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Get ready for the Community Power Conference 2010
Join Ontario's largest annual gathering of
Community Power producers, proponents and supporters
The Community Power Conference 2010 is hosted by
the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association
(OSEA). Together with the Power Networking
Centre trade show, the conference attracts
industry regulators, commercial and community
power generators, farmers and First Nation and Métis delegations.
The conference offers two full days of meeting
and learning from community power experts, while
the trade show displays the latest innovations in
power generation technologies and services.
WHEN AND WHAT:
- November 14, 2010 (1:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.)
The Green Connection opening reception
co-organized with Green Enterprise Ontario (GEO)
- November 15-16, 2010 (7:00 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.)
Second Annual Community Power Conference
- November 16 - 17, 2010 (8:00 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.)
Power Networking Centre trade show co-organized
with the Association of Power Producers of Ontario (APPrO)
- November 15, 2010 (7:00 -9:30 pm)
Presentation of Community Power Awards.
WHERE:
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, South Building, 700 and 800 Level
222 Bremner Blvd., Toronto, ON Canada
This year, conference organizers have attracted
the following Ontario-wide and international
experts to speak at seminars and share their thoughts.
Speakers from Ontario include:
- Colin Anderson, Chief Executive Officer of the Ontario Power Authority
- The Honourable Brad Duguid, Ontario Minister of Energy
- Gord Miller, Environmental Commissioner of Ontario
- Tom Rand, Advisory and Practice Lead of Cleantech, MaRS
- Michael Lyle, Vice President, Legal,
Aboriginal and Regulatory Affairs, Ontario Power Authority
- Don McCabe, Vice President, Ontario Federation of Agriculture
- Jennifer Green, Executive Coordinator,
Agrienergy Producers' Association of Ontario
- Donna Cansfield, MPP and Parliamentary
Assistant to the Ontario Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing
International speakers include:
- Shaun Chapman, Vote Solar, United States
- Mary Dougherty, Embark, Australia
- Stefan Gsaenger, Ingenieurbüro Henning Holst, Germany
- Johan Lewin, Seeland Development Trust, South Africa
- Preben, Maegaard, Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy, Denmark
- Miguel Mendoca, World Future Council, United Kingdom
- Fabio Rosa, Brazilian engineer who
brought solar power to rural communities of Brazil
The full list of speakers and their biographies can be found at:
cpconference.ca/Page.asp?PageID=924&SiteNodeID=385
For further details, please visit: www.cpconference.ca
The conference schedule can be found at:
www.cpconference.ca/Page.asp?PageID=861&SiteNodeID=384
To register for the conference, please visit:
For more information or to schedule interviews
with any of the speakers above, please contact:
Maria Leung, Environmental Communication Options,
mleung@ecostrategy.ca OR 416-972-7401
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OSEA works to initiate, facilitate and support
the work of local sustainable energy organizations through
membership services, province wide capacity
building and non-partisan policy work. They work
to catalyze the efforts of community organizers
and raise awareness of the benefits of community
power and renewable energy through various
communication channels and by offering a variety
of workshops and guidebooks on topics.
Janet Tallarigo Murphy © 2006
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One cycle ends…
while another starts the round…
Molting…
feathers on the ground.
Tender changes, always come…
newly found.
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Dave and I went for a walk this morning and we were gifted with 8 feathers...this is one of them.
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This is a quote that I remind myself of often at work. I took photos of signs around town then used photoshop to crop the letters and words to create a poster for a project.
-Unknown author
100 Salt Lake City activists after blockading 4 entrances to the Exxon station for 27 minutes; one minute for each year they lied and broke the law.
Champion of the Thames, King Street, Cambridge
I've been coming into this pub for 35 years now, and it's hardly changed at all in all that time. It's the last real pub in Cambridge city centre.
I was chatting to the bloke behind the bar, telling him it was five years since my last visit and I'd been apprehensive about what I might find.
He thought for a moment. "Five years, let me think," he pondered. "I reckon the only thing we've changed in the last five years is that light bulb in the corner." Champion.
saw this colourful leaf while out walking through the woodland area at Canvey Wick with Meg ! ..... :)
... it's time for a Tusker beer ...
... een koel bierke in een pittoresk huisje in de Gabbra woestijn.
