Although Canada has a lot of natural water available, this does not mean we have unlimited amount of supply, once you factor in the cost of infrastructure and other costs associated with getting the water into our homes. Canada ranks a dismal 28th among the 29nations of the OECD in terms of per capita water [...]

Wasting Away Canadians throw away more per capita than anyone else in the developed world.  In 2009, we generated 777 kilograms of municipal waste per capita, twice as much as Japan.  Most of it went straight to the landfill. Moreover, Canada’s municipal waste generated per capita has been steadily increasing since 1990. This chapter of [...]

On a Transition Street, neighbours work together to learn how they can increase their self-reliance in five areas:  local food, energy use, transportation, water and waste. Five topics, seven meetings and each household creates their own individual action plan.  Some groups also decide on a group project they can do together. This summer 3 pilot [...]

Getting Around How we get from A to B, and how and where we chose to travel to can have far-reaching effects. Planes, trains and cars all contribute to the growing concentration of climate change gases and pollution. But how do they compare and which is the most polluting? The overwhelming majority of the world’s [...]

From the Peak Prosperity blog:   Two of the most important research initiatives to study well-being over time were the Grant Study and Lewis Terman‘s Genetic Study of Genius. The Grant Study followed 237 male subjects for 68 years. Terman’s work began in 1921 and is still ongoing (in fact, it’s the oldest and longest-running [...]