Toronto author and environmentalist Candice Batista gives tips on how to save thousands of dollars a year by making small changes around your home.
I wanted to give people the tools to navigate sustainable living. I wanted to dispel that misconception that going green is much more expensive. It absolutely isn't. You mentioned that you saved a lot of money following the tips that you give in your book. Can you tell me how much you saved? Don't be discouraged. Try try again and just keep doing it. Habits take time to break and habits take time to make. So keep that in the back of your head and understand that there's no such thing as a perfect environmentalist.
As the snow and ice melt, new hazards are emerging in the high alpine. From rockfall to variable weather, guides are re-evaluating how safe well-established mountain routes are and adapting in response: changing the time of day or year they're choosing certain routes, choosing different locations and making last-minute decisions to alter the day's plans as conditions change.
New York City is set to get congestion pricing and expects that to save commuters huge amounts of travel time. One analyst has calculated the total amount ofSally Bernard of Barnyard Organics speaks with reporter Isabelle Gallant at her farm on P.E.I. She is doing a study on having cattle in crop rotation to better supply the field with natural fertilizer.
As part of the agricultural scholarship program, she'll travel to different parts of the world to visit farms that practise both grazing and crop growing — and bring that knowledge back to P.E.I. to help her farm and others on the Island. Under their crop rotation plan, cattle stay in the same field for two years, and are moved twice a day so they can access fresh grass and graze the field evenly.