Tony Lepage

I love to see news articles about cars being destroyed by falling trees but when bikes and cyclists start getting the brunt of things, I am not so pleased.

In Amsterdam, bicyclists were blown over or, in some cases, blown backward. The city’s historic canals were littered with trash barrels, piles of toppled bikes and dozens of broken umbrellas.

CBC News: Hurricane-force winds batter Europe for 2nd day

If you tell the sandwich guy what you don’t want, you’re more likely going to get it.

Check it–stereo headphones suggested.

Lite-headed, Marlboro pallet
Skin and body plus a little time
Make it dark red Shiraz
Raise a glass to unwritten rhyme

I used to say I would never join the army
Won’t be a part of bad motivation
The grain is hard to break, and hard to see
In the middle, don’t lose your ambitions

My words are easy to ignore, whose aren’t?
I told her there is nothing to hide
Bubbles from above are pleasure for all, she says
The feet below ignore her circles

Always living for the future
Always planning the head start
Can I love and be responsible
I think I don’t know my heart

All the socks are turned inside out
Can’t tell the ready from the used
Without seeing the beauty in this hour
Many still struggle to find meaning

The savage, the opera singer, the taken
The seven of hearts and the cheater
The unrequited and the rapper, all beaten
Who’s next for the conquest?

Let’s fly to the next part
Everything dies if you don’t push it
Gotta find time for living in the now
Silver blocks build a small house

The garbage piles up
The cleaner is overwhelmed
With good intentions in hand
The deed goes undone

I’m tired of the empty glass
Finger prints smear the circumference
Waiting too long leaves a dry mess
Filling it up hides the smudges

Shaky fingers clang the keys
Index, index and middle
Index, index, middle
I should have learned to type while I was little.

Here are two songs from a band I recently discovered: Twisterbait

Let’s go shopping

George Bush, Tony Blair, and a psychotic Ronald McDonald go on a crazed shopping trip.

Dead Man

No video for this song, but here’s a link so you can go stream it. The lyrics make the song.

You know who I am…
embryo in a can
mass-produced for the plan
of the few in command
Know this is my place to be
’till my twister comes for me
I know who you are…
silicone in a jar
paralysed in a dream
’cause you’re the fuel for the machine
slowly rolling over you, culling and controlling you
Look at me I’m a dead man, lying in my caravan
waiting for my day to come
waiting same as everyone

Hardwired to exist
Uninspired to resist
Cannon-fired bullet screen
for those inside the limousine
pumping all your days into
the shopping malls erasing you

No place left to go
but to embrace the traffic flow
that took your life and sucked it clean
’cause you’re the fuel for the machine
harnessing your energy
harvesting your family

Look at me I’m a dead man
lying in my caravan
waiting for my day to come
waiting same as everyone
Fire me, I’m your cannonball
Hire me, I’m your defense wall
Head buried in the quicksand
Unable to understand
I can’t see my enemy
I can’t free my family
I can’t keep my energy
Now there’s nothing left of me
Bullet in your magazine
Paper in your guillotine
Nothing will come back to me
Dead man in your factory

For the first time in my life, my hometown, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada had a green Christmas. A Christmas without even a hint of snow is not Christmas in Northern Ontario. On a positive note, it brought the awareness of Global Warming close to home.

Many people look at the absence of snow as a blessing but forget that Global Warming doesn’t mean any more snow; it simply means there will be greater amounts of snow in shorter periods of time—a higher frequency of heavy precipitation in small timeframes and more intense droughts.

Reduce your carbon footprint!

Here are 101 reasons you should make changes within your lives—today.

