The environmental movement has been gaining steam for some years now, forcing responsible citizens to re-examine all aspects of their lives, but now, truly responsible citizens must also re-examine their behaviour in death as well.

The Natural Burial Co-operative is a Guelph based organization promoting a greener afterlife. Actually, your afterlife is still your own should you choose to have one, the Natural Burial Co-operative simply asks that you dispose of your mortal shell more responsibly.

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The ongoing saga over the sale of raw milk added another chapter last week. Dundas, Ont. farmer and raw milk champion, Michael will be back in court on a yet-to-be-determined date to defend his case against the Ontario Government.

Schmidt was acquitted last month of 19 charges relating to the sale of his unpasteurized milk, but the Ontario government has launched an appeal. They seem unrepentant in their quest to squash raw milk, which seems wholly ludicrous to me. I understand, and fully accept the claims that there are real health risks involved in its consumption, but so what? There are serious health risks associated with drinking alcohol and eating raw fish as well. Furthermore, in recent years, mass produced packaged meats seem to be a much more dangerous source of food born bacteria and Maple Leaf foods seems to have gotten through that debacle mostly unscathed.

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I don’t want to alarm anyone, but “our everyday experience might itself be a holographic projection of physical processes that take place on a distant, 2D surface.”

Wait … what?!

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When Abhishek Vaidyanathan’s family moved from Mississauga to Toronto, it meant switching schools. For the 17-year-old, the idea of starting over in a new environment was less than thrilling. To make matters worse, his new school was all boys.

“I didn’t know what to expect,” he said. “But I can tell you I was not happy about it.”

Over time, as Vaidyanathan negotiated the corridors of Upper Canada College (UCC), he began to reconsider the move. Without the pressure of impressing female students, he was left to explore activities he would scoff at if it were a co-ed school.

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Does it mean anything if an onion ring is more poplular than a Prime Minister, or if a pickle has more fans than Nickelback ?

This recent rise in lazy-man activism has been much criticized, for good reason. Really, what does it matter if an onion ring has more facebook votes than Stephen Harper. Does that mean we should move our federal elections to facebook? Is that how we engage people? Would the outcome be a country presided over by pub fare?

Facebook and other social networking services may create an environment for meandering, responsibility-free complaining, but when put to proper use they can be valuable resources to activists. They’re tools for communication that galvanize and mobilize enormous groups of people at once and while the groups mentioned above may only prove that a large chunk of the population has the munchies, the tool itself has promise.

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When Apple finally revealed the iPad to the world a few weeks ago, the amount of hype and speculation surrounding it made it nearly impossible to appreciate.

Almost instantly, the tech industry was criticizing the uselessness of such a device. Steve Jobs had barely left the stage when “5 worst things about the iPad” lists started popping up all over the place. Left and right, the question most being asked is “why?”

But why is irrelevant. Technology creates it’s own demand. Who needed a smart phone before they existed? Moreover, who needed the internet? I have no doubt the iPad will become a necessary household device, but that need and usefulness doesn’t come on launch day. Before a device or new technology can stake that kind of claim it needs to get into people’s hands. It needs to be used, before it can be useful.

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When the Super Bowl kicks off tonight the circus will be in full swing.

As millions of fans tune in to the ostentatious half-time show and the bloated advertisements, one commercial will be notably missing.

ManCrunch.com is a dating site for men looking for long-term love. The site, owned by Avid Life Media (also responsible for the cheater-friendlyAshleyMadison.com), ponied up the $2.5 million price tag for a 30-second spot during the event. They were ultimately denied access to the high demand advertising space. CBS’s official response was:

“After reviewing the ad – which is entirely commercial in nature – our Standards and Practices department decided not to accept this particular spot. As always, we are open to working with the client on alternative submissions.”

But ManCrunch.com spokesperson Dominic Friesen claimed, on Larry King Live, that CBS is not returning their phone calls.

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