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West Wing of Wednesday Night #12
March 11, 2009, Comments Off on West Wing of Wednesday Night #12

Judging by the flowers in our garden, spring has sprung (hopefully!) and once again it will soon be time for another gat ...

Wednesday Night #1402
January 14, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1402

T H E  R E P O R T Several very promising Wednesday Nighter ventures were given airtime. Bert Revenaz gave a brief upda ...

Wollemi Pine
January 5, 2009, Comments Off on Wollemi Pine

The Wollemi™ Pine is one of the world’s oldest and rarest plants dating back to the time of the dinosaurs. With ...

Wednesday Night #1399
December 24, 2008, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1399

With the advent of the winter solstice and all the accompanying festivities to accommodate and reconcile us to one anoth ...

Wednesday Night #1394
November 19, 2008, 1 Comment

Overcoming the small annoyance for some of us (Westmount-Ville-Marie residents) of being in our fourth month of election ...

Monbiot: The degradation of intelligence and learning in American politics
October 28, 2008, 1 Comment

The Triumph of Ignorance Why morons succeed in U.S. politics (The Guardian) How was it allowed to happen? How did politi ...

Wednesday Night #1390
October 22, 2008, 2 Comments

T H E  R E P O R T Maureen Farrow paid an unexpected – and most welcome – visit, contributing immensely to ...

Denmark: Energy consumption and clean power
August 10, 2008, Comments Off on Denmark: Energy consumption and clean power

Danish Wind Industry Association  August 10 America needs to learn from Denmark, which responded to the 1973 Arab oil e ...

Rainfall alert on global warming
August 8, 2008, Comments Off on Rainfall alert on global warming

August 8 Report: Rainfall extremely sensitive to temperature Heavy tropical rainfall increases proportionately to warmin ...

Can This Planet Be Saved?, Paul Krugman
August 1, 2008, Comments Off on Can This Planet Be Saved?, Paul Krugman

August 1, 2008 Please see Uncertainty and Climate change (Op-Ed, NYT) Recently the Web site The Politico asked Nancy Pel ...