1. If the biosphere is ruined it will be done by people who know that emissions must be cut - but refuse to alter the way they live
2. How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic
3. Canada’s Top Ten Weather Stories For 2006
4. Canada’s 2004 emissions were 35% above the target to be achieved under the Kyoto Protocol.
5. An Environmental Citizen… Who Me?
6. Rain warnings in B.C., warm weather in Toronto lend to wacky weather picture
7. Walk/Bike: Each Canadian makes an average of 2,000 car trips of less than 3 km each year
8. Climate 2006: Rhetoric up, action down
9. Self sufficient ‘ish’.com - The urban guide to almost self sufficiency.
10. What You Can Do: At Home
11. What You Can Do: At School
12. What You Can Do: At Work
13. What You Can Do: On the Road
14. Greater Toronto Area Clean Air Council
15. A Scan of Climate Change Impacts on Toronto
16. Idling Control By-law and Enforcement Workshop
17. Governments in Action: Toronto #5
18. Recent Toronto Atmospheric Fund grants awards
19. Disappearing world: Global warming claims tropical island
20. Study Says Methane a New Climate Threat
21. Alternative fuels: How they compare
22. Solving the Climate Problem: Technologies Available to Curb CO2 Emissions
23. Carbon footprint calculator
24. Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies
25. International Energy Outlook
26. Climate and health Fact sheet
27. Target: Intensity. An Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Intensity Targets
28. Growing in the Greenhouse: Protecting the Climate by Putting Development First
29. New law permits the burying of CO2
30. MIT survey: Climate change tops Americans’ environmental concerns
31. Department of Energy Advances Commercialization of Climate Change Technology
32. Can carbon dioxide storage help cut greenhouse emissions?
33. Prospects for CO2 Capture and Storage
34. IPCC Special Report on Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage
35. International Carbon Capture and Storage Projects Overcoming Legal Barriers
36. London Protocol Adopts Amendment Allowing for Sub-seabed Carbon Dioxide Storage
37. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
38. Coming to Grips with Global Warming
39. WWF Canada: Save Our Client
40. New Trend Isn’t a Fad But a Sea Change for Business
41. Mercedes-Benz Pays $1.2 Million for Clean Air Act Violation Also Spends $59 Million for Voluntary Recall
42. The Weather Makers
43. Planes, trains, and the road to ruin
44. World faces hottest year ever, as El Niño combines with global warming
45. Climate Change vs Mother Nature: Scientists reveal that bears have stopped hibernating
46. 2006: Year of Giant Waves
47. Some European birds delay migration due to warmth
48. Sea level rise ‘is accelerating’
49. Sea level rise ‘under-estimated’
50. Greenland is currently losing about 100 billion tonnes of ice a year.
51. Stark warning over climate change
52. Arctic Sea Ice Seen Vanishing in 35 Years
53. CDC: Climate change a health threat
54. Greenhouse Gas Is Ramping Up Fast
55. Disasters losses may top $1 trillion/yr by 2040: UN
56. Europeans Eye Tax On US For Shunning Kyoto Protocol
57. Gulf Stream came to halt for 10 days in 2004
58. Exxon misleads on climate change -UK Royal Society
59. Exxon Reviews Funding In Climate-Change Issue
60. Dutch greenhouse gas emissions fell 2 percent in 2005, now at 1990 levels, agency says
61. Ice bubbles reveal biggest rise in CO2 for 800,000 years
62. How to Tell Whether a Candidate Is Serious About Combating Global Warming
63. Environment in crisis: ‘We are past the point of no return’
64. Climate change information site of the BBC
65. Climate Change and Biodeversity
66. Environment is the main issue of the 21st century
67. Join the Walk the Talk campaign, and show that reducing emissions is possible and cost-effective.
68. What is Dangerous?
69. 2° Celsius: A World of Difference to Life on Earth
70. 2007 Could Be the Year of Biomethane, Says Newsletter
71. Climate Change 101
72. US EPA: Climate Change
73. Recommendations for U.S. Policy
74. Corporate Strategies That Address Climate Change
75. U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions 1990 - 2004
76. Greenhouse Gases and Where They Come From
77. Friends of the Earth: Climate Change
78. Greenpeace: Stop climate change
79. The world’s first greenhouse gas speedometer
80. Diesel Passenger Vehicles and the Environment
81. Personal Vehicles Initiative
82. Most fuel-efficient vehicles
83. Europe’s going green (that’s due to lack of snow)/article.do”>Europe’s going green (that’s due to lack of snow)
84. Wikipedia: Climate Change
85. Offset your footprint and reduce climate change
86. One global warming problem, 6.5 billion solutions
87. It doesn’t cost the Earth to save the planet
88. The Latest Fashion from London: Domestic Wind Turbines
89. Products and Accessories in the Renewable Energy World
90. See how much CO2 your flying puts in the air
91. Scheme to cut ‘carbon footprint’
92. How to reduce your carbon footprint - top 10 tips
93. Photo Gallery: Greenland’s Agricultural Boom
94. BBC Climate Change Experiment: Take part in the biggest climate change experiment ever undertaken.
95. Invest in Sustainability
96. Green Futures
97. Greening the Dragon
98. Bridge for Africa: Building resources to inspire dignity, growth and empowerment
99. The Alternative Energy Store
100. Inhabitat: Green design is good design - good design is green design
101. David Suzuki Foundation