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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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These are by far the coolest reusable bottles on the market.  But before I pick one up I just need to know…

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Hi all, just a quick post (another to follow) to state that today’s bag giveaway was a super success. Thanks to everyone that helped build up to this day, from fabric donations to sewing events, to machine loaners etc. And thanks to the giveaway crew, who shook off the early rejections and handed […]

Draw a giant circle around Montreal with a radius of 100km. Then find all the organic farms that fit snugly within that border. Now support those farms.
Here’s a few to start:
44.1km - Ile Perot, Qc - Windmill Point Farm
Offering a gamut of fruits and veggies (oooh organic potatoes)
100km - Waterloo, Qc - […]

This time a local producer steps into the ring. The competitors being Liberté and Loblaws brand PC Organics Milk.
Lamothe est Freres milk, squeezing the cow’s teet since 1913. Raises the bar, on Price!
Charging 5.19$ (at Metro) for a 2L jug of 2%, Biolait really puts the squeeze on consumers trying to select […]

Hey all, in the time honored fashion of iPhones and Xbox360s I now will unbox our spanking new Stokke Tripp Trapp highchair. Possibly start a baby stuff unboxing trend… :P (picked it up at Rose ou Bleu in Montreal)

-Box (really tiny), Cushion, Baby Rail

-Available in lots of Colours, this is Walnut

- Me thinks […]