From the category archives:
Even the Wall Street Journal was fooled, (or did they create it?)
An apparent press release from the Canadian Minister for the Environment Jim Prentice was posted at http://enviro-canada.ca/agenda2020 see pdf here.
“Today the G77 has again made their voice very clear,” said Jim Prentice, Canada’s Minister for the Environment. “This policy is our answer. Long in [...]
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The native population of British Columbia, collectively known today as the First Nations battled many of the same challenges we face today as communities in this great wilderness. The mountains, rivers, snow and spring freshet all made travel and transportation a challenge, and in many communities, still do. It is not uncommon to hear of commuities cut off by rock slides, avalanches, ice jams or flood waters in the late winter, early spring months. We don’t often think about what life was like before roads and cars, and we especially can’t imagine life without horses, carts and farm animals. But life as a native before the arrival of white man was not as simplistic as many of us would believe.
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Winona LaDuke is a notable author and native american from Minasotta.
Democracy is not a spectator sport.
Who is it that is going to fix things?
We look around our community and despite all of our shortcomings – it is community that holds the key to change. We need to learn how to be good neighbours to the [...]
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I try my hardest not to be all doom and gloom here at UrbanWorkbench, but someone tell me who is going to lend the US Federal Government a Trillion dollars a year?
Analysts predict that the federal deficit will hit a new record of at least $1 trillion this year, which would be not only be [...]
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As of March 4th 2009, Igor Panarin has revised his prediction – read more in this post – Revising the Russian Prediction
It is interesting to see how others outside of the western decadence view the situation in the USA, take for instance this Russian Professor…
For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the [...]
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Remembrance Day 2008. Today is the 90th anniversary of Armistice Day in 1918, the end of the !st World War. I was in the Australian Army for four and a half years – training to serve my country, fortunately, I never went to war, many of those I trained with ended up in Iraq and [...]
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UrbanWorkbench tackles many topics related to Civil Engineering, Urban Planning and Sustainability, and as part of Blog Action Day 2008, I’d like to take a step away from the construction and development side of things, and focus on the issues of poverty and the collision of climate change and peak oil. This is just a [...]
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