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Lower equipment costs and innovative new projects are starting to make headway into the mainstream energy mix.
We’ve had some really frigid days this January, with many nights well below minus 20°C. I often wonder how they managed in past times; keeping themselves warm, while tending their animals outside, where simply keeping the water from freezing in their stalls would have...
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When it comes to renovating or building a home, it certainly helps to have a contractor in the family. Rick Zytaruk and Susan McGrath didn’t have to look far when it came to remodelling their Muskoka, Ontario, cottage. As the founding worker-owner and the general...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Co1Iptd4p4 In Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things, producers Matt D’Avella, Ryan Nicodemus and Joshua Fields Millburn go on the road, speaking to people about their way of life and showcasing a more stripped-down,...
Dr. David Suzuki identifies with a hummingbird. The bird is the hero of a South American fable. In the story a forest fire is roaring. All the animals are fleeing the conflagration. Not the hummingbird. It flies towards the inferno with a single drop of water...
The bucolic image of a farmer waking up at the crack of dawn and carrying a pail to the barn to milk the cows as the sun peeps over the horizon has become a thing of the past. These days, he’ll most likely be checking his smartphone while sipping his first coffee of...
Remember when geothermal systems were a top talking point when it came to energy efficiency in homes? Wondering why geothermal systems haven’t taken over homes nationwide, we sought out Denis Tanguay, president and CEO of the Canadian GeoExchange Coalition (CGC),...
We all need spaces to be creative, and the planet needs more of use to reuse and re-purpose our gadgets, appliances and machinery.
My partner and I sold our 150-year-old stone house in Galt, Ontario, in August 2016. We sold it on Facebook, actually, but that’s another story. Since then, we’ve zigzagged back and forth from Prince Edward County to Northumberland to Point Pelee to Long Point,...
Our Harrowsmith team had the opportunity to have a casual and illuminating chat with Suzuki
For Casey Grey, founder and CEO of The Conscious Builder Inc., building his eco-friendly house was about more than building his dream home: it was also about showing others what can be done. “We knew we wanted to build something we felt good about and that aligned...
Summer is a time when many of us head to mountains, woodlands and seasides hoping to unwind and recharge. But when we head out on vacation with our smartphones, tablets, cameras and radios we find recharging them daily more challenging than keeping deer flies at bay....
Nikola Tesla was the odd, overlooked genius of the Electric Age. He was a Serbian genius who despised Edison and Marconi, was badly used by Westinghouse and was finally abandoned by his patron J.P. Morgan at the end of his remarkable but tragic life. Tesla solved the...