Hollywood actress does the discarded food scrap diet. Would you try it? Academy Award winning actress Ellen Page (Inception, X-Men, Juno) took off to Oregon in between films to study more natural forms of living than what she found in the glitz and glam of Hollywood. The young actress studied [...]

A Vancouver lab just cracked the code behind the gene jigsaw that makes up the white spruce tree, according to the Canadian Press for a Metro News exclusive. The tree is a Canadian goldmine for environmental science. And just a goldmine. As one of the primary species used for Canadian [...]

The Pressure’s on: Will Vancouver Be Greenest City by 2020? You can almost hear Mayor Robertson’s pressured gulp echoing against the city’s North-facing mountains. A Toronto-based media and research company for clean capitalism just ranked Vancouver 4th, cushioned behind Ottawa at 2nd and just ahead of Toronto at 5th in [...]

If you have a Kindle, check out this free edition of The Ultimate Dandelion Cookbook from Amazon, with 148 recipes that use the very same dandelions pulled from your backyard. Most people are perturbed by these pesky summertime weeds, but dandelions can be handy –and delicious- if you just know [...]

With fewer bees to pollinate fruits and vegetables each year, ‘beemageddon’ may soon cause the collapse of the agriculture industry. –My Science Academy Help dissuade Beemageddon! It is well-known that we have long been nearing the collapse of our current food system with the concurrent collapse of bee colonies around [...]

Scientists have located a happy place where two Bad News Betty’s – tobacco and GMO – collide, asserting that cultures from genetically modified tobacco plants are able to be grown into a therapeutic anti-HIV antibody. Initial small-scale clinical trials of the HIV antibody (or “plantibody”) made from tobacco have proven [...]

“What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? We are living in a period of mass extinction. The numbers stand at 200 species a day. That’s 73,000 a year. This culture is oblivious to their passing, feels entitled to their every last niche, and there is no roll [...]

Living along the border edge like the majority of Canadians do, we become accustomed to taking  opportunity to skip down to the States for the advantage of cheaper shopping. But to what degree does this hedonistic habit of ours impact economy and industry in Canada? Narrowing the scope, a flux [...]

April showers bring May flowers and you know what flowers bring—bees. I came across a nifty DIY bee hive tutorial on the Homesteading Self Sufficiency Survival page, and soon found myself deep into an internet investigation of all kinds of do-it-yourself homes and hideaways for attracting critters to your yard [...]

In the Northern Hemisphere, the recent calendar page turn from April to May marks the official start of the spring-summer season, the return of shorts and of sand-filled Saturdays. It is also skin cancer awareness month. The thinning ozone and rising temperatures mean it’s more important than ever this year [...]