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		<title>Re: Hume:Condo&#8217;s future needs mature debate</title>
		<link>http://energyblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/re-humecondos-future-needs-mature-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.yourhome.ca/homes/columnsblogs/article/742003&#8211;hume-condo-s-future-needs-mature-debate
Hume: Condo&#8217;s future needs mature debate
Let me try to shape how such a debate would work from my perspective,
brain dump though it may be.  It might be useful, maybe not.  I&#8217;ll try
not to ramble too much  
First off, what kind of debate?  Not online when thestar doesn&#8217;t have
comments turned on, or with character limits [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=energyblog.wordpress.com&blog=86168&post=582&subd=energyblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oakville Power plant pollution?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear MOE,
Unfortunately not two words mentioned in your email reply helped
answer my questions.  I&#8217;ve rewritten them below in hopes of a clearer
answer.  As well, I included the OPA representative mentioned in your
post to this email in hopes of a broader opportunity for answers and
perspectives.
Basically in a nutshell consider :
Item:  What are the local or Ontario [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=energyblog.wordpress.com&blog=86168&post=519&subd=energyblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting modified cheese at Metro</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sent a nice email to Metro over their decision to cut the Equality brand.  I for one am not in favour of every food being modified when I clearly had a choice.  Now that choice is gone.  Feel free to ask Metro why yourself here: http://www.metro.ca/on/utilities/contact.en.html
Hello Metro,
I was wondering what happened to the Equality brand [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=energyblog.wordpress.com&blog=86168&post=517&subd=energyblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Re: &#8216;Car-free&#8217; condo : Toronto Star Sept 16th 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Partial blog thread from TheStar article &#8221; &#8216;Car-free&#8217; condo: 42 storeys, no parking&#8221; located here: http://www.yourhome.ca/homes/newsfeatures/article/696394
Here&#8217;s a current outrage to relentless condo development.    The central theme is that we are building condos at any cost and after Peak Oil condos will be useless anyway.  Poor little building, probably the last history on University Ave [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=energyblog.wordpress.com&blog=86168&post=496&subd=energyblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Real Condo Critic: 900 Mt. Pleasant Rd.</title>
		<link>http://energyblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/real-condo-critic-900-mt-pleasant-rd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does &#8220;&#8221;"have done their best to bring new levels of density&#8221;"&#8221; mean?
http://www.thestar.com/comment/columnists/article/612099
The energy-density persistance in this building has high density versus a low availability of alt-energy. Density 100% of the time just for the sake of it fails understanding and is slightly insane. No trees for zero shade, noise, and pollution control. No stores [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=energyblog.wordpress.com&blog=86168&post=364&subd=energyblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Re: Canada, U.S. share climate goals, Prentice says :: Toronto Star :: March 3rd, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m no fan of tar sands, but there is a technology in Alberta that is being ignored that would mitigate much of the pollution.  Here&#8217;s my letter to the star editor;
To: mpotter@thestar.ca, Letters to the Editor 
Dear Editor,
The media are ignoring a different method of oilsands development and
I would encourage a discussion with Petrobank.
This alternative [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=energyblog.wordpress.com&blog=86168&post=297&subd=energyblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Re: Green bin waste trucked to N.Y. :: Toronto Star : March 1st, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/594806
Hi Mr. Rae,  (Ward 27 City of Toronto Councillor)
I was startled to read in the Star today that we&#8217;re trucking our excess composting waste to the USA for incineration, since the Green Bin program is too successful.
How to deal with success?  It&#8217;s clear that this is provincial and not just Toronto, but nonetheless there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=energyblog.wordpress.com&blog=86168&post=293&subd=energyblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Re: Recession gives Ignatieff a free ride : Toronto Star :: February 15th 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ignatieff&#8217;s Liberal&#8217;s moves on the economy would be no better, because the reality is to let the auto industry go into bankruptcy.  That&#8217;s what bankruptcy is for.
In the aftermath of that, we have then the focus to retool ourselves into green tech using all those plants and workers for things we need.  Reality is sometimes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=energyblog.wordpress.com&blog=86168&post=290&subd=energyblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Re: Take Peak Oil Seriously &#8211; it&#8217;ll be here much sooner than you think : Toronto Star :: February 15th 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently they also ran this article as well.  I&#8217;ll praise it but also offer where the Star can engage further.
To: Lettertoed@thestar.ca, ckelly@thestar.ca
Re: Take Peak Oil Seriously &#8211; it&#8217;ll be here much sooner than you think
Dear Editor and C.Kelly,
Thank you for posting this article, &#8220;Take Peak Oil Seriously&#8221; as it
quoted actual scientists who are studying the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=energyblog.wordpress.com&blog=86168&post=288&subd=energyblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Re: Meet the doomsayers of our time :: Toronto Star : February 15th 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article on Peak Oil in the Star decidedly sensationalist and not informative.  So I wrote a letter to the editor and author.
