While waiting my turn at the supermarket checkout I noticed the man in front of me had a small bunch of kale. Then I noticed that this little bit of kale cost $1.99 and that got me thinking.
Last week in this column I dealt with the challenge all of our towns and cities have: how to deal with the phosphorous in our liquid waste-water stream.
It is exciting to follow developments with respect to the Landmark and Niverville lagoon reclamation projects. Both are using swamp vegetation to remove phosphorous from their lagoons.
This is a question that I have asked myself many times, as a parent, as a university student of international development studies and as a fellow human being watching the world’s climate change and feeling helpless to make an impact.
So the looney has dipped below seventy cents in relation to the American dollar. Of course that means that all the fruits and vegetables we buy in our grocery stores coming from the USA are becoming more expensive.
The term “Kitchen Party” refers to a style of gathering that has been around for hundreds of years. During a Kitchen Party, friends and family gather; eating, playing music, singing, and dancing.
Once in a while an interesting article pops up in my social media feeds, and this week it was an article on how to be a climate friendly eater by Lydia O’Connor in the Huffington Post.
It appears that we have entered a new political climate in which global climate change is being taken seriously by most governments, industries and citizens around the world.
At the time of this writing, the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) is wrapping up in Paris.
This week, world leaders are meeting in Paris to talk about climate. The good news is that this is the first time in eight years that we do not expect to receive the scorn of the rest of the world for our role in delaying global progress and pulling out of international treaties.
