN and Learning myself exactly what that means and learning each day to bring green into my life and all that intales, my home, my Relationships, even how I make choices and how I talk. I look forward to Membership growth and relationship to get STRONGER between Greens and us Canadians!!!!!! I hope all have a great weekend. Sunshine here in Wildrose Country. I always feel that spring just gets me hopping, lol,.   Have a great one!!!!!!    WARMEST REGUARDS:   Sherry-Lynn

A good Way to End the Week

My posts just disappear and I want to know why

“Its too bad may broke her promise in the TV debates”

This shows on the right hand side as a post….yet no such post comes up when you try to see it

 

Why is this?

 

Who decides these things?

To all those I signed up please use the  following site where all posts will be put first!  from now on and if they are gone here you can still read them there

http://pottalk.ning.com/

I also ask all of you to get ready to stand up and remove the censorship we find here by electing our own as council and to make sure we are ready to over take the vote to get a leadership contest as sent out to all of you

 

We have had enough and now formally working to effect things ourselves

I ask that you all also continue the financial policy we struck months ago and continue holding it yourselves

If any one else has this problem here please advise me as well so we can add it to the files at pottalk and the main site which I wont add here…ask your group leaders

To all those unaware you can also see video of the recent police visit my wife myself and others experienced feb 5 2010  caused by a malicious false complaint ( I cant  put the name here as this thread will also disappear but see it there)

Its bizarre and so nice to have to hide like this at the so called free and open party…wow

But if the police abuse investigations are successful the media will come out with it themselves and help us

If we want our own freedom we obviously need to do it our selves and we are

And with  so many attempts to water down our cannabis policy here and with all these games I have explained else where  please yes spread this info around and give everyone the links to our other sites

To those of you just regular greens I am and have been abused so many times I have given up and strickly working at obtaining real leadership in this party and working legally to do so

Yes it is unfortunate but completely needed as we do not take abuse lying down any more

Please try to understand our motives and realize we have done a lot for the party and will again after our goals are reached…but never before

Any that have questions can ask here although any brought by me please do so the regular way as I have already been told they will ban me for a year next time….can you imagine ? wow

If that happens please move to the main plan as discussed and continue to leave here

I hope this is not just deleted and myself banned but you know what to do if it happens

Cheers

 

 

 

 

My posts just disappear and I want to know why

Reading ‘The Wrong Kind of Green’

The article is here: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100322/hari

Wow… this shook me up. I heard the author interviewed on democracynow.org and am deeply disturbed by the implications. Beyond the scandalous accustions of the mainstream US enviromental organizations, its shocking how the worthwhile  responses to the looming climate changes we support as Greens are being so effectively neutralized. The science does not enter the mainstream political  or mass media discourse. I look out my window at the steady stream of cars, read about the expansion of the tarsand mining and the steady increase in electical demand. Considering the inertia our industrial society has, I wonder if the necessary 40% reduction in carbon emissions needed to keep atmospheric levels at 350 ppm is even a remote possibility.

Most of the forecasting available is about the probable changes to the climate in the high artic and the tropics. Very worrying changes yes, but what about what will happen here in the temperate parts of North America? Will the forests of the west coast dry out and burn? Will the prairies change? Will the east coast suffer more violent storms? What can we expect and what can we do to prepare for it? These are worthwhile questions for a national polital party an it seems we had better start talking about it.

 

 

Reading ‘The Wrong Kind of Green’

Good Morning Greens

Good Morning Greens: First I would Like to Congradulate the Greens on the 2 percent we have on the Polls. Last time I looked at the polls we weren’t even mentioned on the News, So things are looking up. I would though like to ask what does that 2 percent mean. Is it Good or Terrible bad?  Well with how I feel About our Party is We need to get to the top n I believe We can Do it.  If Wildrose Alliance can do it  I believe Greens are far more intune with we the People of Canada  to Get THINGS DONE!!!!!!!!!!! LETS GO GREENS, LETS GO!!!!!!!! My heart n Mind Are totally in it to see Greens Rise to the TOP!!!!!!!! Sherry-Lynn

Good Morning Greens

Ottawa’s Terry Fox Road Environmental Study Is Seriously Flawed

I reviewed in depth the City of Ottawa’s environmental study and found some serious problems with it. 

1. There is no analysis, consideration, nor plan to protect endangered species. 

2. Although the environmental report recognizes that the area being threatened is ecologically significant at a provincial level, less than 25% of the report addresses the natural environment. 

3. In the ecological section, the report notes the presence of endangered plant and animal species in the area under study and then proceeds to ignore that fact for the balance of the report. 

4. Even though ecological impact was clearly established as being the most important criteria for the environmental study, the report selected the alternative that it rated to be the absolute worst for the natural environment! 

5. The memo of recommendation to the Transportation Committee failed to discuss the obvious concerns that the recommended alternative did not align with the criteria set by the Transportation Committee and that further ecological study was warranted prior to finalizing the recommendation. 

6. The traffic volume forecast is over 1000 vehicles an hour during peak periods but does not provide a corresponding forecast of animal deaths caused by this volume. 

7. The recommended traffic volume mitigation strategy consists of posting animal crossing signs to alert drivers.  This is outright ecological irresponsibility. 

8. The alignment study provides for a single passageway but does not provide an analysis of how effective that would be considering that slow moving turtles are unlikely to hike down to the passageway just to cross the road. 

9. The magnitude of ecological impact is not assessed anywhere in the report.

The full review can be found at my personal blog site at http://renaud.ca/wordpress/?p=238

Paul Renaud

Ottawa’s Terry Fox Road Environmental Study Is Seriously Flawed

EDA Meeting

It was a very nice meeting yesterday at Oakville Room in Town Hall. We have decided to form a special team for Oakville area and we have invited people to join the lead roles.

EDA Meeting

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