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Earth hour countdown.  This Saturday (March 29th) don’t bother turning your lights on when dusk hits, leave the TV off, the radio as well.  Invite some friends over, burn a few candles for mood, and strike up say… a conversation.  One without referring to the great Google for answers, try debating the topic, you don’t […]

In the end, 99% of developers just want to build and sell homes and attain maximum profit.  After all, it wouldn’t be a capitalist society if that weren’t the case.  This usually manifests in cookie cutter developments based on for the most part poorly designed model homes built quickly and cheaply.
But what if they could […]

Earth hour montreal style will entail people doing what they will in their homes with little guidance or fanfare from city hall.  As per the norm, Montreal jumps on a bandwagon but brings nothing but horse shit to the party.
The press release reads like a last ditch effort to let people know how eco friendly […]

Quick read on a new ‘heat map’ that UQAM’s department of geography has produced showing localized hot spots around the city. (I need to find the actual map, sorry  - update below)
Take one large highway (HWY13) add two adjacent massive shopping mall parking lots and you get a micro climate of 42C in the […]

I’ve used that term in some carpentry work in the past, but hadn’t thought about it’s relation to dam reservoir levels. It seems Pakistan’s Tarbela dam is running at dead level, which means that the turbines are running off only the natural flow of the river and not on any added kinetic energy provided […]

Made my daily trek to the local HD yesterday and looky looky. Quebec’s home renovation warehouse was shut down due to snow loading on the roof. Ha. I was surprised that Réno’s marketing crew weren’t in the lot shooting snaps and sending the dozens of customers down the road for their supply […]

So if I left this guy tethered here till spring he’d be flapping in the wind come May.  I would estimate the top of this ’scoop-da-poop’ sign to be about 10′.

From Autopia:
First, the 12 greenest cars:
1. Honda Civic GX (they’ve sold about 1000, mostly fleet and gov, woopdeedo)
2. Toyota Prius
3. Honda Civic Hybrid
4. Smart ForTwo
5. Toyota Yaris
6. Nissan Altima Hybrid
7. Toyota Corolla
8. Mini Cooper / Clubman
9. Ford Focus
10. Toyota Camry Hybrid
11. Honda Civic
12. Honda Fit
The dirty dozen are:
1. VW […]

I had a chance to speak with Montreal City councilor Alan DeSousa last night during the first major public hearing on project Griffintown. I wanted to get more specifics on Montreal’s participation in Earth Hour 2008.
Apparently the resolution will be tabled and voted on during the next council session and a press release will follow.

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