SWRC - 3Rs Index

3Rs Lifestyle

Editorial: Rights, Responsibilities and Consequences...
Editorial: Decisions, key decisions, and sweet spots
Consumer Reports offers Greener Choices website
Gifts, Clutter and Embodied Resources
A Consumption Manifesto: How to streamline your life and still enjoy the heck out of it
Editorial - Keeping up with Green Joneses
Personal Carbon Credits
Making recycling work in Saskatchewan
Pace: the Final Frontier — Engineers hope to harvest human energy
Those true costs are a real turkey...
Editorial - Don't Buy (Recycled or any other)
What can I do? Effective Consumer Choices
How about a tax break for being green?
Good, clean fun - how to clean your house without hurting the planet
greensearch.ca - a new "green" search engine.
Tread softly …- the skinny on home fitness machines
Editorial - How the world works—my printer story
Local Food, Local (and much less) Waste by Amy Jo Ehman
Lessons Learned from Life Down Under by Jan Baxter-Jones
Film tracks family's garbage production
Wasting Less — A Consumer's Guide contains tips on how to reduce and reuse in your home.
After practicing the first R—reduce— you should be looking at the second R—reuse.
Encouraging reuse at a municipal level can be a challenging task. Here are some ideas for community reuse programs.
Product Stewardship - what it is, how it works.
Voluntary Stewardship Programs - do they work?
Study finds green claims exaggerated
Sask. Eco-Network launches Green Directory
Greening Christmas
Green (Christmas) gift ideas
Ups and downs of recycling market cycles
From Farm to Fridge to Garbage Can - By Tara Parker-Pope of the New York Times
Pick-Up Artists: Driving Across America, Picking Up Garbage
US EPA introduces iWarm widget for calculating energy savings from recycling

Cool Ideas Around the World

Pedicabs catching on in Germany
Solar homes being built in Saskatchewan
U of S Campus Launches New Recycling Program in WRW
How did Saskatchewan do waste-wise in 2006?
UK McDonalds to use sustainable coffee
UK Textile Recycling Research
Battleford looks to usurp all the thrones
Seattle, USA - What one city is doing to reach its 60% diversion goal.
Toronto gets tough on non-recyclers .
Waste reduction in Saskatchewan in 2008
Study: Recycling by Canadian households 2007
StatsCan releases 2008 waste survey results
Saskatchewan goes green in 2009 - StatsCan survey
DanCof Sustainable Coffin
Corrugated Cathedral Proposed

Public Education and Social Marketing

There's a brochure for that...
Ontario tackles Promotion and Education
Editiorial - Convenience & Inconvenience
Making the Joneses work for you
Bring the Old Bag Shopping - a public engagement success story
Sticky Messages
Editorial - Good Recyclers, Bad Recyclers
SWITCH -- How to Change Things when Change is Hard - How to effect behaviour change
Consumers vs. Citizens - editorial
Lost in Translation -- why businesses balk at being green
Changing actions, not just beliefs: Community-Based Social Marketing
Want People to Change? Nudge Them.

Naomi's Green Living Series

By Naomi Mihiliewicz of the SWRC