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Do no evil

Jul 17th, 2011
by Jordon Cooper.
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Dupont has apparently not heard of Google’s slogan.  It has come out with a new game changing herbicide (good) but then the reports of hundreds of thousands of trees dying starting to roll in.  Dupont says it isn’t their fault but rather than pull the product for more testing, it has kept on selling it [...]

When a park is no longer a park

Feb 8th, 2009
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While we lived in Calgary, our sub division was too new to have much for parks, we had a large field which was rectangle and had grass but that was it.  It allowed us to play baseball, soccer, football, and race our bikes and did everything a park needed to do.  The other extreme are [...]

The Re-emergence of the High Line

Jan 3rd, 2008
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I have never been to New York but one of the things I want to see when I go there is the High Line when it is done.  The New York Times has a nice article on how it is coming along.  It’s enough to make me want to move to New York.  Oh right, [...]

RIP Lawnmower: 1991-2007

May 17th, 2007
by Jordon.
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In 1988 my mom and I drove over to CO-OP and bought our a lawnmower. It outlived my mom but couldn’t outlive the One Tonne Challenge which mortally wounded it as I tried to be more environmentally caring and installed a universal mulching blade on it. I never knew that you should actually replace the [...]

The woodpile

Apr 26th, 2007
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Wendy, Lee, and I finally finished moving all of the logs from the maple tree to a pile in the back of the yard. Here it is. Excuse me while I go and take some back medication.