-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 [...]

- Janet Starr Hull, PhD
Would you drink a cup of pesticides? What about a cup of chemical water? All your aquarium fish will die within a matter of minutes if you add tap water to your fish tank without also adding a de-chlorinator to remove the chlorine. Doesn’t that tell you something about the danger [...]

- 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 [...]

- By David Pearson
Swami Nityamuktananda is working to bridge the gap between the teachings of Yoga and Vedanta
Kingston is soon to become host to the Yogic/Vedantic teachings of Swami Nityamuktananda, a seasoned yoga instructor and ordained Sannyasi from Southern India.
Born and raised in Chalakudy, a small town just north of Cochin in Southwestern India, Nityamuktananda [...]

- 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 [...]

The Power of Now
-Eckhart Tolle
Even if I completely accept that time is an illusion, what difference is that going to make in my life? I still have to live in a world that is completely dominated by time.
Intellectual agreement is just another belief and won’t make much difference to your life. To realize this truth, [...]

-David Suzuki and Faisal Moola
We’ve just had our federal election and, if nothing else, the environment did become an issue. Unfortunately, global warming and other environmental issues were overshadowed by an economic crisis and, no doubt, by the fear people have of the word tax, so much so that they didn’t notice the word cuts [...]

-Jo-Anne Hopkins, RHN
It amazes me that the Christmas holidays are fast approaching on us again.  By the stress, panic and last minute chaos that consumes so many of us, you’d think that we weren’t aware it was coming.
Over the holidays we tend to over indulge, over spend and over stress.  Ah, the joys of the [...]

In October of 2007 I found out that I was pregnant for the first time. Like many other couples, my husband and I were both ecstatic about bringing a new life into the world. I didn’t realize at that point how little control we were going to have over the next few months culminating in the birth. Our new bundle of joy was due to arrive late June of 2008.

With no safety framework and little government oversight, the cosmetics industry is operating in a virtual Wild West. And the West has gotten wilder still. As if there weren’t enough concerns about the toxicity of cosmetic chemicals, manufacturers are rushing to incorporate nanotechnology that uses particles 80,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

Excitotoxin and excitotoxicity are words most people have never heard before. Among neuroscientists, excitotoxicity is something that is connected with virtually everything bad that can happen to the brain—strokes, brain injury, brain tumors, severe hypoglycemia, multiple sclerosis, asphyxia, heavy metal poisoning and most of the neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Lou Gehrig’s disease).

- Vanessa Perry
What would you do if your favourite, even essential vitamins, minerals, herbs, homeopathic or nutritional supplements disappeared?  What if the government chose to ban them? 
 
Bill C-51 is being cleverly disguised as a safety measure to regulate Natural Health Products (NHPs), when it is in fact a step towards harmonization to Codex standards and [...]

Kingston Bill C-51 Rally Sept 10, 2008, 6pm
At Our MP’s Office in the Lasalle Mews (Corner of Princess & Bagot Street, Kingston)
(the rally will be either inside or at one of the Lasalle Mews entrances)
PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ANYONE WHO MAY HAVE INTEREST
The new construction of law for HEALTH FREEDOM as stated below will be [...]