tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75459923650563797182024-02-18T19:37:45.564-08:00Connexions and ContradictionsTMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822150880553115783noreply@blogger.comBlogger458125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7545992365056379718.post-55210163789104036592014-10-05T10:59:00.001-07:002014-10-05T11:00:05.461-07:00A Responsehttp://www.turningmanagersintoleaders.com/inspire-close-retirement-employee/
After reading the above article I wrote to Merge. I have posted my response below.
Dear Merge:
Your article entitled How To Inspire the
Close-to-Retirement Employee has
inspired me to write after quite a bit of reflection on my part.
In my 30s, I worked as an accountant in public
practiceTMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822150880553115783noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7545992365056379718.post-20370365918208236002014-09-28T09:38:00.002-07:002014-09-28T09:38:46.876-07:00Climate Change and Your Health
The Centers for Disease Control in the States writes that climate change is a health threat. They say
Climate is one of many variables known to affect the rates of these infectious diseases. Climate change may result in changing distribution of VBZD prevalent in the U.S. This could cause formerly-prevalent diseases such as malaria and dengue fever to re-emerge, or TMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822150880553115783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7545992365056379718.post-48134765056244424432014-09-26T17:56:00.006-07:002014-09-26T17:56:57.666-07:00China Canada FIPPA
Elizabeth May's press conference after the China FIPPA was quietly passed on a Friday. Please listen to the whole thing - Elizabeth May is amazing. She says this treaty trumps court decisions.
Why would Mr. Harper pass this thing? Perhaps he's attempting to do an end run around the rights of First Nations. The Tyee suggested that was the case TMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822150880553115783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7545992365056379718.post-10416679149352870242014-09-26T11:36:00.000-07:002014-09-26T11:36:49.468-07:00Climate Change Denial
The climate has changed. It's affecting us. right here, right now. The photo below is of Kamloops on July 23, 2014. No, this dealership isn't anywhere near the river.
Today's Globe and Mail describes an event that affects 20 million people in Brazil. No water.....
South America’s largest city is nine months into an unprecedented drought, with no TMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822150880553115783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7545992365056379718.post-50167248778099076342014-08-20T06:28:00.003-07:002014-08-20T06:29:22.685-07:00Back To LifeThe Fez River winds through the medina of Fez, Morocco—a mazelike medieval city that’s a World Heritage site. Once considered the “soul” of this celebrated city, the river succumbed to sewage and pollution, and in the 1950s was covered over bit by bit until nothing remained. TED Fellow Aziza Chaouni recounts her 20 year effort to restore this river to its former glory, and to transform her city TMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822150880553115783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7545992365056379718.post-36897321270096438662014-08-14T19:35:00.001-07:002014-08-14T19:35:07.291-07:00Is Anyone Else Seeing a Pattern Here?
Recent news:
Near-record
rainfall has caused massive flooding in the Detroit area that is blamed for at least one
death and has made roads impassable, swamped vehicles and flooded basements,
officials said. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/michigan-floods-at-least-1-dead-1-000-cars-abandoned-1.2734986
The country suffered almost €2bn (£1.6bn) worth of damage to homes, TMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822150880553115783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7545992365056379718.post-30512919793274861182013-09-09T09:19:00.003-07:002013-09-09T09:19:47.732-07:00LemmingsI have been thinking about owls, their prey, and population cycles. Per Wikipedia, a population cycle is
a phenomenon where populations rise and fall over a predictable period of time. There are some species where population numbers have reasonably predictable patterns of change although the full reasons for population cycles is one of the major unsolved TMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822150880553115783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7545992365056379718.post-19002148116127116892013-07-26T16:19:00.001-07:002013-07-26T19:17:47.673-07:00WTF, Abbotsford? I knew the Fraser
Valley was
conservative: after all, Gramma lives there and no-one has ever called her inclusive or accepting! However, I didn't think Abbotsford residents were heartless. They certainly sound heartless to me. For one thing, they haven't protested
a bylaw that's been in place since 2005. The bylaw prohibits
harm reduction TMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822150880553115783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7545992365056379718.post-83779017417725709322013-07-24T19:06:00.000-07:002013-07-24T19:06:17.741-07:00That Royal BabyThat royal baby is going to inherit a royal mess!
