By Kristi L. Heiman Your passions will never lead you astray from your life’s purpose. My narrative of climate change advocacy involves diligent exploration, discouragement, and inspirational individuals and wants to reassure others concerned about the environment they are not alone. Four years ago, I was one of thousands of law graduates in Massachusetts. While friends and colleagues chose to practice, I wanted to utilize my legal education in other capacities; I enrolled in

July 4, 2018 - The following members of Canada’s Clean50 are alarmed about the recent debate surrounding carbon pricing in Ontario, and the announced cancellation of the Cap-and-Trade program now in effect. While the Clean50 understands that the new government wishes to deliver on a campaign promise, The Clean50 asks that they consider doing so in a more measured fashion that will not be so costly to Ontario taxpayers. Ontario committed to the Cap and Trade program with Calif

By Richard Peddie I always like to recognize a best practice in Toronto because while I believe we could learn so much from other cities, Toronto already has some very good ones of its own. And one of them is the St Lawrence Market. Recently the National Geographic Magazine named it as the best food market in the world, beating out markets in NYC, Nice, London, Palermo, Helsinki etc. It has operated since 1803 when it cohabited with Toronto’s city hall. The market was saved w

By BF Nagy According to a 2014 report in archdaily.com, Montreal’s Olympic Stadium has a special place in history as the most over-budget white elephant project in the world of architecture. It’s $148 million budget eventually increased to more than $1.6 billion. Today building energy and material waste are being minimized, a new chapter has been written for the Big O, and there are signs everywhere that construction industry productivity is finally being addressed by the sec

By Alicia Cappello Let me start with a little background. Over the last couple of decades, I’ve lived in six different places – two countries, two provinces, and one state. Plus, when I lived in the US, I worked in a different state from where I lived. This means that over the last couple of decades, I’ve had to learn the waste management rules of seven different locations. And it was, and is, not easy. I recently moved back to Ontario and am now in Trent Lakes. Trent Lakes i