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            • January 27, 2006

              "It's Those Damn Canadians Again!"

            • So here I am on my nightly stroll around my downtown SLC neighborhood (not sure you can consider malls, office buildings, and Temple's a neighborhood, but I'm gonna run with it anyway ;) and, just outside my apartment complex, I find what looks to me like a great little 'eco-friendly' blog post in the making.

              "Fantastic!" I think to myself. "I have my camera with me... I'll take a picture and then go home and blog about how great and wonderful it is that folks here in the U.S. are starting to get the point that we can't keep drowning our environment with eco-pollutants and expect to have a half way decent place for our kids to survive in (no, I don't mean live... at this stage survival is about the best I think we can hope for!)"

              "Click. Snap!":

              damncanadiansfromside-small.jpg

              "Hmmm.... Out of curiosity I should look to see what type of eco-friendly vehicle this is so I can do a little research and see what this baby's packin'!"

              "Ahhh... Hell No!...":

              damncanadians-small.jpg

              "What," I think to myself "its not enough for our 'Neighbors to the North' to stake claim to the Brothers Bray who are teaching us a thing or two about how to properly build software and live a good 'citizen' based life, but now they've gotta show us how to be eco-friendly too?!"

              "Hmmm... Good for them!" I say outloud.

            • Posted by m.david : January 27, 2006 03:36 AM GMT

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              • You can accuse Canada of lots of things, but don’t accuse us of being eco-friendly. In the U.S., you ban logging to protect an endangered owl or frog; in Canada, that would be unthinkable — we practically give away old growth forest to logging companies, and invite mining companies to dig anywhere that’s out of sight of the cities. We produce more greenhouse gasses per-capita than the U.S. (not just because it’s colder), and our tar sands are one of the world’s dirtiest energy sources, at least in the extraction. Oh yeah, we wiped out the North Atlantic cod stocks as well.

              • Posted by: David Megginson at January 27, 2006 12:48 PM

              • Yeah, the “smart” cars have been certified in Canada for a couple of years now, and according to the manufacturer, now also in the US.

                http://www.zapworld.com/cars/smartcar.asp

                Looks like a spot of fun for a commuter vehicle.

              • Posted by: Adam Constabaris at January 27, 2006 03:47 PM

              • Hey David,

                As always, you have enlightened me. Of course, I was just taking this at surface value, not digging any deeper to learn if my ‘accusations’ were, in fact, correct.

                This is one of the amazing things about the web… ESPECIALLY now with blogging mixed in. This kind of information was simply not accessible to the masses unless ‘mass media’ made it so. Of course, when I say accessible, I don’t mean to infer that before now it was inaccessible.

                Or do I? It’s tough to say anymore what has been made possible because of Tim Berners-Lee and his creative side. This would be something you would probably be one of the better people to ask:

                What is now accessible and/or possible that wasn’t before the WWW came into first, existence, and now, a siginificant piece of each of our lives?

                Thoughts?

              • Posted by: M. David Peterson at January 27, 2006 05:30 PM

              • Hi Adam,

                Thanks for the link! They do look like fun, and something of interest, especially being one who is more inclined to the live at the city level.

                Definitely something I plan to look into further.

                Thanks again for the link!

              • Posted by: M. David Peterson at January 27, 2006 05:34 PM

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