Rethinking Lifestyle

Have you ever been frustrated with the weeds in your garden? Last summer we decided to wage a war on the quack grass, dandelions, and thistle by unleashing our secret weapon: five pigs!

No matter who you voted for in the federal election, I am sure you are watching with interest the new way in which the Trudeau government is operating.

The other day, soap was on my shopping list. I won’t mention the brand, but I bought a pack of 4 bars, each bar being packed in an individual box and the four boxes packed together with a printed plastic overwrap.

As many readers of this blog know, GreenSpace Options is an experimental site at the corner of First Street and Brandt Road.

In the waning days of the election campaign the Trans Pacific Partnership gained a lot of attention.

Traditional economic theory dictates that ultimately any business or corporation will be successful only if it can make a financial profit; that is, keep the bottom financial line in the black.

Regular readers of this Rethinking Lifestyles blog will know that it is written by members of a local organization called South Eastman Transition Initiative or SETI for short. For new readers I will explain what SETI is all about and what we do.

Inevitably election time is when politicians become particularly vocal in their assertions that “we are pro-development, but they are opposed to development.”

Do you actually read the mailings our incumbent MP has put in our mail boxes? No, I thought not, you put them straight into the recycling box – waste of money and resources eh?

On Saturday, I found myself thinking about Noah. According to the Book of Genesis in the Bible, God was unhappy with humanity’s misdeeds and planned to return the Earth to its pre-Creation state by flooding it.