On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Rodgers and Hammerstein weren't Canadian, and so what?

This signature tune from "South Pacific" speaks of dangers we know too well.

This is interesting...

https://www.ivey.uwo.ca/sustainability/news/2023/09/the-unexpected-reason-farmers-are-planting-crops-under-solar-panels/

Just got back in the house, finished supper, and this is on the radio:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/seduced-by-story-the-dangers-of-narrative-1.6770457

If you live in Ottawa, and you have a yard that you want to add foliage to:

https://twitter.com/EcologyOttawa/status/1573084950076821504

My tax paperwork is now in the mail, en route to Sudbury for processing. We'll see soon enough if my calculations are good enough. There's always something I've misunderstood, sometimes corrected to my benefit, sometimes not so much, every year. If I end up repaying something again - it's happened on occasion - I find it harder than many to complain about that, especially after these last two years of Pandemic-era supports.

I do want and will the social safety net to evolve to the better for us all, of course. UBI, at a reasonable monthly level, indexed to inflation...that would be good, I'm convinced.

Housing supports for all, housing for all, that would be good also.

Finally rolling pharma, eye care, dental care, mental health care into the overall medicare system, ditto.

We have to argue for it. Until we win.

More on other topics anon.

No one is selling leaded gasoline/petrol for cars anywhere on Earth now. At least, not legally that we know of. Algeria was the last "recognized" country whose gas stations were still selling the stuff, and that finally stopped this year.

We'll still be recovering from the error of having used the stuff for generations, but with each country and company that got out of that business, the resulting damages have been less severe over time.

Switching the world's transportation fleets over to zero-emissions vehicles is a continuing project, of course.

This could be both useful and helpful.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/16/good-vibrations-bladeless-turbines-could-bring-wind-power-to-your-home

I was hoping for a response along these lines, but am pleasantly surprised at the speed of it.

Details in the Twitter thread starting here:

https://twitter.com/ruperto1023/status/1334184780192223232

Listening to this one at the moment:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/our-futurecestors-deserve-a-voice-in-today-s-decisions-says-author-1.5710902

So, the announcement of the winners is done.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/2020pulitzer-prizes-1.5555616

https://www.pulitzer.org/news/announcement-2020-pulitzer-prize-winners

Reactions?

(Interesting historical sidebar: the Pulitzers' second century, we hope, has begun just as their first did in 1917...right in the midst of a pandemic.)