I was inspired to write this blog after recently leading cooking projects that had a “Local Food” theme. Currently, local food is a controversial topic. Therefore, my goal with this blog is to shed light on the issue and provide as holistic of a perspective as possible, not state my opinion. Please note: Most of…
Once again, as I was browsing YouTube, this video was recommended to me: It reminded me of the bleak, and inevitable prospect of climate change. It was frightening, how drastically, yet easily this world could collapse and transform. This daunting fact was stated by the video I discovered, and it encompasses a grand sense of…
About a month ago, the Keg replaced their plastic straws with a plant-based straw in an effort to minimize plastic waste. A restaurant in Banff, Magpie and Stump, is following the #StrawsSuck campaign and serving all drink without straws. Even Starbucks has planned to eliminate all plastic straws from their stores by 2020. Vancouver and…
Late last month, the city of Turin, Italy, made waves when recently elected mayor Chiara Appendino, declared the city the first in Europe to take on a meat-reduction agenda. Appendino’s campaign strives to promote a vegetarian lifestyle in order to reduce the city’s environmental impact and improve the overall health of Turin’s citizens. However, as a…
Imagine yourself cheerfully living your life without producing any garbage whatsoever, in your house and outside. Furthermore, imagine yourself creating your own homemade, chemical-free, hygienic and cleaning products, including makeup, shampoos, and toilet cleaners, with the comfort of knowing that you aren’t polluting the world. The zero waste, or waste-free, lifestyle is defined by…
No, it’s not IB summer school (ohgoodnessno) – it’s a week-long stay at Beautiful (University of) British Columbia to meet fellow IB-ers and talk about sustainability! The IB World Student Conference is held at 4 campuses this year, and we’re lucky enough to have one in the province next door! The week is full of…
Whether you’re a self-proclaimed tree-hugger or just looking to try something new – come down to Green Youth Gathering 2013! WHO: For Calgary youth, run by Youth Central’s TD Earth Ambassadors! Get inspired by youth social entrepreneurs from SimplySolar, get involved with the Nature Conservancy, and get dirty with the Calgary Horticultural Society (hurhurhur). WHAT: a beautiful…
I found this quite a powerful image – instead of being provided facts about pollution, we get to look under the ocean for ourselves and see what is actually masked under the waves.
On Saturday the 14th, the best youth poets in the city gathered to SLAM in the Sustainable Poetry Youth SLAM at the Public Library. The competition was the first of many poetry-related events hosted by the 2012 Spoken Word Festival in Calgary as part of Youth Week Calgary 2012. As the MC for the event,…
In Canada, consumers spend over $1.6 trillion each year on their purchases. In all of North America, we spend $26.4 trillion per year. That’s a pretty big economy! And to help you(th) navigate it, I’ve put together a short guide and set of resources. This is a three-part series featuring 7 areas of consumerism…
Recent news: on July 4, Canada Safeway has announced that by 2015, it plans to only sell sustainably-farmed seafood. I must confess that the news, when I first heard it, made me feel something like this: Safeway’s promise puts it in the company of many other major supermarket chains that have committed to selling nothing…
Believe it or not, you’re wrong if you say that Earth has six billion people. It’s about time you round up. The CIA has estimated that the population of the world will be 6,928,198,253 this coming July. Try reading that out loud, it’s quite shocking. It’s just an issue that no one really pays attention…