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
Local little success story
January 12, 2008
Kalpna Solanki is a mother whose public health and environmental background led her to evaluate all baby food products on the market while her baby was still breastfeeding. Her findings revealed that baby food didn’t seem very creative and was not of the calibre that she wanted for her child. She was uncompromising when it came to the quality of her baby’s nutrition, so when it was time to introduce solid foods, she made everything from scratch using the best quality organic ingredients.
Margaret Atwood: green inventor
December 7, 2007
Acclaimed Canadian writer and poet Margaret Atwood is also an environmental pioneer. Her LongPen™ invention, comprised of a video screen and digital writing pad at one location and a video screen and automated pen at another, helps authors and other celebrities reduce their ecological footprints by allowing them to forgo air travel.