Entries Tagged as 'Canada'
guelph goes green
August 26th, 2008 No Comments
Tags: Green Party of Canada · Guelph · Mike Nagy
dear tim
August 21st, 2008 No Comments
Can I call you Tim? Click and read an absolutely brilliant open letter to Tim Hortons.
Tags: Canada · Corporate Leadership · Tim Horton's · Unsustainable
this store blows - 514
July 8th, 2008 2 Comments
Taking a cue from a great post entitled “This Store Blows” over at Racked.com… I present to you the 514 version. Here’s their concept:
Come summer, you see retailers around the city leaving the doors of their stores propped wide open in the hopes of enticing shoppers in with blasts of frigid air conditioning. In protest […]
Tags: AC wastage · Montreal · Photo · Racked.com · This Store Blows
the economics of organic milk
July 8th, 2008 No Comments
Here’s a quick read on what farmer’s go through during a transitional period, switching from industrial dairy farming to organic dairy farming.
Organic milk demand is growing by an estimated 25 per cent a year, according to industry studies.
Fisher studied eight farms that switched from conventional to organic farming in recent years, detailing production levels, revenues […]
Tags: Antibiotics · Farming · Montreal · Ontario · Organic Milk
today’s, must read
June 12th, 2008 No Comments
“Canadian DMCA” brings “balanced” copyright to Canada.
Tags: Borg · DMCA · DVD · Made in CanadaUSA · Peer to Peer · Time Shifting
gg awards for architecture
May 7th, 2008 No Comments
treehugger notes some of the highlights from this years governor general awards.
Tags: architecture awards · gg · Green Building
da big wild
May 5th, 2008 No Comments
Add your voice, it matters.
The Big Wild refers to the part of Canada that is still in its natural state. The large roadless area where rivers flow free, big lakes and oceans lap against wild shores and animals of diverse species roam as they have for thousands of years.
Our vision is to keep at least […]
Tags: Big Wild · Canada · MEC · Preservation · Wilderness