The Village Green

Question – what would you do if your electricity bill doubled overnight?  Just wondering. 

In the Labour Day Monday edition of the Globe and Mail, reporter Ko

“I’ll never get my money back; it’s too expensive”.  

One of the misconceptions that has had a lot of legs but which has started to shatter of late is the idea that the green economy – energy efficiency, renewable energy, organic agriculture, the loca

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p>I thought I would post this link to a speech by Van Jones.  You just gotta check it out.

It’s a really sunny Friday here in Toronto and so I thought I would end off the week by riffing a bit about solar energy with one of my all-time favourite pictures.  

In her signature work, the Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs proposed that new ideas need old buildings.

I was called recently by a film journalist looking for a shoot location for a segment he was doing on “green homes”.  We quickly got into a discussion about the definition of “green”.