Green Living at GardenSuperMart.com » environment http://www.gardensupermart.com/green-living/blog Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:06:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 Canada and the US to Open Clean Energy Dialogue http://www.gardensupermart.com/green-living/blog/2009/02/19/canada-and-the-us-to-open-clean-energy-dialogue/ http://www.gardensupermart.com/green-living/blog/2009/02/19/canada-and-the-us-to-open-clean-energy-dialogue/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:32:32 +0000 gerry http://www.gardensupermart.com/green-living/blog/?p=135 Today, during Obama’s visit to Ottawa, Canada, he made it clear that he wants to move quickly, within the first year, to establish U.S. credibility on the environment.   Both Obama and Harper have pledged to work together to catapult environmentally-friendly technologies into action in order to cut emissions from dirty energy sources in both countries.

Could this be the first step towards a continent-wide clean-energy policy? Hope is definitely in the air.

Source = http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/590043

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Are we doomed to roam space in an intergalactic space cruiser, after we’ve destroyed the earth’s environment?  This was actually the premise to a cartoon I watched this weekend, “Wall-E.”

Here’s the synopsis of the movie:

By the early 22nd century, the Buy N Large megacorporation took control of every economic service on Earth, causing excessive worldwide consumerism to cover the planet in un-recycled trash. A plan was implemented that would have the Earth’s population evacuate the planet into space on fully automated luxury starliners where they would spend the next five years, while an army of waste disposal robots called “WALL-E” units (Waste Allocation Load Lifter, Earth-Class) would be left to clean the planet. This plan failed, however, and the planet was deemed uninhabitable. For the next 700 years, humanity continued to live in space while all of the WALL-E robots on Earth eventually broke down.

Is this storyline far-fetched, or could it really happen to us?

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