Archive for May 2nd, 2008
About 30 beehive burners remain in BC despite government edict to shut them down
MERRITT, B.C. – When the Tolko sawmill’s beehive burner shuts down in August, it will be one more small step on the way to getting rid of the wood-waste incinerators that successive B.C. governments…
SFU professor launches contest in bid to find world’s “greenest” person
VANCOUVER, B.C. – A Simon Fraser University professor is offering up a pod of beluga whales to the world’s greenest person.
Green Living Blog: Make your lunches greener
After reading this post, don’t forget to enter our contest – you could win a new dishwasher. Plus, do you have your own story to tell? Send it to greenchallenge@canadianliving.com (no more than 300…
liberals itching to push the green button
Canada should position itself as an environmental superpower
to benefit from a clean-energy “green rush” that’s about to sweep
the globe.
Canadians commuting green
OTTAWA — With some economists predicting gas prices will hit
the $1.50 a litre mark this summer, Canadians may begin trading
planes, trains and automobiles for buses, bikes and scooters.
Climate change said to affect poles differently
WASHINGTON — The Arctic and Antarctica are poles apart when
it comes to the effects of human-fuelled climate change, scientists
said Friday: In the north, it is melting sea ice, but in the south,
it…
Tests start on surviving Syncrude ducks
A sickly, oil-covered duck was delivered Thursday to a Parks
Canada station in a national park more than 200 kilometres north of
Syncrude’s Aurora mine and tailings pond.
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This scarecrow stands guard at the Grafton Community Garden in the heart of Roncesvalles Village, just north of Queen Street West. Photographer Charla Jones captured him alone, casting a shadow over…
Selling off the TTC is back on the table. Is it time?
Last weekend’s snap TTC strike not only left commuters stranded and the city scrambling for answers, but it also dragged up a prickly issue in its wake. Privatization, considered to be a dirty word…
The natural way to happiness
OTTAWA — Happiness takes on a whole new meaning when it
comes to Ottawa psychology researcher John Zelenski.
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