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During Our Green Year, my wife and I have worked hard to make sure that the animal life around the ranch is protected and safe. Sadly, sometimes we see an animal die and it is not a pretty thing to see. Nothing can ruin your day more than when you are sitting in the living [...]
During this month, you will have an opportunity to jump start the changes you want to make for yourself in the new year. Maybe you want to lose weight, eat healthier, organize your home or office, or be more active with your children. These are all accomplishable goals, and the best part about them is [...]
If you are like most people, the past year offered some unusual weather patterns. The problem is that the reality has not fit with conventional views of what climate change will bring. For a start, if the planet is experiencing global warming why so much cold weather?
Like many North American cities, Vancouver has been [...]
Renovations are going to be starting in the spring at our ranch to help make it more environmentally-sustainable. Recently we made the decision to go green by using bamboo flooring and crushed glass counters, but then we began to wonder just how green is bamboo? As with anything, there are plenty of good points but [...]
The world uses almost 100 million tonnes of plastic materials every year, and according to WasteOnline.org, this is 20 times more plastic than we consumed 50 years ago. So much of the items we take for granted are made up of plastic such as grocery store bags, food containers, bottles, organizing bins, trash cans, pet [...]
Over the eight months that my wife and I have been doing Our Green Year, we have had to make a lot of sacrifices. It has been difficult at times, but overall it has been very rewarding. One thing we have been trying to do along with lowering our carbon footprint, is lowering our water [...]
This semester I have embarked on a five month stay in Cork, Ireland and from my first day here I have noticed the little things that the UK, and consequently national all across the EU, are doing to preserve the environment in a big way.
My first trip to Tesco involved making sure I had [...]
Christmas might be over but that doesn’t mean that the gift giving stops here. On New Year’s Day, you will have a clean slate to work with, but soon enough you will start receiving invitations to birthdays, baby showers, weddings, graduations, etc. Before you know it, you will have your whole year of giving planned [...]
Unlike the newly branded stream of Hybrid vehicles with the Hybrid
monikers stamped on no less than two places on each vehicle, flexible fuel
vehicles (FFVs for short) transverse our streets a bit more incognito. So much so that you may even be driving one
without any knowledge of doing so. Produced
since the early 1980’s there are a [...]
Most people in Canada watch Corner Gas, and those who do probably remember the episode where Brent went on vacation. However, his vacation consisted of sitting in a lawn chair across the road, while sending post cards from exotic places to his friends, who were literally only feet from him. From here, the concept of [...]
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