Rapid thawing of the Arctic could trigger a catastrophic "economic timebomb" which would cost trillions of dollars and undermine the global financial system, say a group of economists and polar scientists.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/24/arctic-thawing-permafrost-climate-change
New research suggests that the Arctic summer TMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822150880553115783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7545992365056379718.post-68210305258065795212013-07-21T21:03:00.001-07:002013-07-21T21:08:29.797-07:00Amazing2013 has been absolutely amazing: not the flooding or the thunderstorms or the heat waves. Although those have been frightening - see the pic below of Toronto residents wading in flash flooding July 8, 2013. ( Picture from the Toronto Star.) The results have been gruesome., to put it mildly. Gruesome and traumatic for the folks affected.
Toronto flooded - TMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822150880553115783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7545992365056379718.post-82898377975814318562013-03-25T19:41:00.000-07:002013-03-26T12:30:01.519-07:00Advertising What in hell is the federal government advertising?
The latest annual report on advertising by the federal government has been posted here. In the fiscal year of 2011-2012, the Harper government spent $78.5 million on advertising, which is actually the lowest total since the Conservatives formed government. http://www2.macleans.ca/tag/government-advertising/
The tar sands , among TMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822150880553115783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7545992365056379718.post-77806148571084433272013-03-24T09:34:00.001-07:002013-03-24T09:35:31.696-07:00Discussion on The Restriction of Plastic Water Bottles
http://www.usernetsite.com/society/every-day-millions-of-plastic-water-bottles-are-being-discarded.php
There is always a tension between
individual rights and collective rights.
We restrict all kinds of behaviour by
law: even though I can make all kinds of money manufacturing and selling
crystal meth, the law prohibits me from doing so. Ditto the manufacture of child porn:&TMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822150880553115783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7545992365056379718.post-76793311077871131132013-03-18T17:03:00.002-07:002013-03-18T17:05:41.954-07:00Make the Impossible Possible
A succinct and frightening explanation ...TMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822150880553115783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7545992365056379718.post-44230868418842065272013-02-03T17:07:00.001-08:002013-02-03T17:07:50.617-08:00Your Right To A Healthy EnvironmentI just listened to a teleconference on the right to a healthy environment.
Do countries with the right to a healthy environment actually have healthier environments and people?
In general, these countries have smaller ecological footprints, rank higher on comparisons of environmental performance and have done a better job of addressing issues such as air pollution and TMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822150880553115783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7545992365056379718.post-27306297350459193082013-02-03T16:47:00.001-08:002013-02-03T16:47:08.034-08:00Crude Reality Alberta's oilpatch is anxious to mine the tar sands and sell dilbit. It would be good for the economy, news media states.
Stymied by insufficient pipeline capacity, Alberta’s oil patch is facing problems in getting its product to market. The resulting glut has driven the price for Western Canadian Select oil more than $30 (U.S.) a barrel below that for West Texas Intermediate crude...However, a TMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822150880553115783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7545992365056379718.post-35681446681477776902013-01-28T18:33:00.001-08:002013-01-28T18:35:45.821-08:00Homophobia Always Hurts - and Sometimes It Kills
Brent Astle: January 28, 2013 to September 30, 2010 (Love you, this life, next life, somewhere, always. )
In "1991 The First
Presidency of the LDS Church stated on NOV-14:
Sexual relations are proper only between husband and
wife appropriately expressed within the bonds of marriage. Any other
sexual contact, including fornication, adultery, and homosexuality TMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822150880553115783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7545992365056379718.post-58348994039615059432013-01-27T17:25:00.002-08:002013-01-27T17:25:55.121-08:00Transparency and Accountability
The Calgary Herald rants about transparency and a lack of accountability at the Attawapiskat reserve.
