The think tank, Clean Energy Canada, recently reported that Canada’s green energy sector now employs more people than the oil sands enterprise.
The beginning of the year often stirs thoughts about what is ahead, and I have been wondering what can we expect in 2015 for our local environment?
I didn’t send a wish list to Santa this year, but if I did, here are just some of the things I would put on it.
This week I was reading an article by Kathryne Grisim on FoodMusings.ca, in which the author described how her family had come to the decision that they would exchange gifts that were either: homemade, fairly traded or locally produced.
A global concern we hear much about these days is the question of how we will be able to feed a mushrooming population.
When we talk about recycling, very few of us have a clear understanding of the system we’re talking about.
It is always astonishing to see so much garbage at the end of driveways on garbage pick-up days. Not just one bag but often 3 or 4 bags as well as the blue box full of re-cycling stuff.
“Local recycling plant struggling to keep up” – that was the headline in the local paper. My first reaction to that headline and the article was one of self-congratulation. After all if we recycle more we landfill less, and that’s good.
The South Eastman Transition Initiative (SETI) AGM is next week, which has got me reflecting over the past year as well as thinking ahead to the coming year.
Denmark has one, Vermont has one, Ontario has one, Nova Scotia has one, and Manitoba has one (sort of). Canada does not have one.
