Green Halifax

Last year we spoke to Darren Welner—sales and marketing coordinator for Scotia Recycling, the largest recycling business in the province—about a trial project to recycle Tim Hortons cups. As an update to that piece, he reports the Yarmouth trial run had positive results: Cups were successfully processed and their constituent fibres were found to be […]

Items like CFL’s were already off the list when we put together last year’s Green Halifax guide. As P’lover’s co-owner Liz Crocker told us: “When we opened, we sold compact fluorescent lightblubs. Now you can get them everywhere.” This year we’re more stringent. There are plenty of practices and behaviors we’ll acknowledge, but aren’t worthy […]

The first page of the Wolfville municipal website shows the importance the town of a little under 4,000 puts on being ecologically sustainable. Along with the budget planning notifications and community services guide is a column dedicated to green initiatives: A green mobility forum meeting and a town council sustainable community planning task force unveiling […]

One of the most prominent pro-cycling organizations in Halifax, the approximately 200 members of the HCC take their two-wheeled transit seriously. Steve Bedard, director of education and advocacy for the group, says the membership even includes people who don’t own bicycles but are “interested in taking steps to ensure Halifax is planned in a more sustainable […]

In January 2008, Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change, made headlines when he asked the world to cut back on meat consumption, pointing to UN-based research that shows the production of livestock is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than all forms of transportation combined. The plea was […]

Nova Scotia Community College: What you pack in, you pack out at the Dartmouth Waterfront campus of NSCC. There are no garbage cans in the classrooms just a recycling container. There is a reason for this. With a new school progressive ideas follow. Two students at the campus, Jennifer Hynick and Tanya Massey, both licensed […]

In an article published in a 2007 issue of the Air Canada in-flight magazine enRoute, their food critics put together a list of positive trends in the food industry. Next to the environmental benefits of blackboard menus, they listed the return of tap water as a great thing, saving them from having to spend money […]

What has changed since last year? That was the main question when we began planning this second edition of Green Halifax, a guide to sustainable and environmental living. The answer: lots. We’re in a recession. The good work local businesses are doing to exercise their ecological conscience is now so much harder. But the need […]