Greg Fowler's blog

On Monday, I had the pleasure of listening to the delegation of a group of mums from the White Oaks area, at the Environment and Transportation Committee meeting. And as a publicly outspoken pedestrian advocate, I was proud of them.

Not so proud of our local politicians.  read more »

This is a public service announcement.  read more »

Are you a local musician or a small musical group? Would you like the opportunity to appear publicly in a downtown location?

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Wait to check this out this site until you're really bored. It's amusing, but only until the audio starts to drive you bonkers.

Afterwards, you may find the silence on this site to be a welcome change. And instead of destroying things, you can let your creative self express itself.

I'm mostly pretty much of a skeptic when it comes to things like Earth Hour and Earth Day. One-off events like these let people pretend that they're responsible, for minimum effort. But there's an initiative that I've come across related to this year's Earth Day that I think is kind of cool, and it attempts to raise the public's awareness and goad politicians into doing more without being self-indulgent.  read more »

Willl it take you as long to figure this out as it did me? Quite enjoyable once you get the hang of it.

http://snurl.com/fowgre-aqua [aqua-scape_jp]

Let’s pick this story up as I leave the Chapters book store on Wellington Road S. I head over to the transit shelter to wait for the Wellington northbound and arrive there at 9:45 p.m.

There’s a bench in this shelter, which isn’t often the case, but it’s too cold to sit on. Standing wasn’t too much of a problem for the first 20 minutes, but then it started to rapidly take it’s toll on my bum knee. And I’d had to start shuffling to stay warm by this time, which didn’t help matters a lot.  read more »

The Chelsea Green/Glen Cairn area is home to social housing, new immigrants, etc. and too much of a problem of youth who don't have any resources to help keep them from making unhealthy life choices. Our community association is interested in the possibility of providing at least a couple of programs that might be of interest to them. The first one would provide the opportunity for them to learn how to cannibalize old, donated computers for workable parts and build working computers from that material, install/run Linux (because it's FREE), etc.  read more »

Notwithstanding the considerable respect that I have for Jay Stanford, I was seriously disappointed by what he had to say to ETC this week with respect to plastic bags and other materials that are being excluded. [audio http://www.myotherdrive.com/file/829.215320.18032008.99750.0067fi/20080317002.mp3]

Are you a London, Ontario blogger? podcaster? Ever want to learn how?

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