Politics and its Discontents

It is to state the obvious that our love of convenience, our addiction to a throwaway lifestyle, is very destructive, not only to us and o...

That is my assessment of our faux Environment Minister, Catherine McKenna, in her latest political statement in answer to the question of...

"Where there's a will, there's a way," my mother always said. The question is,"Does that will exist?" These tw...

There are many days when I think that words no longer fork any lightning, and this blog would be more useful if I simply aggregated, without...

I wonder what is stopping the wider propagation of this technology:

Fifty years for a Styrofoam cup to break down. Four-hundred-and-fifty years for a water bottle. Those are but two disturbing facts you will ...

Our Prime Minister, always keen to appear as a progressive on the international stage, is decidedly less so at home, as recent events are d...

A recent post outlined the terrible toll plastic pollution is exacting on the world's oceans and wildlife. We pay a very high price f...

The species: the human race. The charge: depraved indifference. Watch the following to see for yourself whether conviction is a forgone co...

One of the reasons that a new year excites people, I suppose, is that it offers a psychological opportunity to start anew. Our personal worl...

For plastics, that is. For the rest of us, not so much. Despite the terrible environmental problems posed by plastic pollution, The Gu...

Although I have written before about the terrible problem of plastic pollution that is strangling the world in general, and our oceans and ...

I suspect that most people in the West realize to some extent the self-indulgence of drinking bottled water, not to mention the many other l...

For me, the plastic water bottle is an apt symbol for the mentality that encapsulates the western world today: the passion for convenience...

Although brief, this video shows the terrible cost of our 'disposable' lifestyles: