Editorial: Being Canadian
Take some responsibility and remember, we’re the most inventive, compassionate and toughest bastards on the planet and you live the greatest life in the greatest country.
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Our Gordon Lightfoot Died Today
I faked not being intimidated and we had a great conversation.
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Top 10 Reasons to Not Rake Your Lawn – Yet
… we can contribute to biodiversity and enhance our experience with nature simply by easing up on our pursuit of yard perfection until the end of May.
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Sustainable Orillia’s Student Art Contest
Joni Mitchell’s iconic song Big Yellow Taxi underscored the point you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. Mitchell also sang, “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”
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Orillia’s Climate Future: Year Two
The success of the clear garbage bag conversion is a testament to our ability to make these changes; ditto for the whole-scale conversion to reusable shopping bags taking place right now at virtually all of our retail outlets.
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More Under The Sky
Will the people of Orillia, of Ontario, of Canada, of the world—take up this challenge? Do we really want to imagine the world that will result if we don’t?
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A Book Reveiw
Nicholas’s epiphany about her own culpability first surfaced at a conference she was attending in Vienna in 2012.
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Ontario’s Climate Change Report Card
Most distressing, given the urgency that so many around the world say is needed, is the waste of five years of opportunity to take the actions the world and its young people are expecting from governments at all levels.
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So What Does this COP 27 Thing Mean Anyway?
A second piece of good news from the conference was an agreement by 150 countries to reduce methane emissions by at least 30% by 2030.
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