Today marks World Press Freedom Day, and nearly a year since journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed.
“This wasn’t errant gunfire – this was deliberate targeting” by Israeli forces, reporter @sharifkouddous tells me, and forms “part of a pattern of impunity.”
Reminder that every time you and another person vehemently argue on-line, based on a post that inflamed your emotions, somebody plotted the outcome and is making money from it.
I had a great time in Waterloo region this week visiting @ConestogaC ’s Bloom Restaurant where students learn and research ways to reduce environmental impact and become a net zero restaurant.
This is from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977.
Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.
[full interview: https://t.co/Y2mY8JKVsf]
Bottled water cost is astounding when you think of how much you’re paying for production and distribution compared to the water itself. It’s even more shocking when you consider the detrimental effects it has on the environment
[source, read more: https://t.co/yWxaUkHn2W]
What is at stake? Everything. We are at the #climate crossroads: highway to hell or a livable future? We simply can’t pave over nature and ramp up fossil fuels if we want a livable future. #onpoli https://t.co/Cm1ZAIT1Lh
Today is the spring equinox, but what actually is an equinox?
It's one of only two times in the year when day and night are (almost) exactly equal all over the world...