Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at 12:00AM Had someone asked me five years ago to describe the organic food industry, I would have placed organic food production somewhere on the fringe. I knew of consumers who believed organic food was healthier than conventional food. These consumers are willing to pay
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 12:00AM Okay, maybe not everything. But what if some of our core beliefs about how the world works turn out to be seriously flawed? Last Thursday some of us watched a documentary that flipped our world upside down to see what makes it tick, as it explored the most critical question of our time:
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 12:00AM Penguin Canada recently released a biography of Tommy Douglas, one volume of their Extraordinary Canadians series. I received it for Christmas, and finished reading it on December 27th. At only 221 pages it was a light and fun read, a brief outline of the career of the Greatest Canadian (as Douglas was voted in 2004) that gave a strong sense of his character and personality.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 12:00AM A series of columns on home design and home heating with a view to energy efficiency would not be complete without a discussion of the potential wood has for heating our homes.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 12:00AM It seems today’s home owners and home builders would rather bury their heads in the sand than work at envisioning the future. Conventional, contemporary home building technology has been developed in a situation when energy for home heating was cheap. It still is cheap – but for how long?