It is now understood that no human activity is environmentally benign and without environmental consequences. Even people living as simple hunter-gatherers, w...

Shakespeare’s Prince Hamlet spoke the famous phase "To be, or not to be" as he contemplated his life, just as we now contemplate whether to try banning plast...

The average home has 26 light bulbs in use. Over 670 million bulbs end up in land fill each year in Canada and the United States polluting our environment an...

I have spoken to several green-minded people over the past few years and am encouraged to hear their passion for the environment. Many have espoused the view...

Part 3 - How we Drive is as Important as what we Drive We live in a busy world and we always seem to be rushing somewhere in an effort to balance work, famil...

Part 2 - An Historical Perspective Much of the world is working to reduce carbon emissions in an effort to limit the rise of the global average temperature b...

We live in a world that has been powered by fossil fuels since the industrial revolution two hundred years ago. But we are now facing the challenge of tryin...

My parents purchased a number of appliances and other household items between 1959 and 1963 as they set up their household. In this era, products were built...

Opportunity is knocking – you can now make and sell finished goods from recycled plastic for less than the cost of new plastic resin! Plastic is an amazing m...

Our modern world relies heavily on plastics, especially for one time use items such as packaging, straws, cutlery, stir sticks etc. There were two major pro...

Omachron is able to take 100% pre or post-consumer plastic and transform it into finished goods with excellent material properties and aesthetics. The proces...

Man has produced more than eight billion tonnes of plastic and has consigned more than 6.3 billion tonnes of it to landfill or the ocean. The problem is that...

We live during a time in which centralized manufacturing and distribution threatens to transform our world and our concepts of work. Centralized manufacturin...

A balance between local production and consumption and Global Trade In simplest terms, plants gather solar energy and store it in a form which can be burned ...