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Going Green: Making Great Cheese Even Better

by Amoy on February 17, 2010 Filed under Farms

eco-friendly Fifth Town Artisan Cheese

It looks like an eco-friendly future can include culinary delights like artisan cheeses. Introducing the first Platinum LEED-certified dairy: Fifth Town Artisan Cheese Co., from Prince Edward County, Ontario.

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Vancouver Winter Olympics

The green credentials of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics are being questioned, in a rather ironic situation in which we see organizers desperately trying to create enough snow for the events, due to an unseasonably warm winter. A report by the David Suzuki Foundation has critiqued efforts being made to offset emissions.

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Box Car Green Bin

When 75 year old grandfather Bob Platts realized that the city green bins his neighborhood had been using as part of a pilot project would be switched for smaller ones, he saw a great opportunity.

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Toronto's Snow Free November

Toronto has but a few hours remaining before it officially announces its first snow-free November in recorded history, that is, since 1937, when the weather office started keeping track.

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The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair

The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair has decided that, for the first time in its 87 year history, it will be fully green. At least, the energy required to run the ten-day event will be.

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