As I am of Chinese descent, the whole issue of shark fin was completely off my radar until very recently.  As a kid, despite having to hang around hordes of boring adults at traditional Chinese banquets, I would brave my surroundings for the delicious multi-course meal that usually includes favorites like crab and lobster, crispy [...]

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You don’t have to find a job cleaning the ocean, ripping dolphins out of fishing nets with your bare hands or throwing barrels of toxic waste into space to make a difference through your occupation.  In fact, a simple a change as changing how you work makes a world of difference.  Depending on what you [...]

Addicted to Plastic
I recently watched this documentary and despite what the title makes you think, it isn’t about nosejobs or facelifts.  It’s about the mass amount of plastic that our society manufactures and quickly disposes of and how it is negatively affecting the way we live and the planet we live on.
Of course, it doesn’t [...]

We’ve been hearing about the death of print media for years.  Magazines and newspapers are finding it more and more difficult to survive in a mostly electronic world and while sales in books has remained largely the same (although some studies have shown steady growth for many retailers but that could be attributed to Barnes [...]

Apparently there’s a new study on creating biofuel from watermelons that has the internet buzzing about the possibility of another clean burning alternative to petrol.  The basic idea is that there are many watermelons left on the vines going to waste due to the fact that they have minor exterior damage that make them a [...]

On a recent episode of the popular internet series Diggnation, they mentioned a teenager in Ontario decomposing a plastic bag over a period of three months.  If you’re not sure why this is a breakthrough, plastic bags regularly take up to a thousand years to break down.
Daniel Burd, a 16-year old student at Waterloo Collegiate [...]

It’s a shame that one small group of idiots ruin it for so many other people.  If you don’t know what I’m talking about, Critical Mass is basically an organized group bike ride to encourage people to get out of their cars and ride their bike instead.  They do so by clogging up the city’s [...]