Bamboo or Oak? A question that may be plaguing you if you’re about to put down some new floors in your home. Which is GREENER? Bamboo flooring is a sustainable resource. We’ve all heard this, but what does it mean to be a sustainable material or renewable resource? A resource is considered renewable if it [...]

No fliers please, save our trees. Junk mail…we each receive over 500 pieces of it per year. Junk mail and flyers use valuable natural resources like trees and water. Every year 100 million trees are used to make flyers. If you’re a business owner why not turn your company GREEN by having paperless flyers. You [...]

Earth Month is a perfect opportunity to teach your children the importance of taking care of our planet and learning to be responsible for our environment. It’s also a wonderful way to spend time together. A great eco activity to engage your children in is to start a compost heap. Composting is nature’s way of [...]

Now that the seasons changes it’s time to pull out the lawnmower. If your grass is looking a little patchy from the winter a great way to fertilize it is Grasscycling. It improves lawn quality when grass  clippings are allowed to decay naturally on the lawn. Grass clippings when left on your lawn, release valuable [...]

I know you’ve been told before…but do you practice flicking the switch? It’s one of the easiest ways to conserve energy. Lighting accounts for nearly 25% of total energy costs in the home or office.   Fluorescent light bulbs consume 75% less electricity, last 4-15 times longer, and generate 74% less heat than incandescent bulbs. So [...]

Happy Earth Day! Toronto’s 20minute makeover is underway and the city is hosting all kinds of GREEN events to celebrate Earth Day. Brita is at Yonge/Dundas until 7pm helping people to go GREEN by handing out free water pitchers with FilterForGood.ca One water pitcher filter can effectively replace as many as 300 bottles. With Canadians [...]

Earth Day is tomorrow and is a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s environment. It’s a great opportunity to teach your kids they can make a big difference by doing simple things like shutting off the water when they brush their teeth, flicking the switch off when they leave a room [...]

Earth Day is Thursday and the city is celebrating in many ways. Toronto is hosting the 20minute makeover…at 2pm Torontonians are getting together to clean up around their homes, neighbourhoods and business’. Make sure you get out and get involved and keep Toronto Green and clean. Then Thursday evening you can check out SunFunk 2010, [...]

Today kicks of Earth Week here in Toronto. Earth Week is not just about one week, it is about making long-term changes to the way we use resources both in the workplace and at home. Friday at 2pm the city will be hosting the 20-Minute Toronto Makeover and more than 100,000 registered Torontonians will head [...]

It feel’s like an ice cream day…cone or cup? Your calorie conscience will tell you cup but your environment conscience will prefer cone. The greener answer is the edible container, a cone! One less paper cup or plastic spoon isn’t going to save the world, but it’s one of those little things that add up. [...]