If you live in Canada in the GTA or in the Guelph, Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo area, you can participate in the Keep Cool program.
Keep cool, a program of the Clean Air Foundation, is a market transformation campaign that encourages individuals to permanently retire and recycle their old, inefficient room air conditioners and to adopt cleaner [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2008
May 28, 2008
May 28, 2008
Dates designated for the promotion of environmental issues.
World Wetlands Day - February 2
UN World Day for Water - March 22
UN World Meteorological Day - March 23
Earth Day - April 22
Arbor Day - Last Friday in April
International Migratory Bird Day - May 3
International Day for Biological Diversity (World Biodiversity Day) - May 22
Bike-to-Work Week - Third [...]
May 27, 2008
I would love to figure out what the various types of personalities are and how they are mapped to a rational decision making process and those that go strictly with their gut. I am a go with my gut kind of guy. For example here is my decision making process when it comes [...]
May 26, 2008
The UK government is considering a carbon allowance for UK citizens to help it meet its targets for carbon reduction. Known as Personal Carbon Trading, the idea is that everyone will have their own quota so that somebody who uses too much can buy credits from someone who uses less.
Unfortunately, it’s looking as the though [...]
May 23, 2008
Everyday I get one or two emails that go something like this: “this guy is traveling in the opposite direction” or “this pickup requires a detour” or more often simply “this is not on my way”.
I answer these comments happily because I know that every single one of our members has a different expectation as [...]
May 23, 2008
I have to set this up - so last weekend I went with some buddies out into the Canadian Wilderness, (Algonquin Park), to get away from things and to experience the great outdoors. The long and the short of it all is that it was at first sunny and warm and then turned cold, [...]
May 22, 2008
Well in the immortal words of Otis Redding and covered ohh so well by the Black Crowes:
“Baby here I am
I’m the man on the scene
I can give you what you want
But you gotta come home with me”
[NOTE: It was on this tour when I first saw the Black Crowes - Awesome band live! I [...]
May 20, 2008
NOTE: This is not groundbreaking news however it is pretty funny.
I mentioned in a post a few weeks ago that PickupPal will be providing Ridesharing services for Virgin Festival Canada 2008 by Virgin Mobile in Calgary but we are also going to have a booth at the Eco-Village on site. As soon [...]
May 20, 2008
Eric has blogged about this issue: trust/stranger/feeling safe…In my mind, there is no way to be 100% sure that someone you are interacting with, who you have not known for a certain amount of time, is a “safe” person (for lack of a better word). At work, at the grocery store, at the park, at [...]
May 16, 2008
I saw this photo on a travel blog I read occasionally. This is probably the most amount of people I’ve ever seen traveling on or in a single vehicle (and I’ve seen whole families on mopeds in Vietnam):
It’s an amazing image, but this rideshare was probably undertaken due to some very extreme conditions. Judging by [...]