Rethinking Lifestyle

Joining the Natural Systems Agriculture team in its annual field day at Carman, has, in recent years, become one of my summer activities. I look forward to this event.

As a group of us sat at GreenSpace Options last week for our Green Drinks discussion, surveying our different grass management treatments, we were approached by a Steinbacher who had his own views on lawncare.

One of the biggest barriers to sustainable living is a house that just isn’t designed for it.

It is hard not to hear the alarm bells ringing in California because of its persistent drought, now in its fourth year.

The new SCU building is about to open, Steinbach City Council is in the midst of planning for a much expanded recreation centre, and we, the public, have just been able to participate in an open house to discuss these facility concepts.

There have been quite a few posts recently in this blog and on the SETI website about waste. This is another but with a slightly different angle.

GreenSpace Options is an experimental site at the corner of First Street and Brandt, managed by the South Eastman Transition Initiative.

This weekend, I put in some sweat equity in my garden, and was rewarded with a large pile of ‘black gold’ – compost, about a yard of it. What’s more, it was free!

Two events have been in the news this past few weeks that highlight why Canada is falling further and further behind in addressing the environmental problems caused by poor regulation of the use of natural resources.

Despite the apparent temporary return of winter in recent days, our yards are starting to turn green, and bags of yard waste from spring tidying have begun appearing at the curb for pick up on garbage day.