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Tag: Policy

University of Regina graduates envision global governance that works

May 22, 2018January 29, 2019 Ben Harack Leave a comment

Graduates from the University of Regina have envisioned a practical path forward for global governance. Hailing from across Saskatchewan, they banded together in 2017 in the hopes that fresh eyes and hard work could improve the state of world politics.

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Regina’s wastewater plant – Is a P3 the right answer?

September 25, 2013September 25, 2013 Robert Bailey 2 Comments

So, the big vote is tomorrow. Regina residents have been back and forth with regards to the P3 debate, but there still seems to be a lot of undecided voters and confusion regarding the proposed project. Still haven’t decided? Want the lowdown? I’m going to do my best to explain.The first thing that’s required when […]

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Response to Design Regina Draft Documents

April 26, 2013April 26, 2013 Ben Harack 1 Comment

Preface This document is a response to the draft documents posted as part of the Design Regina process. The authors of this response are also the primary authors of Transforming Regina: Planning for 2040 and beyond, which achieved a place in the finals of the Regina Morph My City competition. Readers interested in a detailed […]

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Moving Planet Montreal

October 1, 2011February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 3 Comments

Moving Planet Montreal was a celebration of the transition away from fossil fuels in our society. The event was a green kilometer drive and a grand picnic, symbolizing the central role of transportation and food in sustainability.

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Envisioning a Green Life: 10 ways you can make a difference

September 30, 2011July 25, 2013 Ben Harack 2 Comments

Simple, practical advice on how to live a green life. Based on years of research and thought on the matter by the Vision of Earth team.

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Story Of Afghanistan That Everyone Should Know

August 24, 2011February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 3 Comments

The US sent huge sums of money to support freedom fighters in Afghanistan to fight the Soviet Union during the 1980’s.

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How healthy is Canada’s political market?

August 14, 2011February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 2 Comments

Looking at Canadian politics as a market, it is clear that left-leaning voters in Canada have a lot more choices at the ballot box than do their conservative counterparts. The melding of fiscal and social conservatism has left conservative voters with only one real option during elections. We might summarize this as a ‘Monopoly on conservatism in Canada’.

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Opportunities and perils of natural gas usage on the road to renewables

August 10, 2011February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 2 Comments

Our increasing reliance on natural gas brings with it both opportunities and dangers during the shift towards renewable energy. This issue deals with some major issues regarding natural gas deployment in industry, power generation, food production, and heating.

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Critique of Center for Freedom and Prosperity’s video featuring Dan Mitchell

May 29, 2011April 18, 2019 Ben Harack Leave a comment

This piece is a critique of a video featuring Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute created by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity. Our conclusion is that this video utterly fails to demonstrate the truth of its claims, and instead relies on psychological manipulation to try to ‘win’ the argument in the minds of viewers

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John Klein: Social involvement and sustainability in Regina, Saskatchewan, and Canada

May 25, 2011February 23, 2016 Ben Harack Leave a comment

John Klein is a notable blogger and community activist in Regina, Saskatchewan. Here he answers our philosophical and practical questions about the most important issues facing our society today, and what each of us can do about them.

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Politics in the 11th hour: The Canadian Cons

May 1, 2011May 27, 2012 Ben Harack Leave a comment

The Conservative Party has deliberately lied to the Canadian populace about several of the major issues that they have focused on during this election season. The intent of this piece is to describe why we have very good reason to believe this.

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Capitalism’s Labour Transitions – An Argument for Social Welfare

March 7, 2011April 18, 2019 Ben Harack 2 Comments

Capitalist labour transitions are a heavy burden on the working class and society in general, but they are also one of the cornerstones of progress. We can solve this problem in an economically practical as well as morally and socially desirable through the creation of a strong social welfare system.

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A renewed look at 2010, a sustainable vision for 2011

February 16, 2011February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 3 Comments

Here we review major renewable energy topics from 2010 and then turn towards analyzing energy issues for 2011 and beyond.

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Canada’s Bill C-32: Copyright that can stifle creativity

January 24, 2011January 24, 2011 Ben Harack 1 Comment

The protections and advancements that Bill C-32 claims to make with regards to openness of media usage are all nullified by the digital lock sections of the bill. A digital lock takes away all of the important rights, and thus negates the flexibility of media usage.

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Curtis Dorosh: Green living, building, and volunteering

December 17, 2010February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 1 Comment

How to live green? Build green buildings? Put our efforts towards a better future? Curtis Dorosh has spent much of his life trying to answer these questions. Collected here are some of his answers.

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The Vision of Earth Team in the cold month of January 2010

Vision of Earth in social media

December 8, 2010December 8, 2010 Ben Harack Leave a comment

At Vision of Earth, we have been innovating our social media presence. Here we discuss how you can interact with us through Facebook, Twitter, RSS, email, Digg, Reddit, and our newsletter.

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Demand side management to help build a renewable power grid

December 8, 2010June 10, 2016 Ben Harack 2 Comments

Demand side management helps make our power grid more cost-effective and aids in the transition towards renewable energy. It can also be considered as a very green policy on its own, as it reduces the amount of power we need to produce, and thus our impact on the environment.

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How trolls and extremists are damaging our public discourse

December 5, 2010June 1, 2017 Ben Harack 3 Comments

Trolls and extremists contaminate our public discourse with falsehoods, logical fallacies, irrational argument, poisoning the well, false expertise, and the creation of de-facto knowledge. Individuals must learn to resist the onslaught of ideas driven by these sections of society.

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Power system performance metrics

November 26, 2010July 23, 2019 Ben Harack 3 Comments

Everything has its price. Every form of power production has costs in dollars, time, land, materials, pollutants, greenhouse gas emissions, and human deaths. We look at the most important factors for analyzing the feasibility of a proposed power project. Considering only some of these factors will lead to an incomplete picture of power system costs.

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Feed-in tariffs: A fitting policy for renewable energy

November 16, 2010February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 5 Comments

Here we talk about what a feed in tariff is and how it works. We also conduct an overview of how effective feed in tariffs have been at stimulating the renewable energy industry around the world.

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