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3Rs Lifestyle
  • Consumer Reports offers Greener Choices website
  • Consumer’s Guide to Effective Environmental Choices
  • Sask. Eco-Network's Green Directory
  • US EPA iWarm widget for calculating energy savings from recycling
  • Wasting Less — A Consumer's Guide contains tips on how to reduce and reuse in your home.
  • Gifts, Clutter and Embodied Resources
  • Greening Christmas
  • Green (Christmas) gift ideas
  • Those true costs are a real turkey...
  • A Consumption Manifesto: How to streamline your life and still enjoy the heck out of it.
  • Ideas for community reuse programs.
  • Tread softly …- the skinny on home fitness machines
  • Editorial - How the world works—my printer story
  • Lessons Learned from Life Down Under by Jan Baxter-Jones
  • Product Stewardship - what it is, how it works.
  • Swift Current site of Western Canada's first 2012 R2000 Standard home
  • Editorial: Rights, Responsibilities and Consequences...
  • Editorial: Decisions, key decisions, and sweet spots
  • Industry taking lead to recycle mattresses in US

 

Cool Ideas From Around the World
  • terra20, Canada’s largest eco friendly superstore, opens in Ottawa
  • Corrugated Cathedral Proposed
  • Saskatchewan goes green in 2009 - StatsCan survey
  • Waste reduction in Saskatchewan in 2008
  • StatsCan releases 2008 waste survey results
  • Study: Recycling by Canadian households 2007
  • UK Textile Recycling Research
  • How did Saskatchewan do waste-wise in 2006?
  • Solar ready-to-move homes being built in Saskatchewan
Public Education and Social Marketing
  • There's a brochure for that...
  • 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.
  • Research shows people waste more when blue bins available
  • Presentation: Effective Public Consultation - Jan Enns, Jan Enns Communications
  • Presentation: Motivating yourself and others - Damon Steadman, thinkBIG consulting

 

Naomi's Green Living Series

By Naomi Mihiliewicz of the SWRC

  • Introduction - Living low-waste (Feb. 2011)
  • Thoughts on waste-free cleaning (Apr. 2011)
  • Easy home composting (June 2011)
  • The Diaper Dilemma (Aug. 2011)
  • Green Baby Showers (Oct. 2011)
  • Breast vs. Bottle (Dec. 2011)
  • Chemicals in Personal Care Products (Feb. 2012)
  • Reducing and Reusing in our household of three (Apr. 2012)


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