Muskoka Watershed Council is hosting the 2018 Summit on the Environment! This year’s theme is Restoring our Relationship with the Natural World. The Summit will aim to understand and promote a variety of perspectives to examine how to bring ethics into our
Call of the Forest Film Review
Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees is the first film of 2018 in our Green Screen series. This Thursday at Uptown Theatre, join us for a film screening and conversation about the importance of the world’s forests.
Dams & Hydroelectric Power – or “Selling the Same Water 3-4 Times Over!”
Hydropower has an enviable reputation of being clean, green, and renewable. This was probably true of the earliest installations which ground flour, sawed wood, crushed various ores and treated woolen cloth (fulling mills). The earliest hydroelectric installations were “run-of-the-river”. They
The other end of the organic pipe
As Barrie slowly increases waste diversion, with measures like every-other-week trash collection, residents must keep up. And with spring weather finally approaching, composting resumes. In fact, I know at least 4 ways to compost. First is the traditional backyard method. Growing
Friends of the Environment
On Oct. 5, 2013 LG was happy to help out at TD’s Friends of the Environment tree planting at Lover’s Creek in Barrie. Dozens and dozens of energetic volunteers of all ages, from the very young, to the young at
Tracy Eby, Buff and Shine
When Tracy Eby returned to Canada from Taiwan, she knew she wanted to start an ecologically friendly business. The result of her desire is Buff and Shine, the residential cleaning service that was recently nominated for the Barrie Business Green
Community Partners
It’s a partnership in Barrie that’s making a huge difference for all of us. And it’s all about trees. Living Green Barrie, the City of Barrie, the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority, businesses and ordinary volunteers like you and I:
Climate Change and Insurance – Part One – personal lines
With the debate on anthropogenic ( caused by humans) climate change long since settled, it is time to move on to other questions, specifically why we are not doing more about it. Climate change denial has been relegated to a
Free fruit for everyone! Come and get it!
You look sadly at the apple tree in your yard. All summer you’ve watched fruit blossom, grow, and ripen. This week it’s ready, but you haven’t time to pick it all and it’s more than you could possibly eat, anyway.
Living Green’s Urban Canopy Climate Change and Fruit Share
A 100-page UN report points out that Climate Change is a global emergency that seriously threatens life, as we know it, for every human being on Earth. We are now facing a triple whammy-we have to pay to reduce greenhouse