Tag: Green
Going ‘Green’ for Red and Green Season
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 [...]
Posted: December 22nd, 2008 under Green Living, environment, sustainability.
Tags: environment, Green, Green Living, holiday tree, sustainable
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Up, Up, and Away
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 [...]
Posted: November 14th, 2008 under Climate Change, Energy, aviation, environment, sustainability.
Tags: aviation, environment, Green, tansportation, tourism, travel, virgin
Comments: 1
The Election and The Environment
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 [...]
Posted: November 4th, 2008 under Election 2008, environment.
Tags: Biden, election, environment, future, Green, health, history, McCain, obama, Palin, preservation
Comments: 1
Whistler’s Going Green
For those of you who know me, know I am absolutely passionate about downhill skiing. As a family past-time of mine we started out as ski racers at local Ontario hill Mansfield, where I also started my ski coaching and instructing career. Now my boyfriend and I head up to Collingwood every weekend to coach [...]
Posted: September 21st, 2008 under Energy, Sustainable Infrastructure, environment.
Tags: Energy, Green, renewable energy, Sustainable Infrastructure, whistler
Comments: 3
Thoreau’s Walden Inspires Me To Be Greener
An Ontario camping legend and friend of mine passed away recently. He was insprired by Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and taught us, his campers, to live that way. Ted believed that we could all be dreamer’s and around a campfire would sing “…and a dreamer keeps a dreamin’ ages long.”
It has been a few years [...]
Posted: August 25th, 2008 under Green Living, sustainability.
Tags: Green, Henry David Thoreau, Recycle, sustainability, Transit, Walden
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