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Huge Garbage Patch Found in Atlantic Too (feeds.nationalgeographic.com)Billions of bits of plastic are accumulating in a massive garbage patch in the Atlantic Ocean—a lesser known cousin to the Texas-size trash vortex in the Pacific, scientists say.
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Are You Packing Heat? Your Local Newspaper May be Planning to Out You (bigjournalism.com)Two and a half years ago, when readers of the Sandusky Register in Ohio opened the paper on June 25, 2007, many were shocked to find their name, age and county of residence published alongside those of nearly 2,700 other law-abiding private citizens.
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Sudbury Hotels & Motels Ontario | Moonlight Inn & Suites Sudbury (www.moonlightinn.ca)Toll Free Reservations: 1-(800)-424-0321. Local Tel: (705)-566-0321.
Location: 350 Moonlight Avenue, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. P3B 3W3 -
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Illegal loggers hit community reforestation project in Indonesia, spurring questions about REDD (news.mongabay.com)Illegal loggers are targeting community-managed forests in South Sumatra, renewing questions over forestry governance and law enforcement as the Indonesia prepares to capitalize on payments for conservation and reforestation under a proposed climate change mitigation mechanism known as REDD,
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Weekly News Wrap-Up: BikeMonth, BikeMap, BikeTickets (bikingtoronto.com)Weekly News Wrap-Up: BikeMonth, BikeMap, BikeTickets
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Are Toronto Police Ticketing Cyclists More? (bikingtoronto.com)The Bike Union is reporting that some cyclists are reporting that the police are looking for cycling infractions more recently:
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Want to overthrow US government? Pay $5 (www.guardian.co.uk)a law on South Carolina's statute books, called the Subversive Activities Registration Act, allowing anyone wishing to seize or overthrow the government of the US to register with South Carolina's secretary of state and pay a $5 fee
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HAITI...my amazing experience! (www.amelialyon.net)As many of you know, I had the fortunate, life-changing opportunity of going to Haiti recently. I spent two and a half of the most intense and rewarding weeks of my life there, and I happened to have my camera with me. The following photos will help tell some of the stories that I wish to share with you.
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Photos - Father and Son (gatekeeper.tumblr.com)I'm beginning to see the light. I'm a believer. I'm alive. I'm into something good. I'm leaving on a jet plane. I'm every woman. I'm not afraid of anything. I'm on to yo
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35.New Zealand's home-made 'hoverwing' flies 5 feet above water (www.gizmag.com)
Look! Down on the lake … is it a boat, a plane … it's neither. It’s the “hoverwing”, a hovercraft that flies.
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Sea Shepherd (www.seashepherd.org)In 1978, with financial support from Cleveland Amory of the Fund for Animals, the Society purchased its first ship (a British sea trawler Westella) and renamed it the Sea Shepherd. Its first mission was to sail to the ice floes of Eastern Canada to interfere with the annual killing of baby harp seals known as whitecoats.
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Greece's Riot Dog (www.thisblogrules.com)There has been lots of riots and protests from both anarchists and workers in Athens, Greece specially the past few years. One interesting thing is that there is one dog that is spotted at these riots from 2008 till today
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Jane's Walk (janeswalk.ca)Jane’s Walk is a series of free neighbourhood walking tours that helps put people in touch with their environment and with each other, by bridging social and geographic gaps and creating a space for cities to discover themselves.
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Bruce Bell on Subdury's Heritage Lost (www.sudburylivingmagazine.com)Sudbury went though an urban renewal phase in the 1950s and 1960s. Heritage buildings were replaced with newer but less impressive ones. As I walked the streets of the downtown, my heart sank as I stood in parking lot after parking lot.
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Shoal Lake 39 band challenges two-laning - (www.thesudburystar.com)Close to a year after Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced they would provide $100 million for twinning Hwy. 17 from the Manitoba border to Clearwater Bay, Shoal Lake 39 members say they still haven't been consulted.Even though the project will cut through their traditional lands, Kenora-Rainy River MPP Howard Hampton agreed the governments acted as though the community doesn't exist.
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Strikers hit the road to picket AFI security (www.thesudburystar.com)Striking Steelworkers have taken their picket line on the road.Half a dozen members of United Steelworkers Local 6500 turned the table on AFI International Group on Thursday morning and set up a secondary picket at the company's Milton headquarters.
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// CitySwitch Newcastle international workshop on innovation transfer for urban creative enterprise // (cityswitchlab.org)The CitySwitch Lab transfers people between cities to collaborate on the creative activation of urban spaces.
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From NIMBYs To DUDEs: The Wacky World Of Plannerese (www.planetizen.com)Ric Stephens has compiled a list of some of the wackiest -- yet at times quite realistic -- urban planning words, in a vocabulary he has dubbed 'Plannerese.'
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Renew Newcastle (renewnewcastle.org)Renew Newcastle has been established to find short and medium term uses for buildings in Newcastle's CBD that are currently vacant, disused, or awaiting redevelopment.
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The rules for changing rules (emergenturbanism.com)Throughout human history, big improvements in systems of rules took place when new governments entered the scene. In today’s world, this process has been largely shut down. To bring it back to life, Romer proposes that we create new cities where people can go to escape from bad rules and opt in to new and better ones.
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46.Emergent Urbanism, or ‘bottom-up planning’ (www.cityofsound.com)
In short, the city of Newcastle, NSW is the largest coal port in the world. Yet as the harbour has essentially become a giant open mouth belching coal to China, and people and other business have drifted to the suburbs (an over-simplification, but ...), the historic core of the city has hollowed out, leaving numerous vacant buildings
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Video:Pink Terror Hawking (vimeo.com)Lights Out: Slow-motion acts of color-coded violence performed to the tune of Stephen Hawking.
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Must View : Gaming social change (www.urgentevoke.com)EVOKE is a ten-week crash course in changing the world. It is free to play and open to anyone, anywhere. The goal of the social network game is to help empower young people all over the world, and especially young people in Africa, to come up with creative solutions to our most urgent social problems.
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"Life in the Biosphere" event on Saturday March 6th Charles W. Stockey Centre in Parry Sound f (www.gbbr.ca)Come hear our keynote speaker Joseph Klein's presentation "Green Tourism - Paradox?", learn about the activities of the Georgian Bay Biosphere Reserve and listen to opening songs by MinWeWe Women's Hand Drumming Group.
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Police investigate Nude Snow Woman (www.nj.com)Police told a Rahway, New Jersey family to cover their nude snow woman after an anonymous complaint.
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