Rethinking Lifestyle

As I have said before: if you ask people which is more important, their job, the economy or the environment, most will say their job or the economy.

This finishes up our series profiling the political parties in their attitude toward sustainability and environment.

A couple of weeks ago, we watched a movie ‘we the tiny house people’ which looked at people living in small spaces by necessity or choice.

In the past few weeks I’ve profiled the Conservatives and NDP to show that conservation, sustainability, and environment are all essential to their values. Now, with the by-election only a few weeks away, I’ll profile the Liberal Party.

In my last column in preparation for the upcoming by-election, I profiled the Conservative party and argued that conservation and sustainability are core Conservative values, and that a true Tory is a Green Tory.

The past few weekends have been a busy time for me in the garden. With the inevitable approach of winter, I have been harvesting the last remaining vegetables, weeding our vegetable plot, raking leaves and layering on compost.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is that part of the UN that speaks to issues of climate change.

In the run-up to the federal by-election I will be profiling the four major parties in relation to their stance on sustainability.

News reports recently flagged the discovery of a huge aquifer under one of the driest parts of Kenya. ‘Enough water to supply the country for 70 years’ the Kenyan government reported.

On Monday, the Conservation and Water Stewardship Minister Gordon MacKintosh and Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz announced the methane gas collection system at the Brady Road Landfill was finally commissioned.