We Walk 4Water
Last year, Spencer West climbed Mount Kilimanjaro ...
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Crafter Q+A: Maxine Chan of Tulle Box Designs
Name: Maxine Chan Location: Vancouver, B.C. Title:...
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10 ways to set a fun-packed party picnic table for kids
The perfect party picnic table for kids Summer is ...
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Madeleines for Mother's Day
To celebrate Mother’s Day this year, go beyo...
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The Great Gatsby style inspiration
I’ll admit it, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s T...
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5 keys to clean teeth, plus win an electric toothbrush
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Green Living
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4 reasons to visit the Green Living Show in Toronto
I have a confession to make: Just back in the office from visiting the Green Living Show in Toronto, and I’m embarrassed to say I expected a lot of granola and bad upcycled sweaters. Thankfully, I was I wrong – so very wrong. Toronto’s Green Living Show is loads and loads of fun and there [...]
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Earth Day Canada: Ecoaction Calculator
Ever wondered about the size of your ecological footprint? It’s something definitely worth pondering as we make an effort to go more ‘green’ and work on healing our planet. I’ve always been curious about my ecological impact, but never quite knew how to figure it out. That is, until I learned about the Ecoaction Calculator [...]
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Earth Day special series: Move and make something
This is the final post in our special four-part series from Earth Day Canada. Be sure to check out all their earlier blog posts leading up to Earth Day 2012. With less than a month to go before Earth Day, it’s time to commit to making simple changes that are healthy for you and the [...]
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Earth Day special series: Care and take care of the birds
Earth Day is April 22, and the Take It Up For Earth Day and Act for the Planet campaigns are in full swing! Sometimes, showing you care isn’t just about your actions, it’s about what you know. Commit to Care: detox your personal care routine. Do you know about the carcinogens in your shampoo? The [...]
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Earth Day special series: Drink and BYOB
Today is the start of Earth Day Canada’s campaigns! Keeping the environment healthy doesn’t have to be hard, and the campaigns are filled with simple actions for you, your colleagues and kids to do just that. A simple but important action that everyone can do is to drink more tap water and get water-wise. Reducing [...]
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Earth Day special series: Eat and plant
In the weeks leading up to Earth Day on April 22, we will be sharing a four-part series of blog posts, courtesy of our friends at Earth Day Canada. Each post will highlight simple things that we can do to better appreciate our beautiful and giving planet. So without further ado, here’s the first post: [...]
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To the polar bear, with love
Renowned philanthropist and entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson was in Toronto yesterday to to call for the protection of polar bears in Canada. I bet you didn’t think that was an issue, hmm? Polar bears going extinct? It turns out that Ontario hosts the southernmost population of polar bears in the world, with at least a [...]
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Super-cool new way to access Canadian Living Mobile
Use your smartphone to download the free app at http://gettag.mobi. (Not on your smartphone right now? You can find out more here.) Use the smartphone app to scan this code to download the free Canadian Living Mobile App. Welcome to the future! I tried this for the first time today and was blown away! How [...]
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One Ocean winner!
Congrats to Jordon! You’ve won a copy of David Suzuki’s One Ocean. Here’s what Jordon had to say about Canadian icon David Suzuki: “David Suzuki has always been an inspiration. A man with simple thoughts to help us understand that it’s not that hard to all do our part in helping the world be a [...]
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David Suzuki loves the ocean (and a giveaway!)
If you’re a David Suzuki fan, you already know how much he loves the ocean. And if you’ve seen his documentary series from The Nature of Things called One Ocean, you probably have taken The Pledge to do everything in your power to protect the ocean, because you love it too! One Ocean is an [...]
