Posted in Climate change, Conservation, Energy, Green lifestyle on March 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Earth Hour is tonight from 8 to 9 p.m. wherever you live.
Think you’ll be bored in an hour without electricity? Here are some suggestions to keep you busy:
Read
Play board games
Knit
Talk to your significant other. Who know what that could lead to…
Play with your kids
Sing
Play an instrument
Draw
Sleep
Go for a walk
Montreal Canadiens’ fans: listen to the game [...]
Posted in Babies, Energy, Food, Green lifestyle, Greenhouse gases on March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As I was breastfeeding my toddler for what felt like the umpteenth time yesterday, I started to try to think about the postive aspects of nursing forever and ever amen. This is what I am going to try to focus on instead of trying to figure out why this baby just does not want to be weaned. [...]
Posted in Composting, Green lifestyle, Recycling, Trees, Uncategorized on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last year, we began to try to buy toilet paper and paper towels that were made only from recycled paper. (I know, I know, we shouldn’t use paper towels. I’m working on it!!)
According to Greenpeace Canada, if each household in Canada replaced 1 roll of virgin toilet paper with just one roll of recycled toilet paper, [...]
Posted in Climate change, Conservation, Energy, Green lifestyle, Greenhouse gases, Reduce on March 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
People around the world are making plans to shut off their electricity for an hour on March 29 (that’s two weeks from tonight) in a global statement against global warming. More than 32,000 Canadians – including our family – have already pledged to turn off their lights between 8 and 9 p.m., local time.
Last year, [...]
Posted in Composting, Food, Green lifestyle, Uncategorized on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This would be one of the many squirrels that has discovered the buffet at our backyard compost bin. Hard to see the bins, buried under the 26cm of snow that fell here on Saturday night.
But what hungry squirrel would let 26cm of snow keep them from a tasty snack? Not this one, who dug a [...]
Posted in Junk mail, Reduce on March 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t you hate that feeling when you open up your mailbox, pull out a handful of mail, all excited, only to discover that it’s almost all junk mail?
We get so much of it, either delivered by our letter carrier, or dropped off twice a week in plastic bag full of ads or hand-delivered by local advertisers. It nearly all [...]
Posted in Composting, Food, Green lifestyle, Plastic, Recycling on March 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ever since our family did a one-week garbage-free experiment last summer, I’ve been trying to keep our kids’ packed lunches and snacks as litterless as possible. The average Canadian kid’s lunch (like the one pictured above) is estimated to create about 30 kg of waste each year. I’d been at the kids’ schools at lunch and [...]
Posted in Composting, Green lifestyle, Resolutions on March 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For the first time since we got our outdoor compost bins, we are adding green waste like fruit and vegetable peels to it all winter long. It has kept the family of squirrels living in the maple tree in our back yard very happy as they have everything from canteloupe rinds to avocado skins to munch on in the cold dead of [...]
