The GHG Spot: Love, marriage and carbon footprints

Some time ago I read that divorces are bad for the environment…>

Reasons to eat organic

I often find myself thinking about the quality of our foods. It can be scary when you think about what’s in our grocery stores: genetically modified foods, foods that contain synthetic hormones,…

Green Living Blog: Grow your own food

Today’s winner is Debbie Starkey of Porters Lake, Nova Scotia.

I have been on a mission to help our planet for years, doing everything in my power to reduce, reuse and recycle. My family takes…

Energy expertise at heart of city growth plan

CALGARY – Conceding Calgary can no longer compete on a cost basis to
attract business and workers, the city’s economic development agency
will focus on a five-plank plan to cultivate continued…

Canada should brace for tsunamis: scientists

The coast of British Columbia has long been considered as a high risk zone for earthquakes and underwater landslides that often cause tsunamis. Scientists now say Quebec and the East Coast should…

Health Canada investigates tainted gloves

Health Canada has launched an investigation after flies and what seemed to be larvae were found in latex medical gloves used by dentists and by doctors performing rectal exams and Pap tests.

Small Steps

Washing your car at home uses as much as 440 litres of water.
Commercial carwashes, meanwhile, use nearly half as much water. At
home, the warm, sudsy, detergent-loaded water runs down the…

Mud-boggers ruin environment, wildlife official says

CALGARY — After another long weekend of mud-bogging, a
wildlife officer is calling the environmental damage at McLean Creek
“unprecedented.”

Lower Mainland flops on efforts to slow down sprawl

The region failed to curb population sprawl in recent years
after some success in creating more compact communities in the ’90s,
a new report shows.

Bobbing for belugas

It’s raining hard as we head out through the grey swells into Hudson Bay and, like me, my expensive digital camera is tightly swaddled in waterproof material.The camera is sealed in a plastic bag….