Eco Bio was the tongue and cheek name that my old boss in the Crop Science department thought would be a good name for a quasi-organic food label. Greenwashy and says it all. Great stuff.

I was reminded of this at the yearly envirosci conference on campus yesterday.  This years topic was "environmental economics" with the afternoon session being "alternatives to capitalism".  Cue cartoon eyeballs falling out of my head. Needless to say, it was fairly disappointing. The kids have lost any hint of the fight the man verve that once existed.  Here is a quote from the 1969 yearbook from U of G, which I fished out of the garbage one day. (Having it in my posession is considered "theft" by the way):

"The XXXII CUS congress, held this year at Guelph, attacked the socialising effect of the modern North American education system, the corporate control of universities and the basic organisation of society itself. Delegates strongly criticised the authoritarianism and repression of Canadian society and advocated a democratic, non-exploitative alternative."

Wha?

One of yesterdays speakers was from HP, yes that HP, talking about how envrionmentally friendly their products were. Meanwhile, elsewhere on campus, a pile of e-waste sits comprised of shitty dead inkjet printers, most of which are .... HP.

Eco Bio!

But the clincher was the endnote speaker, Frank Dejong, former leader of the Ontario Green Party and still a candidate somewhere in Toronto for the mysterious election we might be having this year maybe. I knew Frank back in the day, as I was in when there was still room for lefties, but the following quote will reveal why he is still with them and I am not:

"It doesnt matter whether a job from Canada goes to China or India."

Wha?

This was not a slip of the tongue. I think it should be called a "vert-ian slip", wherein a Canadian Green reveals their genuine conservative libertiarian colours awash in a sea of Greenspeak.

Eco Bio!