Seven Billion People: Crunching the Numbers

Believe it or not, you’re wrong if you say that Earth has six billion people. It’s about time you round up. The CIA has estimated that the population of the world will be 6,928,198,253 this coming July. Try reading that out loud, it’s quite shocking.  It’s just an issue that no one really pays attention…

Photo of the Day: Waterton, Alberta

This is a shot I took in Waterton, AB a couple Springs ago.  It is taken at the top of the “Bear’s Hump Hike.”  If you are ever in Waterton, I really recommend this hike simply for the amazing views it provides at the top.  You can also capture a stunning shot of the entire town as…

Climate Change Connections

I don’t know about you guys, but ever since I learned about Climate Change and Global Warming, I have been hyper aware of climate disasters and have wondered, is it all connected? To me it seems very odd that some of the world’s deadliest and extreme disasters have all happened in the last five years,…

May!

For many of us, May marks the beginning of Spring! However, as the snow clears and green is finally visible in Calgary, May is also significant – it marks the revival of many environmental youth initiatives. Below are some of the projects that the Sir Winston Churchill Earth Club is involved in. There are many new…

St. Patrick’s Day Facts!

With St. Patty’s day coming up (Thursday if you guys have forgotten ;D), why not entertain you with some statistics and random St. Patrick Day-related tidbits?! Lab 42 surveyed 405 social networkers and represented the data in a very creative way! Google sneaks out street view leprechaun for St. Paddy’s Day. Doodles on search engines…

March Recall: Irish Luck

Did you wear green? The celebration of St. Patrick’s Day has spread from Ireland to many parts of the world, but who is this Saint Patrick that this day is celebrating? Surprisingly he is not Irish at all but he was born in Roman Britain. Most would know him as the man who drove out…