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This is a great spoof site that attempts to highlight the silliness of carbon offsetting by applying the same principle to relationships.  Thanks to local supporter Marilyn Zavitz.

The “100%” in the the title above refers to “100%” of home electricity — not home heating, industrial electricity, and certainly not transportation.  But this represents a major post-Bali turnaround and a difficult goal to acheive in just 13 years.  Read the whole article in The Independent.

Yesterday, after getting an emergency appeal from the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition (CYCC) delegation to Bali, I sent out an urgent appeal to all our supporters to bombard the Prime Minister’s office with requests to stop blocking the negotiations.  Basically, Canada was the only holdout Kyoto nation refusing to endorse targets of 25-40% by 2020.  I have no doubt that because of this tremendous effort by CYCC and their supporters here in Canada, Minister John Baird in Bali capitulated to the pressure and agreed to the targets other countries proposed.  Thank you to everyone who contacted the Prime Minister.     Read more »

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week, I fasted with Donna Dillman and several other supporters, including our nominated candidate Sharon Howarth.  We all sat with Donna at the Legislature every afternoon.  It was an eye-opening experience, with a lot of counterproductive heckling and shouting in a rabidly partisan atmosphere.     Read more »

Donna Dillman is well and eating again.  She did not get the requested moratorium on uranium mining from Premier McGuinty.  Instead, after 68 days without solid food (the final two on water only), a number of organizations stepped in and promised to hold a public inquiry into uranium mining on her behalf.  These included the Canadian Coalition Against Mining Uranium (CCAMU), Greenpeace, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE), WWF, Suzuki Foundation, Sierra Club and others.  This was announced at a press conference in the provincial Legislature following a march organized by Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT).

Glenn MacIntosh of EcoSanity, who has been following the story with a video recorder, took videos of Donna getting her first bite to eat.

Many heartfelt thanks to our MPP Peter Tabuns, whose office Donna occupied for over 2 weeks in Toronto, and who officially acknowledged her daily in the Legislature.  Peter also helped to organize 2 press conferences and 2 marches over that period.