Bhutan is an amazing little country that has banned cigarettes and measures its success not through the backwards-looking GDP but by Gross National Happiness. In another step to be the one of the friendliest to the environment, the Asian nation has now pledged to produce and consume only organic food!
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Things Are Good: How to Reduce Household Food Waste
It was recently found out that Canadians waste a lot of food, 51% of which is wasted inside the home. This means that there are ways that each individual can make a difference! The CBC has a tip sheet on what you can do at home to ensure you don’t
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Video: Sustainable South Osborne
The Riverview Hoop House was one of the projects on display during a walking tour of urban agricultural projects organized by the Sustainable South Osborne Community Co-op in June in Winnipeg. Coordinator Scott Harrison explains how it works. Photo: Paul S. Graham Where does your food come from? If you’re
Continue readingThings Are Good: A New Stove Project Looks to Crowdsource Healthier Heating
Regular readers of this site may know that we are fans of efficient stoves. The Kenya Stove is a new project to get efficient stoves in the hands of Kenyans. Erin, from Kenya Stove writes: First some bad news: More than 3 billion people rely on traditional cookstoves for cooking
Continue readingknitnut.net: First, borrow a kitchen
This is a messy job. I recommend using your boyfriend’s kitchen, especially if he has a Cuisinart and a tendency to clean up after you. You start with this: About halfway through, the kitchen will look like this: And the great big pot will look like this: When your great
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PostModern PostMedia
Somehow Stephen Maher has a job at PostMedia. It’s amazing, there is still some honest journalism going on at the husk of former Black-owned newspapers, in 2012 no less. Instead of enlightening people about the treasonous robocalls made in the last general election, this time he’s explaining that climate change
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Baskin-Robbins and the Walmartization of Ice Cream
It’s been an unusually hot summer, and soaring temperatures have boosted sales of that quintessential summer food, ice cream. But Baskin-Robbins has decided to shut its production facility in Peterborough, Ont., and lay off 80 workers because of…wait for it… increased demand! From the department of “wait, what?”, here’s the
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Show and Tell – What I did on my Summer Vacation
Toronto in all it’s glory! So, today is my first day back to work after 10 days of vacay and I must say….it was pretty awesome! My girlfriend and I took part in the time honoured (?) tradition of a “staycation”. Given that we live in the Big Smoke that
Continue readingArt Threat: The art of roadkill – A conversation with artist Kate Puxley
Kate Puxley is a visual artist whose work has drawn attention to the Harper government’s damaging policies toward art and culture as well as our relationship with animals and the natural environment. Arresting, breathtaking, and inimitable, her drawings, paintings, installations, and most recently her taxidermy sculptures, are provocations and interventions
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Sand Land: Frac Sand Mining in Western Wisconsin – Video Report by DeSmogBlog
Sand mine.jpg The rush to drill for unconventional gas, enabled by a process popularly known as "fracking," or hydraulic fracturing, has brought with it much collateral damage. Close observers know about contaminated water, earthquakes, and climate change impacts of the shale gas boom, but few look at the entire life
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Follow Friday – Old Toronto Beer Tour – #FF
Mmmmm…frothy Beer! So, last weekend our esteemed Movie Monday videographer and I got to do something super awesome: we went on the “Old Toronto Beer Tour“. Now, I should start off by telling you that drinking from 11am-9pm was something that I did for all of you, my fair readers.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Mosaic 2012 #WHYQR
I had an excellent evening out in Regina with my wife, family, and friends. I met some Ward 1 residents too along the way, including Joe and his wife. Joe’s writing a book about Regina, and it may be available by the end of this year. He also had very
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: The Paulitics of Food – Movie Monday
So, today’s Movie Monday blends two of my favourite things: good food and politics! This week’s video is meant to stir up some conversation about things like organic foods, the 100 Mile Diet, and healthy eating. Mostly, I am challenging you to rethink the way you currently view your food.Our
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ChitChat; Twitter and CVAF
Friday night I spent at Beer Bros with the best sort of party companions: Tweeters! Far from having their noses and thumbs buried in their phones, these Tweeters are social sorts, looking to meet new people and practice their wit in a real-world environment, off the online-record. To practice my
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Part of This Balanced Breakfast
A REAL complete balanced breakfast… So, I was eating a delicious post-run breakfast this morning consisting of some cottage cheese, tomato, avocado and grapefruit (yes, I’m trying to make you feel badly about what you had for breakfast) and realized just how damn healthy it was! Just for fun, I
Continue readingTrashy's World: Trashy in China 4.0
Food, glorious FOOD edition! Some of my fave food shots from my trips to the Middle Kingdom. Some North Americans tend to avoid the real Chinese places… I’m not one of them. Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingThings Are Good: Loblaws Plans on Removing Artificial Ingredients from its Food
Artificial ingredients have a bad reputation because they’ve been left untested for years. Now, one of Canada’s largest grocery stores is ring to remove all those artificial ingredients from their in-house food line. This follows other pod providers and is a direct reaction to growing consumer concerns over some of
Continue reading350 or bust: The Response To Food Dictatorship: Occupy Our Food System
* VandanaShiva.org: Global Visionary Solutions For A Secure & Sustainable Energy And Food Future Dirt! The Movie
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RoboCoke: Fun Contest to Celebrate Dying Democracy
I dislike both Coke and iTunes, thinking the world would be a better place without either of them. I hate RoboCon a lot more though, because our country would be a lot better off without cynical and illegal attempts to subvert our democratic elections. So I’m combining all of these
Continue readingThings Are Good: Biofuel from Whiskey
Celtic Renewables has found a way to turn a byproduct from the creation of whiskey into something even more flammable: fuel. This will greatly lower the wast from whiskey distillation while contributing to the growing field of bio-energy. Neat! This isn’t the first time someone has thought to turn whiskey
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