Why dont you tell someone to Flick Off!

Ever wondered what the current status of electricity in Ontario is right now? Its common knowledge that electricity is in short supply and conservation and managing demand are key to ensuring a reliable and inexpensive supply of electricity. But, to the public where, when, how, and why are questions that someone needs direct answers to, including me, in real time.

Although I can check on the IESO’s website to see what the projected electricity status is, this takes time and many people don’t have the time to check this website 2-5 times a day. Organizing this confusing mess is the Flick Off project that emails or text messages members who sign up with fun and unique messages on how and when to conserve electricity. Sign up and learn about energy and conservation while gaining information on the status of the electricity industry. Electricity prices rose to $2 per KWH this summer in Ontario while you pay 5 cents, the difference is covered by the tax payer.

Netmetering is coming to Ontario, so you might be paying the real market price soon. I’ve already told eveyone I know to Flick Off!

Green Drinks!!

Green Drinks is a phenomenom that has been sweeping the world organizing and connecting human capital from the environmental field using age old organization tactics, networking and beer! Green Drinks brings together lively mixtures of people from NGOs, academia, government and business, fostering information sharing and networking under the guise of protecing the environment. Green Drinks is open to everyone becoming an organic, self organized network. Chapters exist across Canada and in: UK, USA, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Netherlands, Japan, Australia, Chile and Puerto Rica.

Gifts of love

Coming up on Christmas two sons have given their mother the gift of life………… in the form of a lung. Their mother, Brenda Kinnear, 51, has pulmonary fibrosis, a disease that destroys the lung’s ability to transfer oxygen into the bloodstream. Her two sons decided to each donate 1/2 a lung to their mother in a risky operation that puts both the donor and the recipiant at risk. The surgury will relieve much of the stress Brenda Kinnear faces on a daily basis since patients with lung diseases are at increased risks during cold season. If the sugury is sucessfull, Brenda and her sons will enjoy many more long years together.

The Next Kyoto Protocol

This week in Montreal the United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held. Is this a good place?The conference is a meeting of all the countries that ratified the Kyoto Protocol to see what the next Protocol should look like. The results of this conference are imperative to the planet’s future, some people are interested in a looser set of requirements, and others want a different set of measurements to set targets.

Evidence that climate change is very dangerous to humanity is now being recognized and hopefully this will be acknowledged on an official and international level in Montreal this week.

Anti-Cancer Compound Found in Beer

Drinking beer may prevent some cancers. A micronutrient found only in hops (the main ingredient to making beer) have properties that make it a combatant of cancers.

And currently many “scientists in programs around the world are also beginning to look at the value of these hops flavonoids for everything from preventing prostate or colon cancer to hormone replacement therapy for women.”

Thanks, Digg.com!