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 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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Climate change, Conservation, Energy, Greenhouse gases, Resolutions on January 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Now that we’ve been thinking greener for a while, I thought it would be interesting to find out what kind of an impact our lifestyle has on the planet. Using a carbon footprint calculator, I plugged in all sorts of information about our family from the number of kilowatt hours of electricity we use every year [...]
Posted in Composting, Energy, Green lifestyle, Greenhouse gases on January 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Want to leave a legacy your family will never, ever forget?
How about letting the funeral home that cremates your body use the heat from burning you up to heat the room where your funeral is being held? That’s what a funeral director in England is proposing to his customers. “It is a generous gesture,” he says.
You [...]
