3:33 pm in canada, designs, recycled, recycled building material, recycling, reuse by TreeHugger
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The Bottle Houses
Bottle buildings are what Bernard Rudolfsky called
Architecture without Architects, where ordinary people build extraordinary things. At Cap-Egmont in Prince Edward Island, where he was a lighthouse-keeper, Edouard Arsenault started collecting bottles in 1979. According to his daughter Rejeanne on the
Bottle Houses website:
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Photos: Marjolaine Poulin
Like America's Independence Day, Canada's
day commemorating its inception as a nation falls on July 1st every year. But in the province of Quebec, July 1st is also known as
La Fête du déménagement -- or "
Moving Day." Chaos reigns as it's the day when many rental leases expire and almost a quarter million people move en masse. It's also a field day for free stuff, due to the fact that not all belongings make it t...
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12:51 pm in Business & Politics, canada, oil, pollution by TreeHugger
image: EthicalOil.org
I'll be blunt: The pathetic attempt by the Canadian government to rebrand the highly polluting, highly environmental destructive, highly energy and carbon intensive tar sands industry as '
ethical oil' rears its ugly head again via
CBC News. Comparing the environmental nightmare of tar sands production to the human rights horror of the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia...
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12:02 pm in Business & Politics, canada, franke james, politics by TreeHugger
We reported earlier how the
Canadian Government Tried To Silence Artist Franke James, who was taking her art show on a 20 city tour through Europe, only to face the wrath of the Canadian Government, which apparently doesn't like her messages about climate change and the environment.
Geoff Dembicki at the Tyee picks up the story, and reports that the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade denies it....
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A new report from Canada's environment ministry shows that emissions from expanding tar sands production and use will double by 2020 and will overwhelm emission cuts in energy production elsewhere. This will entirely undermine Canada's efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions 17% by 2020, as pledged under the Copenhagen Accord. So much ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Graham and David's Chickens in Dorset, Ontario. Image credit Lloyd Alter
Campbellford is a lovely little town of 3500 people in bucolic Northumberland County, Ontario; I know quite a few people who have fled the city and are teleworking from there. But certain urban ideas are not welcome there, such as raising your own chickens. 
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