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The Onaen Project - Urban Housing Regenerated

This is our entry for the Green Pages contest, 'My Big Sustainability Idea'. Please read and give us your support with your vote! We'd love to hear your thoughts and suggestions.

The Onaen House project is a new approach that intersects urban community revival, personal benefits, economic stability , ecological and community health.
In Canada’s read more

Submitted: February 23, 2009 22:34:26pm in: Energy, Climate Change & Your Carbon Footprint, Fair Trade & The Social Economy, Green Living/Sustainable Living, Sustainability Ideas, Law, Policy & Social Justice
Author: ArthurChurchyard

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Hornby Island Recycling Depot

History: In the late seventies as the island population began to expand, the limits of a small island became apparent when it came to garbage. This realization was a major impetus to the community to become one of the earliest pioneers in today's recycling movement.

Within a few weeks the old landfill site boasted glass and metal collection areas plus a read more

Submitted: February 18, 2009 13:35:25pm in: Waste (Solid) & Recycling
Author: cberg

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Comox Valley Land Trust

The Comox Valley Land Trust is an organization of local volunteers dedicated to protecting the the Comox Valley's heritage of land and resources through voluntary conservation.

The Trust has been incoporated as a non-profit society since 1999 and is also a registered Canadian charity. The trust has received general designation to hold read more

Submitted: February 18, 2009 12:49:49pm in: Ecosystems, Wildlife & Biodiversity
Author: cberg

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Can Toronto’s Fashion Industry Turn a New Leaf?

“It’s often said that Toronto lacks a fashion identity.” read more

Submitted: February 12, 2009 23:29:23pm in: Green Living/Sustainable Living
Author: MegO

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Raising kids into “Forest Citizens”: Get funky, go green, get active with kids

NFORM, a cleverly done series on taking apart everyday consumer items from an environmental point of view, looks at paper from a non-judgemental, “just the facts ma’am” and positive solutions point of view.

Here’s a fact from the video: if every U.S. household replaced just one roll of virgin fiber paper toilet paper with 100% recycled toilet read more

Submitted: January 26, 2009 11:57:55am in: Green Living/Sustainable Living, Waste (Solid) & Recycling
Author: olga

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13 Easy Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint around the House

Compost organic waste (food scraps) with a garden composter or a worm composter (if you live in an apartment). Decomposing organic waste generates Methane via anaerobic decomposition in a landfill. If you use a composter/worm composter, it produces CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) as a waste product. Methane (CH4) is 21 times more damaging than CO2 to the read more

Submitted: January 16, 2009 20:19:58pm in: Waste (Solid) & Recycling, Green Living/Sustainable Living, Energy, Climate Change & Your Carbon Footprint
Author: JackBoyle

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