In the Living Green section we explore how to live a sustainable life. Under Eco Shelter we look at the design on construction of Green Buildings and how to create and maintain a Healthy Homes. Under Green Thumbs we explore not only Organic Gardening but also creating truly sustainable living environments in Permaculture. Under Food For Thought we examine the issues surrounding what we eat. We look at how we grow our food under Sustainable Agriculture, the abundance of edible wild foods in Wild Crafting, How to preserve our food for later consumption in Putting It Up. The health advantages of a fresh Whole Food Diet and the environmental advantages of a local diet. We also look at all the systems that contribute to creating and maintaining total and Natural Health. We examine Eco Energy and Eco Transport solutions and under Urban Solutions we explore the greening of our towns and cities.
In Waste Not we help you reduce, reuse, repair, recycle and rethink our way to a sustainable future. In Green Gear we let you know about new and innovative green products that can make our life healthier and more sustainable. This section can also help you expand your eco awareness through Eco Education and Eco Tourism . And after we talk about all the great things we can do, we show you How To Do It! That is what living green is all about.
In Waste Not we help you reduce, reuse, repair, recycle and rethink our way to a sustainable future. In Green Gear we let you know about new and innovative green products that can make our life healthier and more sustainable. This section can also help you expand your eco awareness through Eco Education and Eco Tourism . And after we talk about all the great things we can do, we show you How To Do It! That is what living green is all about.
How an inner-city kid is becoming a farmer
Written by Adam Mohammed Thursday, 22 April 2010 01:23
There exists in Canada and about 90 or so other countries chapters of an organization called WWOOF, which stands for either ‘Willing Workers On Organic Farms’ or ‘World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms’ depending where you are. In each place, it is a networking organization of sorts: WWOOF-Canada is a database of 4-500 rural households who take in interns/apprentices on a transient basis. On par wwoof-hosts ask for a 30-40 hour-work-week in exchange for meals, housing, the opportunity to learn ecological gardening and farming techniques hands-on, and the value of being out in the countryside or small towns with tonnes of fresh air. Wwoofers, people who enter into these usually unpaid arrangements, spend anywhere from a 4 days to 8 months on individual wwoof-farms; time-commitments vary depending on the wwoof-host and the wwoofer. Some of these places are real commercial farms; some are other types of rural homesteads which have on-site food production but are not “farms” per se.
I have gone out on two wwoof “circuits”: in the time period of mid-January to early-March 2006 I was in New Zealand and spent 6 weeks total on 5 different properties; and more recently I spent two-and-a-half months in the summer of 2009 on 6 wwoof farms across southern Ontario, strung out between Ottawa and Guelph. During my first experience wwoofing I was pretty new to gardening/farming, and wasn’t even really sure if it was my niche; half my reason for wwoofing around NZ was as a way to travel around that country cheaply. I learnt much about permaculture / ecologically-informed food-growing, and had such a fun time hanging out in the country that in ’06 I knew I would have to wwoof again.
Understanding Disease
Written by Raymond Francis Saturday, 17 April 2010 13:51
In my book Never Be Sick Again, I outlined a new model of health based on the revolutionary concept of one disease. As varied and complex as "diseases" appear to be, all disease is the result of malfunctioning cells. Cellular malfunction is then the one disease. Modern medicine believes there are thousands of diseases, but viewing all diseases as one presents a profound opportunity-the opportunity to take the mystery out of disease and to gain power over it.
The enormous pandemic of chronic and degenerative disease sweeping the world today is characterized by complex neuro-immuno-hormonal-gastrointestinal dysfunction. Complexity aside, all disease occurs at the molecular and cellular level, and we now know that virtually all disease has common causes and common solutions.
There is only one disease and there are only two causes of disease: deficiency and toxicity. Cells lacking what they need or exposed to something harmful will malfunction. Unless cells malfunction, there can be no disease. The thousands of different diseases we experience are merely the effects of thousands of combinations of deficiencies and toxicities acting through a combination of inherited genes, the environment, and our beliefs, thoughts, and emotions. Preventing or reversing disease is about preventing and reversing cellular malfunction.
Litterless Lunches
Written by Laura Gray Thursday, 01 April 2010 00:01
Eco-Wise Gardening
Written by Laura Gray Wednesday, 31 March 2010 23:39
For those who love to garden, this quote will resonate in your mind as it did in mine after hearing it for the first time at a recent seminar presented by Mark Cullen. Gardeners – whether expert or beginner, take pride in their hard work and successes and find peace in the beauty of their gardens.
The beauty of a flowering garden and the function of a kitchen garden are emphasized by the care and attention they are given. By providing your garden with organic and all-natural methods and treatments, you are keeping in line with its true intensions. You are prospering in a healthy garden for the environment and with kitchen gardens, providing your family with safe, healthy and delicious food.
Ontario's Feed-In Tariff: A Primer
Written by Christina Vasilevski Wednesday, 24 February 2010 22:54
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