Rethinking Lifestyle

Last week, we showed ‘Fresh’ the movie, a film that encouraged us to think a little more about where our food comes from and how it is produced.

A garden is the place for lying in the grass, swinging, croquet, growing flowers, throwing a ball for the dog. But there is another way of being outdoors: and its needs are not met by the garden at all.

This week I picked up my first annual supply of grass fed beef. Why am I excited?

The recent mailing from our MP again stated it clearly, “The top priority for the Conservative Government is to promote job creation and economic growth.”

As a new year starts, we often resolve to do things better. Here are five resolutions to try to do some good for yourself and the planet.

As I watched the line up of cars waiting at the drive thru for Tim Horton’s this morning while I walked our dog in Penner Park, I couldn’t help but wonder why Canadians like to spend so much time burning gas and going nowhere?

I was disappointed to find out Dr David Suzuki, such a supporter of sustainable living eats McDonald’s – he was seen with his ‘Happy Meal’ in Brandon last week!

Much as I appreciate the contribution our public broadcaster, the CBC, makes to our understanding of our world, there are times, it seems, when they can’t resist the temptation to be sensational rather than informative.

The City of Steinbach is growing quickly. New subdivisions, changes in by-laws and addition of large retail businesses are all in response to strong demand from the public.

A recent issue of The Marketplace magazine featured an amazing report about how two cousins, Dennis Dick and Roger Tiessen, are managing to turn garbage into heat, electricity and fertilizer in the Leamington, Ontario region through Seacliff Energy Ltd., a company they founded.