Aan de muur een ware kalender 2010 met plezante pentekeningen over het watertekort in de wereld. Hij wordt uitgegeven door de overheid van Kenia, om de mensen bewust te maken van de waarde van het water!
ANZ Customers in Dunedin, New Zealand close their banks accounts with the
message, "we will no longer stand by and watch silently as ANZ funds the
destruction of our planet"
- Photos from December 2, campaign ongoing.
Facebook: December 2
Thank you,
Charlie
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General, brief his staff at the first day of the COP26 Climate Change Conference 2021, Glasgow, Scottish Event Campus, Scotland. 1 November 2021
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and State Department Senior Adviser David Thorne sit with Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, on January 21, 2016, in Davos, Switzerland, during a discussion focused on climate change on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
Sadly, Poltz is almost too big for the changing table. What a fatty.
This is where Poltz hangs out during the day. It's a real good time to enter the nursery with a crying baby who wants his diaper changed in one hand and have to shoo away a 17 lb. cat with the other.
Changed the Hetres to Pari Motos (the Hetres lasted >4000 miles!), ripped the pockets off the sides of the bag, replaced Candy pedals with Eggbeater 11s.
You can't see it here, but I'm also using a top secret 50 g 650B tube. So far they've gone 1600 miles without a puncture, the last 400-500 under the delicate Pari Motos.
A friend still has her first cellphone as a memento. That's my current Nokia beside it - a tenth of the volume and ten times the standby and talk times.
I haven't been posting because my brain is tied up in redecorating the bedroom. This duvet cover from Dwell Studio caught my eye while I was at Target the other day and started the whole process. My previous photo must have been my inspiration- probably because I was so excited it made Explore the image was stuck in my brain. I have lots to finish up and will post more photos when it's completed. :)
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January 28, 2011
Many people wonder what teachers carry around with them in their "teacher" bag every night. here is what is currently in mine.
A change-over complete, the relief driver prepares to start out as two others sit and await their charges at Brandon Terrace, Canonmills. This has been the change-over point for Lothian's service 27 since 1969, and more recently for service 23.
Gemini 357 is part of a newish batch of vehicles delegated to services 4, 5, 19, 23 and 27 though in reality can be found on any route as the enthusiasm for 'branded buses' has somewhat diminished in recent times. The driver will go north past the Botanic Gardens to the typically suburban Silverknowes, where after a lay-over he'll return on the uphill climb to the city and onwards to Hunter's Tryst.
Not a lot changes down the years in these back alleys, or Tenfoots that run between the terraced houses in the Southern end of Gainsborough: the occasional gate may be replaced, a wall or outhouse rebuilt (or demolished), and the roadway re-tarmac'd, but it all basically stays the same. Here, even the 1950s concrete street lamp looks the same as I recall 30 or more years ago, though I think it is now a Mercury vapour lamp, where once it was the comforting yellow glow of a Sodium lamp.
This is the back of Sandsfield Lane, Gainsborough.
Camera: Nikon F5
Lens: Nikkor 35-70mm zoom
Film: Kodak Ektar 100
Then followed that beautiful season... Summer....
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Old buildings associated with the fishing industy were often painted with red ochre, hydrated iron oxide -- deposits of the pigment occur naturally around the island of Newfoundland, and it was mixed with fish oil* to make paint. These red buildings abound on Change Islands off Newfoundland's coast.
*According to Wikipedia: The dry ingredient, ochre, was mixed with some type of liquid raw material to create a rough paint. The liquid material was usually seal oil or cod liver oil in Newfoundland and Labrador, while Scandinavian recipes sometimes called for linseed oil. Red ochre paint was sometimes prepared months in advance and allowed to sit, and the smell of ochre paint being prepared is still remembered by many today.
Variations in local recipes, shades of ore, and type of oil used resulted in regional variations in color. Because of this, it is difficult to pinpoint an exact shade or hue of red that would be considered the traditional “fishing stage red”. Oral tradition in the Bonavista Bay area maintains that seal oil would give a purer red color, while cod liver oil would give a “foxy” color, browner in hue.
As I have mentioned previously, I am a fan of architecture in many forms - Roman to modern. This building is on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin, and I came across it while on a solo photowalk this past summer. It is interesting how photography makes you look at things differently than you did before you caught the bug - and even look at things you would never waste a glance on before. In this case, I was really enjoying all the different patterns, colors and textures in this scene though as a college student I walked by this building probably every day and never noticed any of it. I guess photography really does change you - or at least change what you look at. Which reminds me of a quote from Wayne Dyer that I am a fan of: "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change". So true.
from the blog at www.nomadicpursuits.com
Studio 26 - photo video.
