By Serena Calder
| Image: Hilary Henegar, Serena Calder |
Published: August 30, 2010
Boosting public drinking fountains is one way Vancouver is helping to say “good-bye” to the plastic bottle
It’s a sunny afternoon and you’re walking along the Seawall when you realize you forgot your reusable water bottle. You’re thirsty, and faced with a choice: either stop at the concession stand up ahead to buy bottled water, or wander around nearby parks in search of a public drinking fountain that may or may not work.
By Emma Carscadden
| Image: Emma Carscadden |
Published: August 09, 2010
Save up for an unrainy day with an office grey water collector—they may not be pretty but they work beautifully
I’ve written before about a number of lovely options for rainwater collection—from
bucolic rainforest creations on Haida Gwaii, to
old-fashioned water towers, city-provided barrels and living walls. Still, after all that talk about how great rainwater collection is, we have been rainwater collection-less for a long time here at BCA.
By
Krista Eide
| Image:
Projecting Change |
Published: April 22, 2010
Vancouver’s third annual Projecting Change Film Festival opens local dialogue on global issues, April 22-25
By
Hilary Henegar
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The Story of Bottled Water |
Published: March 25, 2010
Viral video offers the straight goods on one of the most insidious marketing strategies of our time
By Chris White
| Image: iStock |
Published: March 15, 2010
Vancouver now boasts the purest tap water in the world—so why are you still drinking bottled?
With the completion of the Capilano-Seymour watersheds’ $600 million upgrades, officials in the region say they can now boast to having the highest quality tap water in the world.
By Guy Dauncey
| Image: Nitya Harris |
Published: March 15, 2010
Newly doubled SolarBC incentives make now a smart time for BC residents to invest in solar hot water
If you’ve been wondering about solar hot water but haven’t yet taken the plunge, now is a smart time to investigate it for your home because the
SolarBC incentives for solar hot water have just been doubled from $1,000 to $2,000 for a limited time offer.
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By Granville
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Published: October 29, 2009
It’s easy to lose track of time under the soothing downpour of a typical shower.
Bring your kitchen timer into the bathroom, set it for five minutes and rejoice in how much water – and time – you’ll save. (Then just for fun, work on getting it down to three minutes!)
By
Emma Carscadden
| Image:
Flickr / SamBeebe/Ecotrust |
Published: October 12, 2009
Guest blogger series:
Crawling Toward Sustainability
By Emma Carscadden
| Image: iStock |
Published: September 29, 2009
Guest blogger series:
Crawling Toward Sustainability
By
Kayla McColl
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sarboo |
Published: September 07, 2009
A week after the trip...
It's been less than a week since we completed our journey from the headwaters of the Fraser River to where it meets up with the ocean in Vancouver. And since being home in Quesnel and back to my normal life, I'm noticing things that I hadn't really paid attention to before. The first was just how grossly disposable our society is. On my drive home from Vancouver to Quesnel, I was shocked at how much packaging, bulky plastic and garbage was accumulated between myself, my mom and my sister. After just a couple stops for takeaway sushi, coffee and other road munchies, we had collected more garbage between the three of us in just one day than our group of fifteen had produced in the last five days! It felt awful.
