Posts by Tai Munro

Tai is currently one of two CO2RE Coordinators. She works in the community on reducing carbon dioxide emissions through education, outreach, and incentives. In her spare time, she is also working towards her PhD, focusing on climate change education. With anything that is left, you'll find her outside with either camera or sports equipment in hand.

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I live in an old townhouse and I’m a renter so these two realities significantly restrict my ability to make energy efficiency improvements. But I keep working on it. My latest challenge was to make my windows more efficient. Both my living room and bedroom have south facing windows that are more than 3 meters [...]

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One of the interesting things about ecomobility (getting around via people powered options) is that many of the people who do it are not thinking about being more environmentally friendly. During the spring and summer I bike, inline skate, or walk as much as possible for three main reasons: it’s cheaper than either a car [...]

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What could be more Albertan than a snow storm hitting the city two days into my car free trial? What could be more frustrating than injuring my knee two weeks before I commit to going car free? But a little bit of snow wasn’t about to stop me (or the many other Edmontonians who kept [...]

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I have been attempting to function without using my car for almost two weeks now. Some things have been really easy; I don’t like to drive to work anyway given the convenience and lower cost of transit and the even lower cost of riding my bike. Already though there have been some challenges, like the [...]

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I spend a lot of time working with the Zerofootprint Edmonton Kids Calculator since it’s the focus of the school environmental program that I deliver. There is also an adult calculator that I don’t get to use as much. You can find the link to it on the side menu at www.edmonton.ca/ecovision. If you’re like [...]

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