Rethinking Lifestyle

When I resisted getting wet as a child, my mother used to say that I wasn’t made of sugar, so I would be alright.

Finally, after a cool and wet spring, we have arrived at the summer picnic season!

The advent of more efficient electric lights ought to be hailed as a great step forward for energy conservation, since lighting consumes a hefty 6.5 percent of the world’s energy supply.

I find critical thinking, particularly about the way I live and the life choices I make, inherently uncomfortable.

Twenty years, in terms of our planet, is a drop in the bucket; but in terms of the way we humans change our world, and change the way we interact with it and with each other, twenty years holds an awful lot of change.

Interest in gardening in the South East is growing. Participants in last week’s Urban Organic Gardening Workshop in Steinbach shared information and ideas on a wide range of topics related to gardening.

In an article, “The Corporation As Psychopath,” Michael Jessen states, “Our economic system will eventually change. As currently structured, the system is unsustainable for both people and the planet.”

Recently a class of bright-eyed Grade 2 students met me at the community garden. They came to check out the plot they will be seeding this spring.