"It takes a very good bowl of porridge..."
Jeremy Cherfas talks to Laura Valli about porridge, and the Estonian porridge café she helped to found, on the latest episode of Eat This Podcast.Jeremy CherfasPorridgeEstoniaLaura Valli
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The 64 Bit MacOS Apocalypse Has Arrived
With the release of MacOS Catalina yesterday, I was reminded that it’s no longer possible 32 bit applications if I upgrade.If you’re a Mac user, you’ve likely wondered about dialog boxes like this that...
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Darcie's Campaign Video
On Sunday morning Oliver alerted me that Darcie Lanthier, our Green candidate for Charlottetown, had put out a call for volunteers to meet that afternoon on the Confederation Centre of the Arts plaza...
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Night Bartend
Oliver and I went to Baba’s for supper one night last week, his first time there, what with it being primarily a bar and all. I have a good meal every time I eat at Baba’s, and during the day and early...
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Zero Waste Night Market
Oliver and I cycled out to the Zero Waste Night Market tonight at Riverview Country Market. There was a good crowd of people in attendance, including a healthy cross-section of the Green caucus,...
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The Most Important Chart of this Election
The CBC had Navius Researchanalyze the platforms of the four major federal political parties in this month’s election“to project the impact of each party’s climate policies.”Here’s the chart that says...
View Article"It's fine to model sustainable behaviour, just don't be an asshole about it..."
My friend Bree pointed me to the work of scholar Shahzeen Attari whose research, says her bio, “focuses on people’s judgments and decisions about resource use and systems, and how to motivate action on...
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Elizabeth May Eats Lunch on a Rainy Saturday
rainy-market.mp3Oliver’s got the death of a cold, so I made my way to the Charlottetown Farmers’ Market by myself this morning.After a healthy amount of Duckduckgoing “how to cycle in the rain,” I...
View ArticleIf you're thinking of voting Liberal to keep Andrew Sheer from being Prime...
When Green Party leader Elizabeth May said, to Conservative leader Andrew Scheer, in last week’s English language leaders’ debate, “With two weeks left in this election campaign, Canadians can know one...
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Island Waffles
Flour from Crystal Green Farms, milk from Purity Dairy, butter from ADL, eggs from Paul Offer. Only the baking powder and the salt came from away.WafflesPrince Edward IslandFood
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A Sunday in the Altruistic Boiler Room
What with the maelstrom that our family has found itself in for the past month, I’ve been hard-pressed to find any time to help out on Darcie Lanthier’s Green campaign here in Charlottetown. But things...
View Article"Something Like Irresponsibility"
An essay in Belt Magazine by Harmony Cox begins:In the months before I came out of the closet and asked my husband for a separation, I did a lot of things. I googled terms like “later-in-life lesbian”...
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"Vote for Darcie, you also get Elizabeth May"
This is Oliver’s testimonial for Darcie Lanthier, Green candidate for Charlottetown, running on her Facebook page. And he’s right on all points.(The photo was taken on the day Oliver joined both the...
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"The one and only real live Evel Knievel in his first dramatic movie role..."
I heard a passing reference to the late motorcycle stunt impresario Evel Knievel last week that brought back a lot of memories. In a way that would perhaps boggle the mind of younger people, Knievel...
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Cycling to Home Hardware
On Wednesday night I had some errands to run: I needed a carbon monoxide detector, some light bulbs, some vitamin D, and some throat lozenges (the latter because I was feeling a cold coming on, a cold...
View ArticleHuman Infrastructure, Sex and Cycling
From the introduction to Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life:And finally, in Chapter 9, I describe the single most important thing you can do to improve your...
View Article15 Days Car-Free
Looking back over the digital breadcrumbs that Google sprinkles along my daily travels, I realized this morning that I haven’t driven our car at all for the last 15 days.This hasn’t been part of some...
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"Deze blogpost is speciaal"
My friend Ton wrote a special blog post just for me to highlight a feature he added to his blog to make it easier for (and other non-Dutch or non-German readers) to read his non-English posts on...
View ArticleDog River Road
When the Cornwall bypass gets turned on this week, road sections formerly known as “Trans-Canada Highway” will get renamed; Valerie is on top of what they’re getting renamed to.
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E-Day
We woke up at 6:30 a.m. today to join a Green “sign wave” at the North River Road-Capital Drive corner. I’m now shifting to the “get out the vote” ground game, doing a door to door foot canvas...
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