Great article here about a book on greening your life, without the depressing serious 'tude.
Excerpt from the article:
And if if you think you're pretty eco-conscious already, there is still some fun facts to learn. Here's some of my favorites:
- "Some 20 billion diapers are buried in US landfills per year, representing about 7 billion pounds of garbage."
- You can flush dog poop down the toilet but not cat poop (and ironically, it seems you can potty train cats, but not dogs -- drat!).
- "There is a Green Wi-Fi project, which has developed a solar-powered wireless router that can run for up to four weeks even in prolonged periods of gray skies."
- Burning a single gallon of gas produces 20 pounds of C02.
- Lunch boxes are hipper than tupperware.
- "Americans are said to throw away enough aluminum in three months to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet."
- "The average dishwasher uses about 15 gallons of water per load, while the average dish-washer (that would be you) uses about 5 gallons of water per minute at the sink.
- The US airline industry uses 53 million gallons of jet fuel each day.
I don't see it on the Octopus Book website yet, but Chapters and Amazon have it if your local indie book store doesn't.
Adria Vasil author of Ecoholic
Thursday May 3, 7:00 p.m
Arbour Environmental Shoppe
800 Bank St (between Third and Fourth Ave)
This event is free and accessible (please note the washrooms are downstairs)
Octopus Books and Arbour Environmental Shoppe are excited to invite you to an evening with Adria Vasil and her much anticipated book - Ecoholic. Filled with helpful tips on everything from which seafood is safe to eat and where to find organic clothes that don’t look like a burlap sack to which green cleaning products actually do the job, Ecoholic is a witty and informative companion on the road to sustainability. Don't miss this great event and learn how to make your world a greener place.
Adria Vasil has been writing the Ecoholic column for NOW Magazine since the spring of 2004 and has covered environmental issues for NOW’s news section for four years. Vasil has a degree in development politics and cultural anthropology from the University of Toronto and a degree in magazine journalism from Ryerson. An advocate for the earth, women’s issues and human rights since her teens, Vasil has appeared on MTV Canada and CBC’s Newsworld to promote environmentalism.
Questions - please call Octopus Books at 613-233-2589
Octopus Books PresentsIshmael Beah - former child soldier, human rights activist and author of
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Hosted by CBC Ottawa's Adrian Harewood
Tuesday, April 17, 2007, 7:00pm Bronson Centre Theatre 211 Bronson Avenue
Tickets are $10 or $5 for students/unwaged(tickets available in advance at Octopus Books, Books on Beechwood, Collected Works, Leishman Books, Mother Tongue Books and Perfect Books)
A gripping story of a child’s journey through hell and back.
There may be as many as 300,000 child soldiers, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s, in more than fifty conflicts around the world. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. He is one of the first to tell his story in his own words.
In A LONG WAY GONE, Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a riveting story. At the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. Eventually released by the army and sent to a UNICEF rehabilitation center, he struggled to regain his humanity and to reenter the world of civilians, who viewed him with fear and suspicion. This is, at last, a story of redemption and hope.
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