Science

We work really hard in our household to reduce trash.  We try to avoid products with too much packaging; repurpose when possible and recycle meticulously.  Yet in spite of our best efforts, the trash we do end up producing is dominated by one category: packaging.

If you’re the lone voice in your household advocating for greater sustainability, things can get pretty frustrating. But it doesn’t have to be that way.  There’s an art to persuading people amicably, and it can be learned. 

We all have to eat – but most of us could greatly reduce the carbon footprint of our diets by simply wasting less.

I have a love-hate relationship with air conditioning.  Love, because it’s cool comfort on a hot day; but hate because of the trade-off it represents.  Air conditioners consume a ton of energy in buildings and vehicles, resulting in an enormous amount of emissions.

Here’s a graphic worth sharing and putting on your fridge: a chart of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2021.

Virtually everything in our world relies on energy: transportation, heating, cooling, food production, manufacturing, the internet and much more.