- Carissa Cosgrove
“I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of [...]

How Worm Compost Helps Your Plants, Health and the Environment and How You Can Get Started
- Steve Charles Habib
Worms often have a bad reputation with many people. They look slimy and squiggly which makes many people feel sick to their stomach. The truth is in nature worms are one the best allies of gardeners. You [...]

-Carissa Cosgrove
LEED certification in Canada is changing the way that we build. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED now has a Canadian adaptation of the US Green Building Council LEED system, and is tailored for Canada’s climate, construction practises and regulations. LEED Canada sets a green design standard for the construction industry. It [...]

SCIENCE MATTERS
- David Suzuki with Faisal Moola
Some people think of bees as something to be feared. But without bees, humans would not be able to survive. It’s not just that they provide us with honey and wax; they are also one of the world’s most important pollinators. (In fact, bees native to Canada do not [...]

- Allan Proulx
How Do You Get Hydro to Send You a Cheque Monthly and Make the Environment Cleaner at the Same Time?
You can produce your own power and sell it back to the grid!
This is a very common thing in Europe and Asia and is now starting to catch on in Ontario.  If you like [...]

- Carissa Cosgrove
If you are driving down King Street in Kingston on your way towards Kingston Township, you might notice a set of buildings seemingly covered in solar panels on the southern edge of the property at St. Lawrence College.
If you do, you are likely looking at Energy House, an on-campus structure using alternative and [...]

- Jillian Murphy, BScKin, ND
Who doesn’t appreciate a clean home? Freshly laundered sheets, a sparkling kitchen countertop, a toilet scrubbed within an inch of its life….Mmmmm, you can almost smell the clean!
In fact, you probably can smell the clean. If you are using any of the common household cleaners sold in Canada today, and you’re [...]

- Jo-Anne Hopkins, RHN
Kingston is a hot bed of sustainable farming practices, and has been for a long time.  But, it is with the increasing awareness by the public about the “green movement” that is getting the ball rolling so to speak.  This issue of Within Kingston is focusing on greening your home, so I [...]

SCIENCE MATTERS
- David Suzuki with Faisal Moola
Well, 2008 was a wild ride, wasn’t it? Talk about ending the year with a bang! A global economic crisis, numerous elections here and in the U.S., turmoil in our own Parliament, and a worsening environmental situation – it’s enough to make you want to climb under the blankets [...]

- Mike Nickerson
An alternative to panicking when GDP stops growing is to view it as a sign of maturity.
Human activity cannot expand forever on our finite planet. An economy growing at 3% a year doubles its size every 24 years. Centuries of such growth have brought us to a mature size. As with individual maturity, [...]

- Michael Bloch
Yellow Pages and the environment.
Just about everyone has a Yellow Pages in their country. These tomes are usually huge and given the availability these days of online versions, are pretty much just paper spam to many they are forced upon.
The North American Yellow Pages print distribution is around 540 million directories annually. That’s [...]

Child & Family-Friendly Videos:
Grocery Store Wars - Free Range Studios:
A short film parody of Star Wars on the importance of Organic foods.  Great for kids, families and adults alike.  Free to watch, visit: www.freerangestudios.com (under gallery/movies)
The Meatrix - Free Range Studios:
A short cartoon parody of The Matrix movie on the process that livestock experience at [...]

- Charles Eisentein
I had a conversation today about the beautiful world that I believe will be born out of the converging crises of our age. One characteristic of this world will be that each person will have recovered a very basic, simple birthright: to wake up in the morning excited and happy about your work [...]

- JONATHAN PANG
Every day, every person in North America generates about 4.5 pounds of garbage. 56% of this ends up in landfills.
We are the most wasteful society on earth, throwing out 4,000,000 plastic containers every hour. Every little baby generates about one ton of trash every year and on top of that we throw out [...]

- Gita Saraydarian
We cannot change the world for the better if we limit ourselves only to the tangible things that people do and do not do. Our emotions, thoughts, and choices that we make have a huge impact on the environment as a whole.
All of life is one. Our environment can be the biggest we [...]