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/587952
To: lettertoed@thestar.ca , ckelly@thestar.ca
Re: Meet the doomsayers of our time  February 15th 2009
Dear Editor and C.Kelly;
I&#8217;ve been reading about Peak Oil and blogging on the topic to the
Toronto Star now for about 3 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=energyblog.wordpress.com&blog=86168&post=281&subd=energyblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Re: Stimulus plan falls a few shades short of &#8216;green,&#8217; critics say :: Toronto Star, January 28th 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government this week introduced its budget and environmental plan.  I&#8217;ll rewrite a paragraph from Environment Minister Jim Prentice&#8217;s speech on investment in green energy to highlight where I differ, then I&#8217;ll discuss another amazing alternative called Thermal in more depth.   No, I don&#8217;t know why is this completely avoided by the media!  Media [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=energyblog.wordpress.com&blog=86168&post=239&subd=energyblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Re: Ignatieff touts Alberta tar sands :: Toronto Star : January 22nd, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I argue that Ignateif has missed the opportunity of Canadian change by saying that &#8220;&#8221;The stupidest thing you can do (is) to run against an industry that is providing employment for hundreds of thousands of Canadians, and not just in Alberta, but right across the country&#8221;"
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/575269
It would seem then following his logic that the argument [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=energyblog.wordpress.com&blog=86168&post=215&subd=energyblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Re: Ontario, U.S. firm team up on electric car project :: Toronto Star : Jan 15th 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Letter to the Editor:
Please tell me what happened to the Star backbone?  This one was more likely titled &#8220;Ontario doesn&#8217;t team up with own electric car firm, US firm used instead&#8221;.
ZENN is based in Toronto, manufactured in Quebec, sells in BC USA etc, and recharges with a regular extension cord.  By all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=energyblog.wordpress.com&blog=86168&post=211&subd=energyblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Re: Like it or not, condos will keep going up :: Toronto Star Dec 20th, 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(email to author Christopher Hume)
Hi Mr Hume,
While it&#8217;s true that condos will keep going up, they do so for entirely the wrong reasons that has nothing to do with reality.  This headline and article points to an egregious waste of energy and the fate of Baby Boomers to stick us with their narcissism and never [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=energyblog.wordpress.com&blog=86168&post=192&subd=energyblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Re: Looking at the recession as an opportunity :: Toronto Star Dec 14th 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/553547
(S)carborough will have to be bulldozed into a grid system, or else it will never get real transit.  Buses can&#8217;t travel around cul-de-sacs nor should they (what a waste of time)
Ban suburban development as it currently stands.  Its car basis is over, it has to be pedestrian friendly and mixed residential/business usage in an under [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=energyblog.wordpress.com&blog=86168&post=189&subd=energyblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Re: San Fran unveils electric car station plan :: Toronto Star Nov 20th 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In current headlines in two countries we have mutterings of bailout for the auto industry.  I&#8217;m not in power I&#8217;m not a politician but when America leads the opportunities are there.  I&#8217;m not talking about bailing out a failed industry but using this crisis as a means to start up the new economy.  If that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=energyblog.wordpress.com&blog=86168&post=145&subd=energyblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Re: Harper promises to cut tax on diesel :: Toronto Star :: Sept 9th 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the election, so I better put a comment down while it&#8217;s on my mind&#8230;
Harper promised today a 2-4 cent tax cut on diesel fuel over four years, touting it as some kind of miricle tax cut to save truckers and industry.
Where to start&#8230; okay first off diesel fuel has increassed by more than 2-4 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=energyblog.wordpress.com&blog=86168&post=128&subd=energyblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Post To Premier; allow electric cars</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Premier,
As noted from the Toronto Star July 28th &#8220;Province studying electric cars&#8221;, the Transportation Minister Jim Bradley was quoted that &#8220;&#8221;"&#8230;.The main concern is safety features, said Bradley: Low-speed electric vehicles meet only a handful of the 40 safety standards required by Transport Canada, and Ontario wants to determine exactly what safety features may [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=energyblog.wordpress.com&blog=86168&post=126&subd=energyblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Re: McGinty Rethinking Ethanol :: Toronto Star July 9th 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where are our electric cars??
Ontario and Quebec build electric cars and sell them to the USA but they&#8217;re not allowed on our roads!? Ontario needs to pass Low Speed Vechicle (LSV) legislation like they did in BC to allow electric cars. When your only option is gas, we can see that this isn&#8217;t going to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=energyblog.wordpress.com&blog=86168&post=125&subd=energyblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Re: Let&#8217;s not alienate drivers :: Toronto Star April 15th 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to your article, it turns out we need to start alienating
drivers as a design plan, so that we are helping everyone understand
our changing energy needs.
Drivers outside the downtown core are preferred over buses on our
roads everyday.  Changing these attitudes in city planning there,
which has the most growth, would also do much to improve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=energyblog.wordpress.com&blog=86168&post=122&subd=energyblog&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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