With this great spring weather we’ve been having here in the frozen north, it was time to get the bikes back out and try to get back to leaving the car at home for short trips.
Yesterday was sunny, warm and all the streets were clear for a quick six-minute trip to one kids’ preschool. It was [...]
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Four wheels bad, two wheels good
Posted in Babies, Climate change, Driving, Green lifestyle, Greenhouse gases, Resolutions on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
No idling
Posted in Climate change, Conservation, Driving, Energy, Green lifestyle, Greenhouse gases, Public transit, Smog on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There’s an interesting story in today’s Montreal Gazette about the impact of idling your car. Besides polluting and wasting fuel, it also damages the car engine because newer cars are designed in order not to have to be idled before you start driving, even in the winter.
Idle Threat
Bylaw rarely enforced. Only 106 out of 1.3 [...]
Oil, that is, black gold
Posted in Climate change, Conservation, Driving, Energy, Green lifestyle, Greenhouse gases, Public transit, Resolutions on February 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been reading a couple of interesting things recently about the oil sands projects in Alberta.
The first is this series, published earlier this year in the Globe and Mail. The eight-day series looks at the development of the oil sands, and the environmental and social cost of the projects, which are estimated to have a [...]
Think eating lo-cal is hard? Try eating local in February
Posted in Climate change, Conservation, Driving, Food, Green lifestyle on February 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A few years ago I wrote a story (see below) for the Montreal Gazette about a British Columbia couple who were following what they called a 100-Mile Diet. For a year, they would only eat food that came from a 100-mile radius of their Vancouver home. Their project later became this book.
Writing that story really put [...]
One step forward, two steps back
Posted in Climate change, Driving, Green lifestyle, Greenhouse gases, Public transit, Resolutions on January 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Our quest to leave our car in the driveway to reduce our family’s contribution to climate change continues.
I’ve learned it takes excellent organizational abilities, superior time-management capabilities and the skills of a cultural animator to persuade some people in my family that taking a wagon, or God forbid, walking, is a fun way to get where [...]
Oh, the guilt
Posted in Climate change, Driving, Greenhouse gases, Public transit on January 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Our worst offending anti-Earth behaviour must be driving our minivan. With five people in the family, it’s a handy way to get from here to there. Still, you can’t argue that it’s environmentally friendly.
My husband was kind enough to remind me of the damage our driving does after a recent shopping trip to the West Island. [...]
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