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22 Feb 2010 01:10 PM
I've been awake for just over an hour now, and I have taken advantage of my access to water almost 10 times and I haven't even showered or eaten yet.
I found this documentary late last night while researching for a feature that I am writing this week and could not turn it off. It has made me seriously reevaluate the direction of my feature and my day to day activities.
Imagine if before I could do any of the things I listed above I needed to walk 500 m or more to a well, and then carry back buckets of water for washing up, drinking, eating, cleaning. Then imagine after I...
22 Feb 2010 01:09 AM
22 Feb 2010 01:07 AM
wo years ago when I was in the market for a new vehicle I spent a lot of time looking at larger SUVs. Anything from the Honda Element to the Dodge Nitro to the Range Rover made the list of cars to consider. I mean, who wouldn’t want to get around in a bad ass Range Rover ($120 fill ups, and environment killing aside)?
In the end, my better judgment took over (for the most part) and I ended up with a more practical, more environmentally friendly car - the Mazda 3. Though not at the top of the list for fuel-efficient vehicles, the Mazda 3 is certainly better than the Range Rover, costing less than $40 to fill and running me somewhere around $1400 a year in fuel. Comparatively, estimates for the Range Rover run from $3,080 to $4,629 a year in fuel. Currently the Honda Civic Hybrid is...
21 Feb 2010 12:12 PM
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21 Feb 2010 12:01 PM
What’s that? The Olympics are happening? IN CANADA?
Yeah, right. Like you or I or anyone else could escape this fact.
The Olympics are a big deal, whether you support them or don’t. Even if you aren’t an avid fan, I bet you know that Canada – specifically Alexandre Bilodeau – won our first Gold on our own turf EVER yesterday in the mens freestyle moguls.
My best friend Anna was lucky enough to have been there and she cried. Imagine, what seems like a ridiculous sport involving plowing over bumps of snow at high speed and doing back flips all the while wearing skis causing this much excitement.
The Olympics do things to people.
It can be awfully moving to know that a large part of the nation you call home is thinking the same thing, hoping for the same outcome, and feeling a sense of connection to those...
20 Jan 2010 05:36 AM
