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 [...]

I wrote an article for citruspie  last october on the subject of the Canadian government promoting asbestos and selling it to chinese drywall companies… you can see my article  by going to this link.  http://citruspie.com/uncategorized/exporting-asbestos-good-business-for-canada/. I wrote that the Canadian government has spent millions of dollars to help promote the sale of asbestos to china. Maybe that [...]

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 [...]

I literally thought I landed on the moon when I flew into Leh, Northern India. Ladakh is situated at a height of 3505 meters and is towards the eastern parts of Jammu and Kashmir.  Ladakh is a cold desert laying in the rain shadow of the Great Himalayas and other smaller ranges. Little rain and snow reaches [...]

After spending 3 weeks at the Aurovalley Ashram I decided to head to the area of India where the Dalai Lama resides. I was not aware if he would be at his home as he does alot of traveling promoting the Tibetan cause. The area was beautiful. Dharamsala has been connected with Hinduism and Buddhism [...]

I decided to make a stop enroute to Dharamsala. Since there was not a train that went from Rishikesh to Dharamsala I went by car hire, which is very common in India. It took 10 hours to get to my destination, Pragpur. It is India’s first designated official Heritage Village. Set in the hymalian hills, [...]

The weather is beginning to get unbearably hot as we delve deeper into the summer months of the year.  Actually, it was getting too hot for me weeks ago despite the fact that I live in a relatively neutral climate here in Vancouver.  The high 20s begin to turn my place a greenhouse.  Some might [...]

I know it has probably been awhile since many of you have been asked this particular question as paper bags have been more or less phased out by many major supermarkets as well as most small corner grocery and produce stores but I was asked the other day while I was out shopping at one [...]

I did some research before I left home on what different ashrams provided. There are many and some provide only a safe, low cost hostel environment while other provide a place for deep reflection. I decided on Aurovalley because of the 2 main evolutionary founders; Sri Aurobindo and “The Mother”.  They wrote countless books on how [...]