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Recycling Your Stuff
Thursday, 08 April 2010
Stuff is all around us and it's often this time of year - spring cleaning and the end of the school year - that we begin to notice just how quickly it accumulates. I thought I'd share three ideas for getting rid of your excess in a simple and environmenta
Canadian Feds End Home Energy Retrofit Program
Friday, 02 April 2010
Unfortunately, this wasn't PM Harper's idea of an April Fool's day joke: On Thursday it was announced that the Federal Home Energy Retrofit program has been suspended. Over the last three years, home owners who sub
Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
Earth Hour NS Redux
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Did Nova Scotia actually do well during Earth Hour 2010? At first glance, the reported numbers sounded pretty good, but my neighbourhood didn't seem to be paying all that much attention to it. Time for a reality check. I always understand ene
Earth Hour Corporate Winners and Losers
Monday, 29 March 2010
While on our brief tour of the scenes of Earth Hour 2010, we thought we'd check out a few local establishments in our neighbourhood. I'd seen a fair amount of advertising this year and wasn't surprised to see a lot of big, national chains participating.
Earth Hour Results for Nova Scotia
Sunday, 28 March 2010
This was posted today on the NS Power website. For a relatively small province with a population of roughly a million people, this is pretty good. How did other areas fair?