Pedal to Petal: Sustainable Business Opportunities in Local Backyards
By Steve Carey, Momentum Magazine
In early 2008, Victoria activist Chris Johnson was homeless and looking for work, but he couldn’t find a job that fit his environmental values. At the time, the Capital Regional District was piloting a service where trucks picked up compostable waste and drove [...]
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I’m realizing that blogging is about more than news and current events, which is something that is leading me to share more thoughts and whatnots that aren’t exactly the latest thang.
What I want to share with you today is a piece of writing by Tooker Gomberg. Tooker Gomberg is someone I’ve never met, but having [...]
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Portland.org
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-Alex Felsinger, Planetsave
The police officer who seemingly randomly picked a bicyclist out of a critical mass crowd to tackle has been indicted for falsifying records and could also soon be charged with misdemeanor assault. The YouTube video [above], which went viral soon after the incident, was instrumental in the indictment.
The officer [...]
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-cbc.ca
A man who was facing charges for driving a pedal car won a victory in a Toronto courtroom on Thursday.
Trevor Baldwin was pulled over on a Toronto street last October for operating an unsafe vehicle on Queen Street West.
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What is it with mayors? At the west of the Capital Region, we have the developer’s best friend, Stew Young, whose reign of terror has included greenlighting and championing every development request that has crossed his desk, the worst being ecocidal projects such as Bear Mountain Resort.
In Victoria proper we have a mayor who refuses [...]
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-from Oregon Indymedia
Early evening event “protesting oil dependency and celebrating human body” was assaulted Saturday. The local newspaper reports that as cyclists wended, “…down Charnelton, one officer stopped his car in the middle of the intersection, got out and ordered the cyclists to stop and women to put their tops on.” Several additional police and [...]
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