1996-1997 Environmental Articles (while traveling in various parts of North America, including Cuba)

By Tooker Gomberg and Angela Bischoff, Montreal, Canada. An eco critique and proposal for the federal budget. “We will do whatever we can to create jobs” I heard federal Finance Minister Paul Martin say the […]

CHRETIEN SENT THE WRONG MINISTER TO CUBA An Open Letter to the Prime Minister by Tooker Gomberg and Angela Bischoff Cuba’s environmental revolution gets top grades. Dear Prime Minister Chrétien: While in Havana a few […]

By Tooker Gomberg and Angela Bischoff, Cuba. Cuba’s social and economic revolutions are impressive. Travelling, at its best, can shatter prejudices. For example, in North America it is widely believed that in order to live […]

By Tooker Gomberg, Cuba. Bicycle touring through Cuba’s countryside. On the first night of our bicycle trip to Cuba, the forbidden island, we were awakened by a powerful thunderstorm. As water poured down in sheets […]

By Tooker Gomberg, Montreal, Canada. Calming traffic liberates people. Here’s a New Year’s Quiz: If the police asked you and your neighbours what your biggest policing concern was, what would the answer be? As a […]

By Tooker Gomberg, Montreal, Canada. Winter Solstice on the Internet. My last column caused a bit of a stir. Shortly after posting it I received an email accusing me of “hemisphereism”. “You have made a […]

By Tooker Gomberg, Montreal, Canada. Let volleyball be a lesson in peace. Rejoice! This Sunday, darkness will slowly give way to light. Saturday, the winter solstice, is the shortest day of the year, and a […]

By Tooker Gomberg, Montreal, Canada. Spacecraft pose catastrophic nuclear threat. Something fell from the sky Sunday night, and it wasn’t a lucky star. News stories reported how the Mars space probe “harmlessly” crashed back to […]

By Tooker Gomberg, Montreal, Canada. Montreal’s great growing pains. To survive in Montreal one must learn a special dance. The dance of the jaywalker. Apparently the word doesn’t exist in French. If you’re here, and […]

By Tooker Gomberg, Montreal Canada. The World Conservation Union eats Caribou while species disappear. Bring together 2500 environmentalists and what do they talk about? Aliens. What do they distribute? Photos of John Bobbitt’s severed penis. […]