Green Halifax

Our need for coffee is a huge burden on the environment. Setting aside the energy expended to get the beans to us here in Atlantic Canada, there’s also the issue of all those disposable cups. With a Timmy’s on every corner, it’s easy to point the finger at the popular coffee shop chain, especially as […]

The question is simple, and it’s one of culture, heritage and health, both of the environment and of ourselves: How badly do we want to save our local agricultural producers? Enough to demand our local grocery outlets stock food produced by Nova Scotian farmers? Enough to make a conscious decision to change our buying and […]

The first step for anyone buying a new house is to insulate it and make it as energy-efficient as possible, before you choose solar or what have you. There are two non-profits that serve this part of the province and that do energy audits for the EnerGuide program:EnerGuide assessments are offered by the following organizations:Clean […]

The HRM currently recycles Two kinds of plastic. If you look on the bottom of your containers, it’s the #1 (PETE, Polyethylene Terephthalate) and #2 (HDPE, High Density Polyethylene), traditionally the make-up of 2-litre beverage bottles, trash bags, milk jugs, etc. The HRM does not recycle #3-#7 plastic: food wrap, yogurt containers, shampoo bottles, straws, […]

“It began as an idea, of course,” says Bob Kenney, solid waste-resource analyst for the provincial department of Environment and Labour, talking about the province’s new e-waste redirection program, the first phase of which began in February of this year. It includes televisions, computers and printers. The second phase, beginning in February 2009, will include […]

We’re a lucky bunch. Though the more ecological amongst us may yearn for the kind of city cycle programs that exist in places such as Copenhagen and Paris living in Halifax we do have a multitude of ways we can diminish the emissions billowing out of the exhaust pipes of our cars and trucks. There’s […]