I'm sorry, studio 26 members, I had to pick this one as my final challenge item. With just two items to chose from, it was pretty easy to pick my favorite, as the other one is mostly a walk through an old house.
Residents of the small coastal village, La Manzanilla, Mexico gathered in the Square at 11 am on Friday Feb 13, 2015 in support of Global Divestment Day. The young people pictured here and many of the adults are involved with the organic garden project sponsored by Tieralegre.
Go Alternative Energy!! Juntos con la Tiera!
Photographer: Gail Weiss.
Each year, we get gifts we don't really need. Some we don't even want. America is about to spend another $450 billion to celebrate the holidays - that's enough to solve the water crisis several times over.
This holiday season I want to help Charity Water build wells to provide clean water. Join me and help create a ripple of good around the world with random acts of kindness.
When I learned that only $20 can give someone clean, safe water for two decades, I decided to start a campaign to help. Now, my goal is to raise $1000 to build wells in developing nations.
And the cool thing about charity: water is that they spend 100% of the money I raise directly on the water projects. Even better, when projects are complete, every dollar is tied to village and all the wells are posted on Google Earth.
So here's my pitch: Skip Starbucks for one day and donate the $5 bucks to help Charity Water build fresh water wells in Africa!
"Habits of thought in the tradition of science are not readily changed, it is not easy to deviate from the customary channels of accumulated experience in conventionalized subjects."
– G. L. Jepsen (1949) as quoted by Niles Eldredge, "Time Frames: The Evolution of Punctuated Equilibria" (1985).
"I swear that what I went through, no animal would have gone through." This sentence, the noblest ever spoken, this sentence that defines man's place in the universe, that honors him, that re-establishes the true hierarchy, floated back into my thoughts.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Wind, Sand and Stars".
"What sort of countenance does love have? What sort of shape does it have? What sort of height does it have? What sort of feet does it have? What sort of hands does it have? No one can say. Yet it has feet, for they lead to the Church. It has hands, for they stretch out to the poor person. It has eyes, for that is how he is in need is understood: Blessed, it says, is he who understands."
– Augustine of Hippo, "Homilies on the First Epistle of John".
Julien Vincent from Greenpeace joins the 350.org #endfossilfuelsubsidies
twitter storm. (c) James Alcock / 350.org
Opal is a color-change stone. When you spin the stone around, colours might appear or disappear, or change completely. It's quite magical. This is NOT a gem-quality opal, rather it's a boulder opal, because the opal veins are embedded in a brownstone called ironstone.
Had the entire stone displayed the colourful patches, this stone would have costed probably USD $8,000 and up!
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Of all the beautiful and expensive gemstones that I cannot afford, opal is the one that I like the most.
High-quality precious black opals from Australia can cost easily between USD $5,000 to $15,000 each. Opal is a natural amorphous silica with a water content varying from one to twenty percent, depending on the porosity and degree of hydration. Precious opal usually contains from six to ten percent water. The chemical formula for opal is SiO2·nH2O.
Thankfully I came across this boulder opal for only USD $14. I can afford that!
Basically, a boulder opal is an opal embedded in a brown rock called ironstone, like the one you see here. Had the entire gemstone displayed the colourful and colour-changing nature, this opal would have been worth probably around USD $8,000. But because only very few stripes (known as veins) display the colourful diffraction of light, this stone is not considered gem-quality, which is why it goes for less than USD $100. In my case, bidding ended at USD $14 so I was quite lucky.
Some interesting facts about opal:
1) Green and blue play of colour is most common, red less so.
2) Because of the unusual way opal is formed, and how light is diffracted from it, colour may appear or disappear under different light sources, or may change from one colour to another completely.
3) Depending on the play of colour, the value of an opal can vary significantly.
4) As a natural silica, opals are very fragile. Drop it on a hard surface and cracks can appear, or worse still, the whole piece might shatter.
Also remember, this opal only measures 17.2 mm x 12.1 mm, so the photos shown here have been magnified by 3 times, if not more.
The seller of the opals on eBay post videos of the stones. And this is a video of the stone I bought.