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Greenwatching

with Lindsey Wiebe

  • Who’s green now?

    If Manitobans are so lackadaisical on the green front, what are we doing setting a new record for e-waste recycling and buying up compost bins by the thousands?

    View Full Post | 8/07/2009 10:57 AM | 5

  • Get your compost bins here

    For those of you itching to give composting a try (or just upgrade your system), a reminder that today is the city's big compost bin sale, where you can get a $100 bin for $30. The sale also includes rain barrels, compost turners and kitchen scrap pails at pretty reasonable prices.

    View Full Post | 13/06/2009 10:41 AM | 6

  • What to do with plastic bags

    Since this article ran, a bunch of you have written wanting to know more about plastic bag recycling in Winnipeg. Some people honed in on Safeway -- if a big grocery chain can recycle plastic bags, why can’t the city? And can’t Safeway just take all of our bags while they’re at it?

    View Full Post | 7/06/2009 7:27 PM | 16

  • The dead leaf debate

    There are some stories you know will get people talking. I can't say I expected a write-up about yard waste to be one of them.

    View Full Post | 23/04/2009 10:32 AM | 3

  • Hang onto your blue bags

    Thanks to all the people who wrote me about today's article on blue bags and recycling, pointing out (very rightly) that there is a legit use for the bags: shredded paper. A good number of you wrote to say that the city allows people to put out clear blue bags when you want to recycle shredded paper, so the shredding doesn't just blow out of the blue box.

    View Full Post | 6/04/2009 10:16 PM | 1

  • The earth dims, and Winnipeg turns up the heat

    The Pyramids of Egypt went dark for Earth Hour. So did the Sydney Opera House, a remote Antarctica research station, and even Beijing's "Bird's Nest" Olympic Stadium. But you'd never guess at the worldwide support in Winnipeg, where we marked Earth Hour by using even more power than normal.

    View Full Post | 29/03/2009 5:54 PM | 8

  • Back to the land, in city limits

    I'm in the midst of an environmental journalism conference in the Dominican Republic (I know, it's a tough life), where some of the world's leading scientists are offering some pretty daunting assessments about climate change and environmental threats.

    View Full Post | 17/03/2009 12:25 PM | 3

  • Who's your hero?

    Helping the environment has its rewards – but they’re usually of the intangible, feel-good variety. When's the last time you got a $10,000 thank-you gift for shopping with a reusable tote bag, or buying phosphate-free dish soap?

    View Full Post | 17/03/2009 12:25 PM | 0

  • Down the recycling chain

    In the process of writing today's story on Manitoba's so-so environmental record (which I'd love to hear your thoughts on) I came across another interesting fact about plastic recycling that didn't quite make it into the story.

    View Full Post | 22/02/2009 9:37 AM | 4

  • Passing on organic

    Attention organic shoppers: The Daily Green has an interesting post on fruits and vegetables they say you don’t need to buy organic. On the list: kiwifruit, avocados and bananas (the chemicals stay on the skins, which you don’t eat), as well as asparagus and broccoli (the site says they don’t need as much spraying in the first place).

    View Full Post | 11/02/2009 4:07 PM | 4

  • Plastic you can't recycle... easily

    Stewart Fay has a bag full of old ammonia and antifreeze containers sitting in his garage - three years’ worth. There’s nothing wrong with the containers. They’re perfectly recyclable plastic. It’s just that the city can’t recycle them, and Stewart didn’t know what to do with them, short of throwing them away.

    View Full Post | 6/02/2009 6:26 PM | 3

  • Sunshine on a cloudy day

    One leftover thought from this story on a Winnipegger who took his home office off the grid with solar power. After the story ran, I spoke with Frederic Pouyot with the Solar Energy Society of Canada. Pouyot said these projects generally aren't common - with some exceptions.

    View Full Post | 4/02/2009 10:51 AM | 0

  • What to do with enviro-offenders

    What do you do with a pumping company that accidentally spills thousands of litres of manure onto the ground? Someone who lets too much trash build up on their property? Or, in the case of this story, an abattoir with a wastewater lagoon on the verge of overflowing?

    View Full Post | 30/01/2009 3:09 PM | 5

  • Spending our green bucks

    So what exactly is "green infrastructure?" The new federal budget earmarked $1 billion for environmental building projects, but details on how the money will flow and what projects could qualify are still to come.

    View Full Post | 28/01/2009 10:25 AM | 0

  • Tiptoeing through the e-waste graveyard

    If you have a basement, spare closet, or a dusty corner of a spare room, you probably have your own “electronic graveyard” – a cluster of old TVs, computers or other electronics you don’t use, but don’t want to send to a landfill.

    View Full Post | 26/01/2009 6:56 PM | 4

  • Welcome to Greenwatching

    I’d like to welcome all of you to Greenwatching, a new Free Press blog aimed at tracking environmental news, events and ideas in Manitoba and beyond. I’m excited to take on this project, and I’d welcome any of your feedback, suggestions, or green-minded questions. Please feel free to post your thoughts in the Comments section, or email lindsey.wiebe@freepress.mb.ca. And don’t forget to bookmark this link!

    View Full Post | 25/01/2009 10:09 AM | 2

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