Students from the Sustainable New Construction certificate program and instructors from the Endeavour Centre, an incorporated non-profit have attempted to build Canada’s most sustainable home in Peterborough, Ontario.
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Bear’s-Eye View
Polar bears have been popping up all over the media these days.
Generation Green
Re-published from Green Living Online. They are the next generation of thinkers, teachers, politicians, scientists, activists and environmentalists. People under 25 make up almost half of humankind – three billion people who, for the most part, have little say in political affairs, yet it’s their future that’s at stake.
Making Meaning Out of Mountains
It’s been said that every migrant to a mountain town idealizes that town in exactly the form it existed in on the day they arrived. In The Weekender Effect, Canmore, Alberta-based author and water use expert Robert Sandford suffers from a severe case of this particular nostalgia.
Whatever Happened to Renewable Energy?
An international debate over the relative pros and cons of bioenergy has intensified between environmental organizations, governments and climate change leaders in recent years. This lively discussion has been dragging out by the delayed release of the European Union’s sustainability requirements for solid biofuels (originally expected in early 2012).
The Green Athlete: Carbon Neutral Sports Games
Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE), which owns the Toronto Maple Leafs, Marlies, Raptors and Toronto FC, made a major commitment to become more environmentally friendly in 2008, investing over $5 million over the past five years into reducing their overall carbon footprint at the Air Canada Centre, their home […]
Fantastic Flaxtic + Giveaway!
Open Mind Developments Corporation (OMD) is reimagining conventional plastic as flaxstic. Flaxstic mixes flax fibre and shive from flax straw (an agricultural waste product) with biopolymers made from renewable non-food crops. OMD is making a biodegradable and compostable smartphone case from the material.
Can Vegetarians Slow Climate Change?
Re-published from Green Living Online. Author Michael Pollan says everything he’s learned about food can be summed up in seven little words: “Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.”
The Bittersweet World of Chocolate
Chocolate and Valentine’s Day seem like a match made in heaven but, in terms of environmental sustainability, how long can this relationship last?
Saving the Ocean: Scourge of the Lionfish
Follow Marine Biologist Carl Safina as he takes viewers around the world to show us how today’s ocean issues are being solved in his PBS series “Saving the Ocean.” You can watch full episodes online at the PBS website. Here at A/J he’s giving us a behind the scenes look at each episode.
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