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tram tram

June 12th, 2008 2 Comments

With all this talk about new tramways running around town, I was wondering what all that infrastructure would cost (some say 44Million/km, some say 80).
On my end I think it’s a complete waste of money to build:

the tracks
the nasty power lines
the special track clearing machines for snow and ice
the service depots for trams
the ’stations’
and ummm […]

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unmetered waste

June 8th, 2008 No Comments

Water.  Buzzword of the next century.  Oil is so passé.
Watching a client drain (mostly) and  then refill his swimming pool with a an unmetered water supply strikes me as the very heart (or at least the kidneys) of our wasteful ways.  No consideration goes into the costs of flushing tens of thousands of litres down […]

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publiS!(*#*&^!

April 23rd, 2008 1 Comment

OK, that does it.
Cause of the Month for MAY:  Ridding the neighbourhood of Publi-Sac.
This now makes 3 weeks in a row that they don’t respect our handmade ‘pas de circulaires’ sticker.  So I call again.  The nice lady on the phone didn’t get yelled at, because that wouldn’t solve a thing.  What she did mention […]

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what goes in

March 25th, 2008 No Comments

…to my dog is, well anything he can find on the ground including cardboard, random crumbs and if he has room, dog food.
This, as you may want to visualize results in waste. Specifically, dog shit.
We’ve been using PoopEase baggies for the last few months as I negligently fell into the greenwash of the packaging […]

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