I’m always excited when I hear of a new, innovative product. Now, when that product is also extremely eco friendly, I tend to like it that much more.
Many of us, especially those of us with kids, have ‘night lights’ plugged in around the house. Whether its to scare away the boogy man or simply to assist in finding your way to the washroom, or to the kitchen for a midnight snack of organic corn chips, nightlights are a common gadget found in nearly every household.
Not long ago, I …

An interesting initiative has begun just outside of a relatively small city just outside of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A 500 year project whose main concern is to restore an area of forest to what it may have been like if left untouched for 500 years. The old growth forest project in an initiative of the Ignatius Jesuit Centre, the Guelph International Resource Centre and the Ontario Farmland Trust.
There was a time when southern Ontario was covered in dense forest. Giant Maple trees and Oak trees would have …

In 1992, at the Earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro, Severn Suzuki at age 12 delivered an astonishing speech to countless adults gathered to discuss climate change, greenhouse gases and many other environmental topics.
Severn Suzuki is the daughter of David Suzuki. She founded ECO (environmental children’s organization) with three friends so that children would have a voice in environmental change.
Watch Severn’s Cullis Suluki’s speech here:

Severn Suzuki Speech Transcription

S. Suzuki 1992 Earth Summit Speech Transcription