Facebook Events Helping to Expose the Bottled Water Industry
Wanted to add a quick note to say that the drinks & discussion organized around Tony Clarke's book, Inside the Bottle: Exposing the Bottled Water Industry, was quite good.
Environment
Google Supporting Non-Profits and Taking Environmental Initiatives
I've modified this article as Google has removed a few of it's pages and so I've pointed the links to the Way Back Machine. Not sure where Google's Climate Change, Public Health and Economic Development programs are now.
Hopefully Google is trying to be good rather than just trying to get good press, however there are some interesting initiatives that Google is starting to take. They have fairly recently:
Tools for Environment Campaigns in Canada
The following sites are interesting campaign sites that provide interesting campaign sites partly because the tools that they chose to use. Most are using open source tools for the base of their work. Some just because they have a interactive email/fax/petition interface.
Canadian Pugwash on YouTube
Back in 1990-1991 I was very active in the Canadian Student Pugwash and participated in a number of fascinating conferences, largely on environmental issues. I was fortunate to participate in a number of conferences leading up to the United Nations Conference for Environment and Development (UNCED). In that time there wasn't much contact with senior Pugwash members (Although Digby Mclaren may have been a member).
