ZodomaticaBits of Tzaddi's Life

So am I the only one just a little consumed with how to vote on October 14th? I’m guessing not. The Vote For Environment site makes a great point: the majority of Canadians support action on the environment. Harper does not. The folks at Avaaz put it even more strongly: Save the planet: stop Harper!. [...]

Posted: October 5th, 2008 under Activism.
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A wonderful animation* of an interview recorded with John Lennon in 1969. Via Theme Magazine. (*Though, as a Canadian, I do cringe at the part where a big fat NOTHING is displayed over my beloved homeland. )

Posted: September 7th, 2008 under Activism, Art.
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I received the latest newsletter from Quest Food Exchange, an organization I’ve written about before. They do an amazing job of diverting food that would otherwise go to our landfills into “nutritious meals and hampers, garden and greenhouse compost and animal feed”. Now they’re expanding their great model across the province. So without further ado, [...]

Posted: July 10th, 2008 under Activism.
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My brother Reay sent me a link to some very interesting art by Chris Jordan of Seattle. Jordan describes it thus: Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that [...]

Posted: April 17th, 2008 under Activism, Art, Culture Consumed.
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I recently built a new speechwriter’s site for Colin Moorhouse. Over the years I’ve helped Colin with his websites, bailing him out of trouble when things got too technical or fixing them when his WYSIWYG editor messed things up. Now that it’s in WordPress he’s updating like mad, and it’s wonderful to watch it come [...]

Posted: March 1st, 2008 under Activism, Culture Consumed, Design.
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