Environment

10 ways to feed your family without killing the planet (Blog Action Day)

October 15, 2009




Today is Blog Action Day 2009. Last year's theme was poverty and I effortlessly wrote a long post about our Empathy Deficit and how it is preventing us from making poverty history. This year's theme is climate change. Just a few days ago I was listening to Tim Flannery on CBC radio talking about his [...]

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Things you should read…

June 5, 2009




I've read some things this week that made me nod. Things that made my jaw drop. Things that you should read. They aren't really connected in any logical way that I could tie together, so I'll just throw them at you. Go read them! Ready to piss off a mom blogger? Seek a pregnant woman [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: Earth Day – Child in Nature

April 22, 2009




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Cures for Nature Deficit Disorder? Help for our Planet?

October 13, 2008




I am nearing in on the final few hours of a mostly beautiful fall long weekend. While visiting my parents for Canadian Thanksgiving, I woke up this morning thinking about the Sunday walks that we sometimes took with my dad. We would head out into the woods, exploring the inofficial trails, the apple trees along [...]

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Organic on the cheap! 10 strategies

July 24, 2008




I hear a lot of people say that they couldn't possibly buy organic food for their family because it is too expensive. I agree that if you want fresh strawberries and mangoes in January in Canada or want to pick up individually wrapped fresh boneless skinless chicken breasts, then it is unaffordable. However, using some [...]

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Of SUVs and manufacturing…

July 20, 2008




Our children will inherit a different world from the one we grew up in. And today was a reminder of that. Over the past few decades, the North American economy has been shifting further towards a service-based economy. Manufacturing jobs are being moved overseas and as a result, factories in Canada and the United States [...]

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Raining on the diapers

June 23, 2008




We use cloth diapers, to save money and the environment. And when the ground is not covered with snow and ice, we try to hang them outside to dry, also to save money and the environment. This usually works quite well, but over the past 24 hours, each time the diapers are almost dry, it starts [...]

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