On a lazy Wednesday night, a couple of volunteers from Seymour Green Organic Community Garden bring along plastic bags—there’s plenty of lettuce, perky and alert, ready to take home. The group chats, as some weed and others taste-test the produce. One volunteer crouches down to check beanstalks winding up a homemade wooden cage. A discussion […]
Environment
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Green machine
Hippies, granolas, eco-geeks, activists and other deviants once thought to scorn consumerism now make up one of the fastest-growing billion-dollar market demographics. According to Colorado-based market research company Natural Business Communications, this group spends upwards of US$230 billion a year and makes up one third of the American population. They’re called “Lohas,” a word coined […]
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Taking the wheel
Cynics beware: the Otesha Project is about to blow your made-in-China socks off. On May 1, 15 youth from across Canada (ages 19 to 33) will set out from Vancouver, BC, bound for Gander, NF. Over five months of travelling, the group will make presentations in schools, community centres and summer camps to more than […]
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Waves of support
The tidal wave that devastated the shores of southeast Asia was followed by a second wave of generosity from individuals who felt compelled to give, and from governments that followed. Those involved in social justice work in Halifax and across Canada are hoping that a third wave is yet to come; a wave that will […]
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Get your green on
Walk wherever you go Halifax is the best city in Canada for walking. Not the kind of walking people do with the dog or with swinging arms and a heart monitor or with a picnic basket and a lover. Actually, there’s a shortage of good leisure trails in HRM. But as far as walking to […]
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Tree’s a crowd
In my last year of minor hockey, playing in the aptly named juvenile division, the team went into the Christmas tree business as a fundraiser. Armed with axes, chain saws and home brew that could also come in handy starting frozen vehicles, we tramped into the woods and murdered about 30 spruce. We whacked down […]
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When a tree falls
Considering the size and weight, the oak tree that fell on my neighbour’s house at the height of Hurricane Juan landed softly, settling on the roof and bending gutters, but causing little other destruction. My neighbour is a handy-man type of guy, and the gutters will be repaired and replaced in a short Saturday afternoon. […]
