Gill Deacon: green for life
February 29, 2008
Gill Deacon has spent the last fifteen years honing her awareness about how to be a good planetary citizen and has released a new book published by Penguin, Green for Life: 175 Simple Eco-Ideas for Everyday - a guide to making sustainable living ‘the new normal.’ Read more
Say it with organic flowers
February 9, 2008
This Valentine’s Day, express your love for your sweetheart with organically grown and fairly traded flowers. Conventionally cultivated commercial flowers produced in South America, from which Canada sources most of its imported blooms, are sprayed with highly toxic pesticides, fungicides and fumigants - 20% of which are banned in North America for being extremely carcinogenic. Read more
Bisphenol A - the latest
February 7, 2008
This week some of the most heavily used brands of polycarbonate baby bottles across Canada have turned up ‘very significant levels’ of bisphenol A in a report released by the Toronto-based environmental group Environment Defence. Read more
The trouble with teflon
February 1, 2008
The ease of cooking with Teflon pans is familiar to anyone who’s ventured into the kitchen, but few of us have considered their potential health effects. At high temperatures, Teflon cookware emits at least six gases - including two carcinogens. Once released, these gases can hang around the environment forever, cause illness in humans and even kill birds. Read more
Urban agriculture in Vancouver
February 1, 2008
This is one of the first of many posts on urban agriculture in Vancouver and BC, and to kick off such an important component of our cities, we thought a picture (or in this case a video stream) is worth a thousand words.