Sure to appeal to Star Trek enthusiasts and serious students of leadership alike, Make It So is the most exciting business book on the shelves — the one book that shows the future of modern leadership while giving managers the tools they need for success today!
In these pages you’ll find descriptions and manufacturer contact information for more than 1,400 environmentally preferable products and materials from ag-fiber panels to zero-VOC paints. All phases of residential construction, from sitework to flooring to renewable energy, are covered.
Greenpeace activists peacefully protested Kleenex maker (Kimberly-Clark’s) largest US tissue paper facility to draw attention to the company’s role in … Continue reading Protect the boreal forest – Tell Kimberly-Clark to stop turning ancient trees into toilet paper
As American evangelical Christian leaders, we recognize both our opportunity and our responsibility to offer a biblically based moral witness … Continue reading Call to action on climate change – Evangelical Christians take responsibility for stewardship
The Centre for Sustainable Community Development offers financial services and resources to Canadian municipal governments to improve environmental performance and … Continue reading The Centre for Sustainable Community Development
Affordability and Choice Today (ACT) encourages regulatory reform in Canadian municipalities that leads to greater housing affordability, choice and quality. Since 1990, ACT projects have provided solutions and lessons learned that contribute to advancing sustainable development through alternative development standards, design guidelines, infill housing, secondary suites, conversion of office buildings to residential and more.
Mayor Gordon Van Tighem of the City of Yellowknife presented the Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of Natural Resources, with a … Continue reading A community energy plan for Yellowknife supported by $110,000 from the Green Municipal Fund
Strathcona County Councillor Ken Lesniak, representing the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), and Rob Merrifield, MP (Yellowhead), representing the Honourable … Continue reading GMF funds for the Hinton Eco-Industrial Park
Science Matters by David Suzuki
Most of us are all too aware of what it?s like to live in financial debt, but what about ecological debt?
On October 9th, according to the Global Footprint Network, humanity went into ecological debt for the year, where demand for resources and the production of waste outpaced the planet?s capacity to produce new resources and absorb those wastes. In other words, we ceased to live off the ecological services provided by the planet and started consuming the ecosystems themselves.
At the beginning of this year, Zane Parker moved to 10 acres of land in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver … Continue reading Lichenology: Thinking about policy, language, community, art…and lichen
Tomorrow and Thursday, October 17 and 18, are the final public hearings of the Provincial Government Continue reading Take Action on open-net pen salmon farming!
Addressing all climates, this is a perfect resource for conventional homeowners, as well as architects and remodeling contractors
Continue reading “Green Remodeling: Changing the World One Room at a Time”
