- 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 [...]

-Michael Bloch
Sometimes heating your home with wood can be more economical and environmentally friendly than the alternatives; particularly if you have easy access to wood supplies.
While wood fires do generate carbon dioxide and particulate matter, other fossil fuels can generate more greenhouse gases when issues such as extraction and transportation are taken into account. Wood [...]

I’ve written from time to time on the topic of GMO (genetically modified organisms) and food and while I still don’t claim to be any sort of expert on the topic, the more I read, the less I like the idea.
My misgivings aren’t just in relation to human consumption of this frankenfood, but the possible [...]

- Kurtis Barber
There is no doubt about it, dog poop is gross and pollutes our city parks, backyards, front yards, side yards and yes, even our sidewalks. And when someone accidentally steps in a hidden landmine, aside from the familiar ammonic odour, cleaning your shoes is quite vexing and time consuming. Less then esthetically pleasing, [...]

- Michael Bloch
Cleaning toilets the environmentally friendly way
Our toilets become dumping (excuse the pun) grounds for much more than our own waste. In our efforts to create a hygienic environment, we’re often killing much more than the bacterial nasties. I was brought up to believe that for a toilet to be truly clean, not [...]

- Michael Bloch
Uses around the home for orange peel
I’m not a big fruit eater, mainly because fruit tends to taste pretty much like acidic water these days due to modern farming techniques (and my dulled taste buds), but I do occasionally enjoy an orange or mandarin (tangerine).
Everything that nature creates usually has multiple functions [...]