The Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes

Wow, it's been one year already since I started this blog and I've barely posted a thing! Well I will try and make it up this year, starting with a story about growing up...

One of the most memorable things about growing up in Canada was the fact that every summer my father would take a month off of work and pack our entire family and dog into our car and take us camping. Each year we would travel somewhere different and by the time I was in my early teens we had managed to see most of Canada. These excursions helped to shape my love of nature and the joy of sleeping under a starry sky, something which unfortunately I do not get to do so often anymore.

More Than Pretty Knickers

For those of you who have not yet seen the short film "More Than Pretty Knickers" made by Jenny White, of Eco-Boudoir, together with her sister Verity White, who produces films for the BBC's Natural History Unit, then do check it out and see just how green your knickers are...

Are Electric Vehicles the Answer?

With the talk of Peak Oil being at our front door, if not already in the sitting room, there can be no denying the need to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels for transport. But the uptake of alternative fuel vehicles has been slow, with the overriding limiting factor in weaning an automotive culture from non-renewable energy sources being one of alternatives in that there really aren't (m)any.

When companies like Toyota started to unveil hybrids to general public in the mids 90s, many consumers saw this as an answer in their quest to reduce reliance on fossil fuels. But for others the fact that hybrids carried a premium price tag and really did not have very impressive highway fuel economy meant that they were not a viable alternative to green motoring.

But with the advent of vehicles such as the Tesla and now the much heralded Mini E, the once forgotten Electric Vehicle seems on the verge on main stream motoring...