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With Earth Day quickly approaching, many people are thinking about how much waste they create.  I recently connected with a local Green Hero, Barbara Frensch (she's the one who pushed to have bottled water banned from City of Burlington rec faci...(Read More)

Today is a beautiful summer's day and we did one of my favourite summer things: go to the farmer's market.  When we got to there, my son asked me, "Why do we buy fruits and vegetables from the farmer's market?"   "There are lots of reas...(Read More)

I enjoy camping.  In fact, some of my favourite memories I have growing up are camping with my brothers and sisters.  It was so much fun swimming, fishing having campfires and checking out new areas we had never explored before.  Campi...(Read More)

  Today my son and I went for a walk in our neighbourhood. We live in a nice neighbourhood, but it was a windy day and  lots of garbage had collected along fences and on the boulevards.  Windy garbage days are even worse as papers, ...(Read More)

Last Saturday was Earth Hour.  I wrote in a previous blog post how excited I was that it was coming up.  Then we were invited to a family birthday party, for that very same day.  I asked my husband if he thought it would be o.k. if I...(Read More)

  I like to think that I'm energy conscious.  Nothing irritates me more than walking into my son's room and seeing the light left on.... especially if it's a gorgeous, sunny day, and the curtains are wide open.  I feel like a broken r...(Read More)

Well, I finally did it! I got some black gold out of my compost! It is dark, rich and lumpy. Earlier in the year I shared with you some things I learned about composting, particularly what I was doing wrong. I was treating my compost like a na...(Read More)

There's nothing like the smell of the clean, laundered clothes, fresh off of the clothesline. I love hanging the laundry out to dry on the clothesline. It reminds me of when my Mom used to do it when I was little. It makes me feel like I'm doing m...(Read More)

The other day I saw someone who inspired me.   It was a woman with a green bag.  She was next to a church on a busy street in my community.  She would walk a few steps, then bend down to pick-up something.  She did th...(Read More)

Do you eat enough fruits and vegetables?  This is something that I know that I am working on, especially with my husband and kids.  One thing I didn’t realize though, is how many servings of green vegetables we should be eating.&nbs...(Read More)

  For Earth Day, I thought I would give our humble planet a happy earth day gift.  For 2008, I pledge to be a faithful and diligent composter and the fruits of my labour will be given back to mother earth, in the form of compost. A...(Read More)