Canadian taxpayers want fairness and justness when it comes to how public money is being spent.....The treaties were signed by all parties involved, and that includes the federal government, which has every right to demand accountability for public money as its part of the bargain. WithoutTMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822150880553115783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7545992365056379718.post-56666951322321037602013-01-27T11:59:00.001-08:002013-01-27T11:59:13.898-08:00 Idle No More
Idle No More reverberates with echoes from Martin Luther King and the civil righrs movement. A commonter noted on January 9, 2013 that Idle No More began as a response to a government action - a fact that is often missed.
What is obvious from much of the coverage and commentary is that the issue of Bill C-45 has been lost in the fray. It was this omnibus bill that started the TMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822150880553115783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7545992365056379718.post-58235954101574110032013-01-24T09:50:00.004-08:002013-01-24T09:50:59.276-08:00Gee, This'll Really Hit Home! Your morning cup of coffee is endangered. No, really!
The study, ... focuses primarily on Ethiopia, considered to be the birthplace of coffee. Temperatures there have been going up by an average of almost 0.3 degrees per decade since 1960....What’s at stake is Ethiopia’s wild Arabica, which Davis says is home to anywhere from 80 percent to 98.8 percent of the species’s gene poolTMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822150880553115783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7545992365056379718.post-85393091277570070782013-01-23T15:27:00.000-08:002013-01-23T15:27:13.149-08:00Wade Davis: The Worldwide Web of Belief and Ritual
Not only are not other cultures failed attempts at being us, their values can give us hope. We are not forced to be greedy and destructive - we can learn to live within natural limits. TMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822150880553115783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7545992365056379718.post-24421835968787292812013-01-22T18:03:00.002-08:002013-01-22T18:03:34.909-08:00A New Economic ModelIf you've ever thought that the way economists and accountants ignore "externalities" and consider it beneficial when we fire up a new coal fired electrical plant on- line (more GDP good ! ), then you will be heartened to know some economists are thinking sustainably.
The new economics foundation has some great resources on their site - free!
The Prevention PapersTMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822150880553115783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7545992365056379718.post-73881754118741435032013-01-22T17:40:00.001-08:002013-01-22T17:41:50.595-08:00Conference Board Rates CanadaApparently the Conference Board of Canada has been taken over by pinkos - or foreign radicals - or eco-terrorists.
The Conference Board’s overarching goal is to measure quality of life for Canada and its peers. But a country must not only demonstrate a high quality of life—it must also demonstrate that its high quality of life is sustainable. There is growing recognition thatTMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822150880553115783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7545992365056379718.post-46544684750045626942013-01-20T17:23:00.000-08:002013-01-20T17:23:16.555-08:00What Makes a Good LifeIf my vision in the post below is correct; and we, the people, have a collective death wish; what should environmental activists do about this?
How do we enhance a 'life wish' in the collective unconsciousness?
If we each embrace life, will a complex system change? Maybe......
Most of us don't perceive that we have a good life right now. In fact, the Happy Planet TMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822150880553115783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7545992365056379718.post-15869816620438236012013-01-20T14:55:00.001-08:002013-01-20T14:55:51.102-08:00Self HatredI witnessed a soul retrieval healing for a friend in 2010. While my friend and the healer were journeying, the beat of the drum proved almost hypnotic. I wrote the following:
The healer suggested "outside, in nature find a stick...."
Are we not nature?
Not if we live in a linear world - a poverty stricken world without mess, change or growth.
And we do everything we can to destroy life and TMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822150880553115783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7545992365056379718.post-35979611379899276762013-01-19T12:04:00.003-08:002013-01-19T12:04:42.063-08:00Amazon Degradation
An area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of California continues to
suffer from the effects of a megadrought that began in 2005, finds a new
NASA-led study. These results, together with observed recurrences of droughts
every few years and associated damage to the forests in southern and western
Amazonia in the past decade, suggest these rainforests may be showing the first
signs of TMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02822150880553115783noreply@blogger.com0