http://www.weconserve.ca/articles Stories on the path to a conserver society Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:17:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There is much to protest at the 2010 G20 summit in Toronto, but I keep thinking we are missing the boat by not having one big street party outside the summit barricades.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Toronto from behind the chain link fence"][/caption] We live in one of the best cities in ... http://www.weconserve.ca/articles/?p=25 We've all seen top ten lists of things you can do to save the environment.  You can usually find them at the end of books about the end of the world or on activist websites. More often than not, they are somebody’s list of favourite actions, not anything that is designed ... http://www.weconserve.ca/articles/?p=17 It was 1973.  The world was experiencing the first oil crisis, and an intrepid group of Canadians from the Science Council of Canada first postulated the idea of "a conserver society" where economic and social development would occur in harmony with nature and natural processes. Had we only listened, back then.  ... http://www.weconserve.ca/articles/?p=1