Rethinking Lifestyle

Most of the time we find ourselves preoccupied with personal and local issues with reference to developing sustainable lifestyles.

The Manitoba government recently gave notice that it is leaning toward banning the use of pesticides for cosmetic purposes.

Canada has become an energy giant – at least this is what Wikipedia says. According to the US Energy Information Administration, Canadian oil reserves are the second largest in the world.

When in doubt, proceed with caution! When an input is scarce, use it sparingly! To my way of thinking, these are two core conservative values.

Meat! I like meat. I also like eggs, cheese and other milk products. Meat, eggs, milk and plants contain amino acids that form proteins.

You may not have noticed. Today we do not treat medical infections the way we treated those twenty years ago.

Had someone asked me five years ago to describe the organic food industry, I would have placed organic food production somewhere on the fringe.

Okay, maybe not everything. But what if some of our core beliefs about how the world works turn out to be seriously flawed?

Penguin Canada recently released a biography of Tommy Douglas, one volume of their Extraordinary Canadians series.

A series of columns on home design and home heating with a view to energy efficiency would not be complete without a discussion of the potential wood has for heating our homes.