The Green Life



  • Catherine Porter, an environment reporter for The Star, has long thought of herself as green. She composted years before the city's green bins. Her one-year-old is the only baby at childcare in cloth diapers. And she bikes to work most frost-free days. What a shock then, to learn last spring that her eco-footprint spanned 6.6 hectares - enough to cover Nathan Phillips Squares plus three downtown city blocks. Since then, she's been on a mission to bind her feet...


    Peter Gorrie can't remember a time he wasn't fascinated by the environment and he's been reporting on it, off and on, for more than 20 years. Over that time, one conclusion stands out: Less is more. Conservation is the answer to just about every environmental question. That's why, apart from speed and convenience, he's a year-round bike commuter and is working, and spending, hard to shrink his energy bill. He does, however, burn up a few watts communing with a screensaver of his favourite place: in a canoe on a roadless lake in Northern Ontario.

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March 21, 2008

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Colleen Sutton

Good luck Catherine. By the way, as a new mom myself (I have a six month old), we love our cloth diapers, one of the best decisions we made. We've tried many different kinds, prefolds, Fuzzi Buns, Happy Heinys, Bum Genius, Kissaluvs, you name it, but for now we're liking the Fuzzi Buns and Bum Genius.
Have fun and sleep as much as you can!

Jan Atkinson

Just reading about a need for a non-toxic method to remove strawberry stains from clothing. Simply pour boiling water over recent stains. (Give consideration to the fabric, boiling water may shrink wool. However more hardy fabrics will become stain-free.

Catherine

Good luck Catherine. Aren't you glad you got that clothesline now? Thanks for all the fun over the past year or so. Rest assured, all us ecos will still be here a year from now, still plugging away and hopefully a little further ahead. Best wishes.

sl

Great blog

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