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...
PostedJun 14, 2019 | news
After a harrowing few minutes lost in the industrial bowels of New Westminster along the Fraser River, former CBC reporter, Bill Stovin and I found and then stumbled into the Inn on the Quay, site of the Green’s 2019 party convention. It was the Friday afternoon of...
