Chandler's dog, Willy

We went to Ikea on the way home from Chandler Swain’s house, where I had just purchased two lovely hand-crafted pottery bowls. Chandler Swain is my favourite potter. She lives and works out of a charming little house near Almonte. It is my dream to go stay in Chandler’s B&B one summer [...]

Concerned citizens from around Africa and the globe have gathered in Durban South Africa to “Occupy Cop17″, as hopes for a global agreement to address the climate crisis fades.  As part of Occupy COP17, participants chanted “down wit…

Dear Readers; Left wing environmentalists……, the same one’s that hug trees, love animals, take a bike to work, are probably vegetarians, or worse yet, vegans, drink green tea and recycle everything including their non-green friends, have managed to put the Keystone pipeline on hold until after next years U.S. election. (The timing seems to be [...]

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At a time when corporations’ misdeeds are under a bright spotlight (and rightfully so,) we needn’t overlook the few companies that are working to bring innovation a…

This new bicycle sports a built in dynamo-powered USB port to charge your gadgets while you ride.

Finding The Planet Traveler Hostel is incredibly easy, even for a small town chump such as myself. It’s located between two awesome and eclecticToronto neighbourhoods, Little Italy & Kensington Market. Rising slightly higher than the nearby buildings, a grid of solar panels points toward the sky, gathering light to feed the bowels of this building. [...]

Get Eco-Friendly at The Planet Traveler – North America’s Greenest Hostel is a post from: I Backpack Canada

Canada has a storied maritime history, but our coastal waters will play an even more important role in the future, too, as tidal power starts going commercial around the globe.

Dear Readers: Due to suggested environmental damage to the Ontario landscape, the Perspective on Canada research department has done an extensive study of the pro’s and cons of wind power. Aside from the low frequency hum from the blades, another dangerous side effect has been exposed! Just another reason to “BAN WIND TURBINES!”

Dear Readers; Time to knock David Suzuki off his pedestal again. I wish we had a time machine so that we could shoot him back about 200 years just to see what living without oil and electricity would be like! Being ecologically conscious is one thing, but joining the Mennonites is a horse of a [...]

Dear Readers; Greenpeace and the tree huggers are out in force again and this time it’s about that pipeline they are building from the Oil Sands down to the U.S. Gulf Coast. Most of their beef is pure left wing bullshit, but there is one point where they make good sense. Where the pipeline runs. [...]

Hey people in Ontario, if you can vote you should vote! Things Are Good supports anybody you want to vote for except the Tea Conservative Party. Vote for the Ontario you want to see, vote with hope and optimism. Vote for a party that will actually make…

Keep your tablet safe and charged with Voltaic Systems’ stylish solar powered case.

There was much back and forth Wednesday in Question Period on the Canadian Environment Department’s plans to cut ozone monitoring. Peter Kent, the Minister of the Environment, argued that the monitoring will continue, but will merely be carried out mor…

Australian transportation planner Paul Mees has good news for people who want real action on global warming — good quality transit is within reach even in the suburbs. But they might have to participate in a revolt against something as reasonable soun…

This fast charging, portable battery pack can power a modern workstation for two to three days.

The issue of gay-straight alliances in Catholic schools in Ontario has heated up again, this time in the Toronto Catholic District School Board, which voted this week to place denominational rights above other rights in implementing the provincial equi…

Your smartphone’s camera has a lot of practical uses — from scanning QR codes to capturing information from business cards. Up next: boosting your vehicle’s fuel economy.

Dear Readers; Since I am involved in the green energy industry, (solar power) it bothers me no end that here in Canada the presumption of a person’s guilt or innocence is ‘innocent until proven guilty,’ while in the case of wind turbines the opposite is true! Yes, that’s right, ‘guilty until proven innocent!’ Read this article [...]

Dear Readeers; O.K. Green means going natural, but this guy has taken it a step too far! REGINA – A Regina man who ran partially naked through city hall wants to run provincially for the Green Party in the November election. Several years ago Brendan Cross started his own political party, the now-defunct First Nations [...]

Canadian politicians know well enough to avoid hot buttons like religion or tax hikes. So why then is Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak trash talking one of the biggest motherhood-and-apple-pie issues of the last decade – green energy? With wind turbines sprouting like white mushrooms across the Ontario landscape and solar panels cropping up [...]