This election was a resounding victory for climate action. Americans were presented with the clearest choice yet on global warming, and they chose the presidential candidate who confronted the climate threat, not the one who turned it into a punch line. Voters made the same choice in Congressional races across the country. They overwhelmingly…
The Plastic Free Pledge Everyone Can Take!
Americans alone use and throw out 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour or over sixty million every single day. Six to ten million tons of plastic end up in our oceans every year, choking the life out of sea creatures. Millions of seabirds are dying from ingesting this plastic. In the Pacific Ocean, the great…
Metro Vancouver Recycle Ap – itunes Store
Metro Vancouver just launched a free new iPhone app to help people keep resources out of their trash. Check out weRecycle on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/werecycle/id502866356?mt=8 With weRecycle all you have to do is enter a material and hit search. You’ll get a list of the closest donation and recycling facilities and a Google map that uses…
20 “Green” tips for Fall
Check the air pressure in your tires. Cooler temperatures lower tire pressure and that, in turn, lowers fuel efficiency. So check your tires and make sure that they are properly inflated. Clean and test the furnace. Did you know that your furnace needs cleaning? Yep … it collects all kinds of dust and debris which…
Edible Garden Project (EGP)
This rocks and every city should be offering a program like this! The EGP maintains food gardens on a variety of public and private spaces. As their programs grows, they will be looking for additional garden space. If you have garden space that you do not use, the EGP may want to come and…
Royal City Farmer’s Market
New Westminster’s fabulous market is back at Tipperary Park at 4th and Royal. It runs every Thursday from 3-7pm. The Royal City Farmers Market Association is a non-profit association dedicated to making a Farmers Market in New Westminster a success. Their mission is to connect with our heritage of having a vibrant city market, the…
Brace yourself for a bad spring allergy season
It’s that time of year again when seasonal allergies take off. Sneezing, itchy watery eyes, runny nose, blocked-up sensation are just a few of the symptoms. Seasonal allergies are typically caused by pollen and mould spores in the air. If you have an allergy, your body sees the pollen as a foreign substance and…
Spring Gardening
I think Spring is almost here….well, almost! Here are a few tips from Mark Cullen, a best selling author, and the host of “Gardening Tips with Mark” on CTV’s Canada AM: Start With a Plan. Make a list of the things you want to accomplish with your garden: Do you want to do a…
The Trash Talkers need your help!
Download Trash Tracking Form here: NWEP tracking The Trash Talkers are a group of NWEP volunteers who found they are spending too much time talking about solid waste and decided to do something about it. Rallying together during the 2009-2010 consultations around the Metro Vancouver Solid Waste Resource Management Plan, effectively lobbying the…
Creating new things from Scraps!
Breathe new life into old objects and reduce landfill waste by diverting leftover odds and ends that would be relegated to the dumpster into useful items. Call it repurposing, call it recrafting, call it creative reuse, or call it trash transformed. No matter what you call it, this concept of “cradle to cradle” is…
glenbrookzerowaste.wordpress.com 