Living Green Barrie

Thoughts on Curbing Carbon Emissions               After being pressed hard by public opinion, the Harper government has decided to do something about climate change. Instead of a simple, broad and easy to understand attack on the problem, they have focused

Monsanto Monopoly over food ‘All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing’ Monsanto doesn’t like to share the food market, and our governments continue to allow this company to have a large monopoly

Peak Oil  Petroleum derivatives have proven to be superb fuels for transportation and mobile power (farming, mining, forestry, etc). There can be no doubt that these fuels will become scarce and costly – too costly to burn casually, as we

Is it really BP’s fault?  At first glance this seems a stupid question.  But how many of us stop to think about where our hydrocarbons come from when we fill up our cars. In fact, I would bet that the

Why is that over 80% of Canadians are against GMO food, and want labelling while our elected representatives simple deny us?  The government seems to be falling prey to huge lobbies large grocery chains, and Monsanto.  Last night I was