by PDR-Kellie | Jun 3, 2008 | Food, Going Green, Issues, Ontario, Recommended, Seasons, Simcoe County, World, Writing Life
Last year I spent some time chatting with a few local farmers to produce an article about the importance and ease of eating from the fields in the county I call home. Called Think Fresh, Eat Locally, the article is in the May/June issue of Simcoe Life magazine. With...
by PDR-Kellie | Apr 30, 2008 | Contemplations, Going Green, Issues, Writing Life
I don’t know if it’s because I recently finished re-watching the final season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer or all the bad news lately but if ever there was a time when I was tempted to grow a long, white beard and hoist a sign on the street corner, this is it. The end,...
by PDR-Kellie | Apr 22, 2008 | Food, Going Green, Recommended, Writing Life
Lately my interests keep moving towards food – how it’s produced, where it comes from, the costs in creating it, the sometimes hidden science behind it, the often invisible threats to our health that occupy many of our supermarkets. Don’t get me...
by PDR-Kellie | Dec 6, 2007 | Going Green, Just For Fun, United States
A couple of odd bits of news from Miami, Florida popped into my in-box today, sent by TravelMole. Together, they summoned an image of that strange ocean-side world, so different from the wintry view out my window. How fun! The first is a newly offered guarantee from...
by PDR-Kellie | Dec 5, 2007 | Going Green, Seasons, Simcoe County
When I was a kid growing up in Northern Ontario, getting a Christmas tree often involved bumping down some icy back road, breaking trail into the forest and cutting one down. That might make some environmentalists cringe, but not as much as plastic. The verdict has...
by PDR-Kellie | Nov 22, 2007 | Contemplations, Going Green, Issues, World
Like a bunch of bullies, the current Canadian power mongers government in power has decided not to invite anyone out of the in-club to the upcoming major important meeting on climate change in Bali, Indonesia. The reason? The last time they invited opposition MPs to...
