Do What You Can is a great website to find out where in your area you can drop off all those items that don’t go in the green, blue, or black bins. Look by postal code, municipality, or item. This website is designed to help you find places to drop-off household hazardous and special wastes [...]
Archive for the ‘environment’ Category
Recycling Electronics and Other Hard-to-recycle Items
Posted in environment, tagged environment, recycle, resources, technology on June 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ottawa and Green Bins Will Meet this Fall
Posted in environment, tagged environment, ottawa on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was wondering when this might happen, and it looks as though this is year. The City of Ottawa is going to start distributing green bins to 22,000 households this fall and winter. They will start Green Bin pick ups next January (2010) — bi-weekly pickups in winter with weekly pickups the rest of the [...]
Sustainable Living and other resources
Posted in environment, tagged environment, green, resources on July 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
If you haven’t yet discovered PlanetFriendly.net, you may want to heck them out. They have all kinds of links and resources in areas of environment, sustainability, conservation, and other similar areas. One such resource is the Sustainable Living Guide, which “is all about sustainable living – activities and choices that can help sustain your health, [...]
Briarpatch wants to save the planet, one writer, artist, and thinker at a time
Posted in culture, environment, life, news, tagged action, global-economy, ideas on February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Big kudos to Briarpatch for tackling this issue! The global economy is weighing heavy on everyone, and it’s hard for many to see how to turn this into something positive. But Briarpatch is calling on the folks with the ideas. This worldwide recession can be a chance to think “about reorganizing our society and economy [...]
Earth Hour – March 28
Posted in environment, tagged earth-hour, ottawa on February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Earth Hour is an interesting notion to me. On one hand I think it is a great initiative. Right now, more than 500 cities around the world have signed up to turn their lights out for one hour. And that kind of project usually has lasting impact, as it gets everyone thinking about the issue. [...]
