sasha on the street

It’s that time of the year again. You look outside and the trees are adorned with lights, there are decorations everywhere and depending on where you live (almost anywhere in Canada right now) children are playing in the snow … really it looks magical outside.  But all of the glitz and glamour is energy consuming.
I was [...]

Lately one of my favourite shows to watch is The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos. It is entertaining, informative, makes me laugh and a great way to close my day.
More recently on the show he has been promoting One Million Acts of Green; your way to make a difference to the environment. The simplest way to [...]

 What is active transportation?
Have you ever thought I’m going to combine how I get to work with my exercise for the day? Did you walk, run, or ride your bike to work? Those are all forms of active transportation. Active transportation is any form of human-powered transportation. The most popular are riding your bike and [...]

Last night while flipping through the channels trying to get some R&R (I had severely underestimated my run home from work) I happened upon a CBC documentary The Sky’s the Limit.  Although I usually dedicate any TV watching I get to sports this doc really got my attention.

Where is the future of Aviation?
The bulk of the [...]

I have missed a couple of weeks with Vanderburg’s course, well I’ve been there but I wasn’t inspired to write a blog about it. This week was different, Vanderburg really got us thinking about the producer-consumer environment. Maybe it was my friend Steve’s blog that really got me thinking about it, but we as consumers [...]

The media has built up the 2008 US Election to be the most ‘historical election.’ That doesn’t really get me excited because I’m almost certain that the next one will also be the most historic. However, when it comes to the environment this is our most historic US election.
Today will decide if America moves forward [...]

Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Canadian Value Engineering Conference. Value Engineering? Value Engineering (VE) is much like a design vignette. A group of individuals including engineers, technicians, planners, etc get together and brainstorm solutions to a given construction opportunity. That might be a new subway, a GO expansion, a highway rehabilitation, a [...]

Harvesting season is over here in Southern Ontario, another year of delicious fruits and vegetables has passed. This year I decided to try and grow a few vegetables in my garden, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, eggplant, peppers and zucchini. At the end of the summer I ended up with mostly zucchini, they had taken over my [...]

I recently opened up my notes from the TAC Conference back in September and was inspired. Too often do we attend something and never again reflect upon it. While organizing my desk the other day I found my notes and decided to spend a few minutes with them.
The notes I was re-reading were from the [...]

When I took my new job in the spring one of my goals was to use my car less frequently and travel by ‘green’ means, whether that was by public transportation, carpooling, biking, etc.
Lately it has become more challenging with the weather, but more importantly because I’m beginning to fear my own personal safety.
On Wednesday night [...]