Archive for August, 2008
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  • Aug, 08

London, Ontario is going to ban bottled water!

Although I’m not a fan of banning everything for our own good, this makes me smile. I’d have preferred if they just levied an environmental impact fee on buyers, but hey.
Read the article on the London’s plans to phase out bottled water.

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  • Aug, 08

Ontario takes a good step to preserve boreal forests

There’s a good writeup CPAWs site about how our Boreal forests are going to be given a bit more protection when industrial development decisions get made. With any new policy or announcement that involves big business and the environment, I’m always a bit skeptical, but this seems like a great start.
Continued conservation of Boreal forests [...]

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  • Aug, 08

Got myself an iPhone

So, lots of new things going on… I’ve got a new job and a new phone and probably a lot less time this year to go camping, but I’ll get a chance to check out the iPhone in the woods.
It has a gps, but I’m not sure how good it will be, since it relies [...]

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  • Aug, 08

I hate blog spam

Here’s a wonderful little comment I got on a past article:
“I found your blog via Google while searching for camping and your post regarding camping store Marathon having end-of-lease sale |  A Word in the Woods by Michael Zimmermann looks very interesting for me. I go camping every weekend during the summer months and I [...]