Forget green, going blue is the new trend. Early last week Burnaby B.C. was dubbed Canada’s first 'blue community' for promoting public water and waste water services, recognizing water as a human right and banning or phasing out bottled water at municipal events.
While this award is a pat on the back from the Council of Canadians, it fails to mention a major concern - water consumption.
"While we encourage water conservation and reduced consumption, really our minds the major threat to water ...
Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, is famous for the 60-odd children’s books he wrote, notably Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
What most don't know about him, though, is that when it came to illustrating books, Dr. Seuss expressed hidden opinions on the current political and environmental issues of his day.
Through works like The Lorax (shown above,) he expressed his disdain for consumerism and did so with the justification that "there’s ...
On Saturday March 27th, 2010, millions of people from around the world turned off their lights as part of the World Wildlife Fund’s global Earth Hour campaign.
In Canada, homes and businesses, along with national monuments such as the CN Tower in Toronto, the Lion’s Gate Bridge in Vancouver and the Niagara Falls plunged into darkness.
According toCBC, demand for electricity fell across the country, dipping by as much as 4 percent in Ontario, and, according to another article, by 1.04 percent ...
