Environment

Every day thousands of Haligonians take their cars to work, all by themselves. The cars they drive can usually seat at least three others comfortably. Yet this lonely form of commuting remains the standard way to get from point A to point B. This inefficient form of transportation comes at a high cost for many […]

When it launches later this year, the Nissan Leaf will be the first automobile in Nova Scotia to not require an internal combustion engine. Even fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles—the Toyota Prius and GM’s Chevrolet Volt—require at least some gasoline to run. The Leaf, however, is completely electric. From the motor, to the air conditioning and the […]

If you’re still driving in a vehicle that was made in 1995 or earlier, guess what? It’s probably issuing 19 times more emissions than a vehicle made after 2004. Yep, that old Tercel that works “just fine” is actually one of the worst polluters on the road. Probably time to recycle it. It’s important to […]

Back in 2004, Metro Transit was touting its use of biodiesel as making a new era of sustainability for the city of Halifax. The fuel was made up of 20 percent fish oil and 80 percent diesel. “Moving to biodiesel has allowed HRM to replace 1,550,000 litres of non-renewable diesel fuel with a source that […]

Animal Bylaw A-300 allows for residents of the Halifax peninsula to keep rabbits, fish, lizards, birds, cats, dogs, snakes, spiders, and a veritable Noah’s ark of other creatures, great and small, as pets. But allus gallus domesticus, otherwise known as the common chicken, is species non-grata on the peninsula, and that has feathers flying among […]