Environment
Time to turf the turf
Some people want to see their kids off grass (aka marijuana). But there’s also a movement underfoot to get our yards off grass.
Stories by Ginny Colling
Environment
Putting the brakes on climate breakdown starts with this election
Crunch time. For students, that can mean exams. For teachers, report card deadlines. For accountants, tax season. For all of us, collectively, the stress test of meeting our climate targets.
Environment
Excuse us, we're gassy
When my husband retired, he needed a project and our house needed an energy upgrade.
Opinion Columns
Is it really cheaper to replace it?
Say you have a budget for the year and spend everything you have in seven months. Then, to get by, you rack up credit card debt.
Opinion Columns
Bye bye chocolate?
No more heart-shaped boxes of chocolates? No more heartwarming hot cocoa?
Environment
Pair up in threes for the environment
It was déjà vu all over again, to quote famous New York Yankee Yogi Berra.
Environment
Me and my EV
When my mother was 96 she watched Al Gore’s second climate documentary, An Inconvenient Sequel. “Ginny,” she said, “I didn’t know things were so bad. What can I do?”
Environment
The Christmas gift challenge
When my daughter was nine, she failed to write her usual letter to Santa in September. Then, one month before the big day, she announced, “I want Santa to bring me a white costume like the one Victoria the cat wears in Cats.”
Opinion Columns
Omitting emitting is good for what ails us
Imagine you’re in a game show, facing two doors. Behind door No. 1 is a gas-powered car, engine running. Behind door No. 2 is an identical electric car, also running. To win your choice of car you must spend two hours inside the hermetically-sealed room with that running vehicle. Now the choice becomes life or death.
Environment
What’s gardening got to do with it?
I have a confession to make. I’ve never really been a gardener. Indoors or out, plants come to my home at their peril. Even a cactus isn’t safe in my care. But I’m passionate about helping the environment, so if anything was going to get me digging in the dirt it was learning that dirt helps sequester carbon. And that gardeners can help it store even more.
Opinion Columns
Climate emergency – a burning issue
"My concern came in hearing of that new Canadian temperature record in Lytton , 49.6 C, a heat usually associated with Jacobabad, Pakistan, one of the hottest places on the planet."
