PostedApr 24, 2020 | Covid-19, international news, lifestyle, news
Rosco Reports by Ross Thrasher The COVID-19 virus continues its relentless march around the globe, with total cases consistently increasing daily by around 80,000 and deaths by several thousand per day. About 27% of the 2.7 million positives have now recovered. The...
PostedApr 21, 2020 | Covid-19, international news, lifestyle, news
Rosco Reports IV by Ross Thrasher Today’s international coronavirus totals: 2.4 million cases and 165,000 deaths. The USA represents nearly one-third of these cases and almost one-quarter of the fatalities. A recent article in The Atlantic discusses a new...
PostedJan 9, 2020 | climate change, news, opinion, policy
This is my charge to everyone: We have to be better. We have to love more and hate less, listen more and talk less. It is our responsibility to make this world a better place. Megan Rapinoe Co-captain World Cup winning US Women’s Soccer Team A Mountain to Climb We...
PostedOct 6, 2019 | climate change, e-vehicles, energy, lifestyle, news, sustainability, technology
Written by Bill Stovin Are you thinking of buying an electric vehicle (EV)? Well, the province of British Columbia has just added a new incentive for higher-level charging stations at your house, condo/apartment building or workplace. It’s part of the BC Government’s...
PostedOct 6, 2019 | climate change, e-vehicles, lifestyle, news, sustainability, technology
For the inaugural event in GTEC’s Neighbourhood Environmental Education program, people crowded into a room at Kitsilano Neighbourhood House on Wednesday night, October 2 to hear Sara Fralin from the Fraser Basin Council, Emotive program talk about electric vehicles....
PostedJun 24, 2019 | lifestyle, news, sustainability
On last Thursday night, June 20 I dropped by the 1st Anniversary celebration of Nada, the package-less store at Fraser and Broadway. The founders of Nada are two young women, Brianne Miller and Alison Carr, refugees from graduate studies in marine biology, overcome by...
