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I like the dark. I mean real dark, not the ambient glow of the city. When it’s dark I’ve seen bats, owls, and flying squirrels, meteor showers, the Northern Lights, and the constellations. I used to lead nighttime hikes in the river valley and the hardest thing was to convince people they didn’t need their [...]
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Last year at this time I was busy planning for Earth Hour. My friends and I had been talking about having a dessert potluck and Earth Hour seemed like a good opportunity. I emailed out the invites, cleaned the apartment, got out the board games – after all if you are going to turn out [...]
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It’s not quite spring in Edmonton yet, but it’s getting close enough that some of us are starting to dream about warmer weather and the popular warmer weather pastime of home improvement. When you are renovating it is important to think of energy efficiency; it can save you money, increase the resale value of your [...]
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As thoughts of the Olympics dance in my head I find myself wondering if competition to be the greenest will ever become as popular as competition to be the fastest. I recently read about how, now that the world’s former tallest building, Taipei 101, has been outdone, the owners are now going to spend billions [...]
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I remember being a kid bouncing on a rebounder. At least that’s what my family called it. It was basically a mini trampoline. I had never heard of the rebound effect at that time but today it is an important issue in all our efforts to mitigate climate change. Basically, the rebound effect is when [...]
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