Teaching Your Children Environmental Awareness When You Don’t Have a Backyard

Gardening is one of the best ways to teach your children about the environment. They can discover how plants grow from a seed, thus understanding the origins of the food they eat. It is alarming how many small children believe that fruits and vegetables are made at the grocery store. Exposing a child to gardening […]

4 Ways to Teach Kids How to Save the Environment

  Kids playing soccer photographed by Susan Lloyd.   Nowadays, children are kept busy with school and extracurricular activities. Between math class and ballet lessons, there may not be much time to teach them about environmental action. But we all know that kids are curious about everything, from what makes plants grow to what happens […]

Production Follows Values

Topics: Bees Companies with the same ideals end up sinking their roots into the same soil, not in competition but in mutually nourishing coexistence. These groups work together to promote a healthy ecosystem. When we’re talking about environmental organizations, “healthy ecosystem” isn’t just a metaphor. Photo via Edible Cleveland. Timothy Riffle of HIVE and COOP […]

Canada: Raw Sewage into Ocean

As the world moves towards establishing new standards of waste water treatment, especially in the urban areas, Canada has no such standards. As a result, some cities of Canada have state-of-the-art sewage treatment plants where the others have none. Canada flushes out 200 billion liters of its sewage into the ocean directly, untreated, raising the […]