Latest Blog Posts for The Green Theme

• A re-usable grocery bag system by Moukisac
  on Jul 3, 2009 in Recycling Moukisac re-usable grocery bag vegetable bag
  Are you wondering how to pack out your veggies and those bulk peas?  It’s hard seeing your tomatoes go rolling down the conveyor belt – it’s food you’re bowling!   Coming to the rescue is the 6 in 1 bag called the moukisac.
• Organic Islands Festival – Victoria BC
  on Jul 2, 2009 in Organic Food and Growing Organic Islands Festival Victoria
  If you’re coming to Victoria this weekend, be sure to check out the Organic Islands Festival at Glendale Gardens being held July 4-5th.  This annual event promises to be bigger and better than the last and just as sustainable!  Be sure to che...
• Purple Pipes – recycle your wastewater
  on Jun 29, 2009 in Around the House Recycling recycle your household wastewater
  BC is introducing legislation in 2010 that will require all new houses in the province to be built with water reclamation  rough-ins as part of a larger goal to reduce water consumption.  Theses pipes would be purple to make it clear that the water...
• Ducks Unlimited purchase Chemainus Estuary
  on Jun 21, 2009 in Enviro Notes Chemainus Estuary Ducks Unlimited
  Ducks Unlimited Canada purchased the Chemainus Estuary on Vancouver Island from Catalyst Paper for $3 million after twenty years of negotiations.  The estuary, located along the shoreline, comprises 200 hectares of pristine coastal habitat. Accordin...
• Watershed Watch – Sea Lice
  on Jun 20, 2009 in Enviro Notes fish farms sea lice wild salmon
  Watershed Watch – Sea Lice This is an excellent video on sea lice from fish farms and the impact on wild salmon! Posted using ShareThis...
• O.W.L. needs your help
  on Jun 19, 2009 in Enviro Notes bird rehabilitation birds
  The Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society in Delta, BC, has been hit by the economic downturn and needs your help in order to continue providing a safe place for birds that have run into trouble. OWL has been turned down for government subsidies a...
• A non-toxic paint stripper that works
  on Jun 18, 2009 in Around the House paint stripper
  I am in the midst of trying to remove acrylic paint off the banister.  Why?  I know it seems silly when there is so much else to do outside but it’s been bugging me for a while because while I painted the banister a couple of years ago, the o...
• Robins extirpated from my yard
  on Jun 16, 2009 in Around the House robins extirpated
  Usually every year around this time, I enjoy sitting in the window as some baby robins practice taking flight from one bush to another.  This year, however, I was worried when I saw that several green spaces in the area were being bulldozed to make...
• Save Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park
  on Jun 15, 2009 in Energy Enviro Notes Cline Mining Corp Flathead Valley Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park
  Waterton-Glacier International Park is perhaps one of the most beautiful parks I have ever seen and perhaps one of the most endangered according to the Sierra Club because of the proposed mining in the adjacent Flathead Valley.  Cline Mining Corpora...
• Home Sweet (Polluted) Home
  on Jun 14, 2009 in Around the House Cleaning natural household cleaner
  Did you know your home is one of the worst sources of pollution?  It’s hard to believe isn’t it, but all those nasty chemicals are being masked in pleasant smells.  According to the Georgia Strait Alliance’s ToxicSmart program, ch...

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