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EPIC: The Vancouver Sun Sustainable Living Expo 2008

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April 18 – 20, 2008

MARK YOUR CALENDAR!


EPIC: The Vancouver Sun Sustainable Living Expo is Vancouver’s largest green consumer show and eco-marketplace. Visit EPIC to learn about environmentally-friendly products and companies that mix style and quality with sustainability.  

Greening
your life is easy – all you need is a little education and inspiration.
EPIC has lots of both. Join us for this three day celebration of green
living, and surround yourself with truly inspiring people and
environmentally innovative products.

Learn how to live
a healthier, more sustainable life from experts in everything from eco
travelling to green weddings. Reveal your inner treehugger and spend
the day shopping in our marketplace of over 200 organizations offering
the latest green products that are earth-friendly, ethically sourced,
and better for your health. Let EPIC inspire you to ‘Shop and Th!nk‘.

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Green is in. Let’s keep it there

Here’s your weekly Science Matters column by David Suzuki with Faisal Moola.

Welcome to 2008. If you had told me at the beginning of last year that
2007 would be the breakout year for the environment, I probably
wouldn’t have believed you. Yes, 2006 had An Inconvenient Truth, but
2007 saw the environment become a true media darling.

As
great as this has been, we mustn’t forget that news is a fickle beast
and, by definition, “new” doesn’t last very long. That means we need to
keep the interest moving forward or we could lose the momentum we’ve
built up.

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Geothermal: The dark horse of renewable energy

Geothermal energy is clean, quiet, virtually inexhaustible and able to meet world’s annual electricity and heating needs many times over with little impact on the climate or the environment. In many jurisdictions, geothermal energy is emerging as a reliable and affordable alternative to fossil fuels. This fourth article in the GLOBE-Net series on renewable energy discusses the dark horse of renewables.

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