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 When confronted with two crumb producing children and a seriously lack of dog, our thoughts turned from kneeling and sweeping to kneeling and vacuuming.
With a sack of points at our disposal, we did a little research and picked up a slick ‘little’ Dyson DC30 handheld.

Of the minimal amount of gadgets we have in our possession […]

Is this guy overreaching yet
Milking the the successful run of Holmes on Homes, Mikie has since built a home in New Orleans, ‘wrote’ a home Inspection Guide, launched a Home Inspection show… and now… a magazine.

I’m a sucker for all things reno, the way I figure, if even one thing in the magazine can save […]

If ManBearPig is on your shopping list this season.  Head over to the BioSphere this weekend for the Recycling Artists Eco Fair.
Presented from December 4 to 6, the fourth annual Recycling Artists Eco Fair will bring together 52 exhibitors from Quebec who share the same artistic and environmental vision: to create objects, accessories, jewellery and […]

Thanks to a tip from a good friend named AceOP I present to you the tastiest of battery scams.  Thinking of dropping the disposable battery? About time.  Just be on the lookout for wolves in goat costumes.  Or better yet, crap in a shiny wrapper.

Have a quick looksy at what this author found when he […]

Plastic packaging has been a consumer headache for years, and in worst cases it’s landed people in the hospital. In 2004, about 6,500 Americans were rushed to emergency rooms when they sustained injuries from trying to free their gadgets from stubborn plastic enclosures.
Never been hospitalized, but I’ve been real close to hurting myself and those […]

Can I call you Tim?   Click and read an absolutely brilliant open letter to Tim Hortons.

Scented products contain undisclosed compounds that are defined as hazardous chemicals under U.S. law, an environmental researcher says.
Steinemann’s analysis of six best-selling items (three air fresheners and three laundry products) found they contained nearly 100 volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, “but none of the VOCs were listed on any product label.”
Ten of the VOCs are […]

Digging through the ingredient list on sunscreen is a pain in the ass.  The Environmental Working Group has done their homework and amassed a large searchable database of sunscreens to save you the pain.

I’m not a big sunscreen user, I tend to seek shaded nooks and trees with massive canopies.  However the little guy, well […]

As mentioned below by faithful commenter ‘the milliner’ people are often looking for alternatives to the way it used to be.  That being not giving a shit about the products we ingest or bring into our homes.  Options are becoming more readily available for every recipe, for every project.  Take plywood, please.
Columbia, North America’s largest […]

IKEA is large enough to set trends in the marketplace.  When they introduced a 0.05$ charge to take a plastic grocery bag, people took notice.
In the first six months of the “Bag the Bag” program, IKEA Canada has reduced its Plastic Bag use by 90 per cent across the country. Last October, IKEA Canada conducted […]

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 […]

Found another hidden gem in NDG (yes working there has proven quite fruitful) called ‘A Votre Santé’. The whole gamut of organic products from vitamins and baby care products, to cereals and cheese. Don’t let it’s tiny entrance fool you, it’s really huge inside with a wide and well selected choice of goodies.

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