Rethinking Lifestyle

The Steinbach Landfill is a heartbreaking sight. If you haven’t been recently, you should go take a look.

There was a time when the earth was “empty”. This was a time when the oceans and lakes were full of fish and much land was under-utilized.

Looking back a few years you will recall that farmers used to cut their grain with a swather and leave it to dry in windrows across the field.

We are told that at the dawn of agriculture, which is believed to have occurred around 8000 B.C., there were approximately 5 million people on this earth.

Recently there was an item on CBC radio that set my little grey cells working, and this was that the population of Newfoundland was going down.

There is an additive, little known by most people, that can reduce your car’s fuel consumption by 20% or more.

Malcolm Gladwell has written a number of best-selling books like Outliers and Blink but the one I wish to focus on is called The Tipping Point.

You can’t turn on the news these days without being inundated with stories of hurricane damage. Two weeks ago it was Harvey, and the damage was from flooding, more than it was from strong winds. Last week the news was about Irma.

As I wrote this, we were experiencing a massive thunderstorm, part of a system moving through the Province from north west to north east.

On our trip from La Broquerie to Ottawa, my wife and I have had the opportunity to stop and visit in plenty of small towns.