Category Archives: Environment

Oh No Canada

December 13, 2011 – 6:46 am

Like most New England hockey fans the national anthem of Canada has been screwed into our aural memory. Some of us even know the lyrics of the English version. Few can sing the French version and no one in my immediate family has heard the Inuit rendition. “O Canada! Our home and native land!” The […]

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The Unglitter of Gold

December 13, 2011 – 5:55 am

Last week Peru’s president suspended civil rights in a northern Andean region after a series of protests had shut down the development of a new gold mine. The locals had resisted the government’s attempts to aid Newmont Mining to exploit the region’s watershed for their project and the politicians have responded to the the violence […]

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Froide Comme Une Reine

October 24, 2011 – 8:07 am

The Financial Times, which is the foreign rival to the Murdoch-onwed Wall Street Journal, has reported that Buckingham Palace has joined millions of other homes throughout Britian in ‘fuel poverty’ in which a homeowner pays more than 10% of their income on fuel. Oil prices in Britain are at an all-time high as commodity traders […]

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MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN by Noel Coward

July 24, 2011 – 8:05 pm

Mad Dogs and Englishmen (Noel Coward) In tropical climes there are certain times of day When all the citizens retire, to tear their clothes off and perspire. It’s one of those rules that the biggest fools obey, Because the sun is much too sultry and one must avoid its ultry-violet ray — Papalaka-papalaka-papalaka-boo. (Repeat) Digariga-digariga-digariga-doo. […]

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No-Go Zone on the Hudson

April 23, 2011 – 2:03 pm

Last weekend I rode the Hudson Line north to Poughkepsie. Spring was suffering a delay thanks to a powerful storm warping across the nation. Heavy winds were expecting to batter the region overnight. I sat by the window and watched the a gray rain lace the river. At times the opposite bank was obscured by […]

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