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Iz is now friends with Sage Moore, Charles A. Smith and Mr_Grant
November 27
yummi ;D
August 14
the polar caps are EXPANDING???? okay. i stopped reading right there. I don't know where he gets his information from. probably Bush's granny. This dude is outright saying that NASA is wrong. what a douche. also global waring is a global AVERAGE...
May 26
Iz and Beto Zavala are now friends
May 26
Iz is now friends with earthday78 and Jennifer Morrison
May 17
i've used valerian root for very occasional insomnia and it didn't help me at all. just gave me weird vivid dreams. exercise is what's helped me the most. b-vitamins have also helped me.
May 16
i think part of the problem with "going forward" as you say is that most people put way too much faith in new technologies. it's funny that people are suspicious of new chemicals but not new technology. For example, recycling really should be a l...
April 13
I wish I could applaud the tiny ecological footprint of people living in India and Africa, except they have a tiny footprint because they are living in horrible poverty and have to deal with disease and famine and lack of sanitation or nutritious ...
April 8

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About Me:
I'm a reluctant grad student. I study something along the lines of ecotoxicology, but right now I'm just confused. After I graduate I will be a marsupial and trivia genius, and I will spread the gospel about how Futurama is a vastly superior version of the Simpsons, and about the evils of touching your eyes after eating wasabi peanuts.
Favorite Music:
I'm eclectic.
Angry Girl Bands: Robots In Disguise; Dresden Dolls; The Gossip; Yeah Yeah Yeahs; M.I.A.
Angry Boy Noise: Amon Tobin, Orbital; Pi the Movie soundtrack
Singer-Songwriters: Beth Orton; Jose Gonzalez; Stina Nordenstam; Bebel Gilberto; Feist; Emiliana Torrini; Carla Bruni
Crazy-dance: CSS; Fatboy Slim; Mylo; Chemical Brothers; LCD Soundsystem; Daft Punk; Cassius; Calvin Harris
Modern rocky stuff: Clap Your Hands; Franz Ferdinand; Kings of Leon; Broken Social Scene; Metric; The New Pornographers
Melodic Chillout: Zero 7; Morcheeba; Bent; Chungking; The Avalanches; Komeit; Groove Armada; Thievery Corporation
Ambient: Ulrich Schnauss; Kruder & Dorfmeister; Boards of Canada; Cinematic Orchestra; Medeski, Martin & Wood
Happy Dorky music: Beck; Kings of Convenience; Stereolab; Tribalistas; Lemon Jelly; Peter, Bjorn and John
Classic Rock: Led Zeppelin; Supertramp; Pink Floyd; Jefferson Airplane; Janis Joplin
90s awesomeness: Nirvana; REM; Pearl Jam
Electronic: Goldfrapp; Zoot Woman; Telepopmusik; Air; DJ Champion
On a Category of Its Own: Bjork; Gotan Project; Amy Winehouse
and everything in between
Favorite TV Shows:
Weeds; Dexter; Mad Men; Futurama. Also 6 Feet Under was the best thing to ever appear on TV.

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How I got rid of gnats with ecology



Last summer I repotted my plants with new soil I bought from a garden store which will remain nameless, and the soil brought in indoor fungus gnats (nasty gnats!). How do I know it was the soil? Only 2 out of my 5 plants got infected, and they were the ones… Continue

Posted on April 7, 2009 at 6:30pm —

Iz

Green Girls Have Cooties


I have to start this post by saying that the best thing about leaving the mundanejobverse to go back to school and get my master's is not the learning experience but actually the awesome people I've been meeting. And out of these awesome people, it's the girls I'm happiest to meet.… Continue

Posted on February 4, 2009 at 7:30am — 1 Comment

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Some Exciting Canadian Politics stuff

Conservative spokesman Kory Teneycke should look up the word democracy in the Dictionary.

After an exciting new agreement between the Liberals and NDP to try and bring down this joke of a minority government, Teneycke claimed they are "doing this in the most undemocratic fashion."

Excuse me, Mr. Teneycke? Let me give you a definition of democracy from Merriam Webster:

1 a: government by the people ; especially : rule ofContinue

Posted on November 28, 2008 at 1:41pm —

Iz

Tourism is bad, but is no tourism at all even worse?

I recently wrote a big sustainable tourism project, which has absolutely nothing to do with my thesis but for a stupid environmental management course I'm taking. I took this on partly because I was in Madagascar recently and this is what I saw:

I was expecting at least to be around a bunch of nature tourists, you know, like those safari aficionados with SLR lenses as big as their 4WDs. What I saw was actually a bunch of obnoxious French tourists, 70% of whom seemed to be rich baby boome… Continue

Posted on November 27, 2008 at 11:25pm — 3 Comments

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