When I last wrote it was mid-September and I had just bought a 2013 Chevy Volt from Ben R Auto in Steinbach. I now have about 6000 km of experience.
In an interview with David McRaney of the “You Are Not So Smart” podcast, Norwegian psychologist Per Espen Stoknes discussed his book “What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming”.
The news is that the City of Steinbach will be updating its 41-year-old building bylaw. This seems a necessary thing to do, but what should be considered in this update.
A news item last week was that the last male Northern White Rhino has died. Although there are two females of the same species remaining, procreation demands a male as well as a female.
Processed meat is a big part of Canadian culture and an even bigger part of the economy of south east Manitoba.
At the February Prairie Organic conference in Brandon, a number of speakers spoke about the principles of regenerative agriculture.
Archaeologists tell us that agriculture, the nurturing of plants so they can be harvested and consumed, probably began about 10,000 years ago.
Building a country or a region’s economy on the extraction of a resource is fool hardy. A resource extracted is gone! It is no longer there!
We certainly know more about our physical world now than we did 10,000 years ago. It is incredible to see what we now know that we didn’t know even 100 years ago.
The World Economic Forum holds an event at Davos Switzerland every year. This is an invite-only event, and brings together the rich and “successful” people of this world.
