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Diary of a Torchbearer (part two)
Posted on 01. Feb, 2010 by Bernice Paul.
OLYMPICS UPDATE
So what does it feel like to carry the torch? Expectations exceeded – vastly.
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Vancouver: Trash Talkin’
Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by Bernice Paul.
The Clean Bin Project documents a year of living zero-waste
On a dark and rainy Vancouver evening, I paid a visit to the trio behind the Clean Bin Project. Jenny Rustemeyer, Rhyannon O’Heron and Grant Baldwin are housemates who more than a year ago decided they’d simply had enough of ”stuff.” They also realized that if [...]
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West Coast Air Makes It to Zero
Posted on 18. Jan, 2010 by Bernice Paul.
Here in lush, green B.C., the transportation sector accounts for more than a third of the province’s provincial greenhouse gas emissions. Passenger and heavy duty vehicles take the lion’s share of those emissions, with 39 and 26 per cent, respectively. And domestic aviation claims just 7 per cent of the transportation sector’s emissions, though there are, of course,opportunities to cut those


