Environment

LOW FLOW TOILETS GO SLOW, TOO

Jul 15th, 2010 | By Jim Chapman | Category: Environment

A couple of weeks ago on the Jim Chapman NewsHour (weekdays 11 to 12, AM 980) I did a piece about a push by an environmental group that wants to see an across-the-board, province-wide replacement of older, supposedly inefficient toilets with “low-flow” toilets that supposedly reduce the “waste” of water caused by the older models. [...]

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LIONS AND TIGERS AND BEARS, OH MY!

Apr 29th, 2010 | By Jim Chapman | Category: Environment

We owe a big apology to bears. We have taken away their habitat, hunted them for their fur, meat and (I’m not kidding) their penises (said by some to be aphrodisiacs when dried and ground up). We have mocked them with cartoon facsimiles like Yogi and Boo Boo, and created wussy stereotypes like Winnie the Pooh and the Care Bears. They have a lot of good reasons to hate us.

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