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Power Plant Vancouver grows green business energy, fueled with organic beer.

March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

This was my second Power Plant event, and once again I found the density of interesting green types per square foot to be much higher than the average marketing fest. Even better, their presentation format gives their four featured presenters just 3 minutes and 20 seconds each to wow the crowd. Which leaves plenty of […]

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Walmart Canada announces Sustainable Product Index, new Business Sustainability web resource.

February 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment

As part of the Feb 10th Green Business Summit, David Cheesewright made some ‘major announcements’ for Walmart Canada. Here are the strongest 2: Sustainable Product Index: This will be a system designed to “… help customers across Canada evaluate the sustainability of the products they purchase, from raw materials to disposal.” It is to be […]

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Metro Vancouver’s new anti-waste campaign: Cool green, or just plain Grinchy?

December 28th, 2009 · 4 Comments

This holiday season, Vancouverites may have noticed a trashy little ad campaign from Metro Vancouver encouraging them to re-think their holiday waste. These are transit ads at my local Canada Line station spied on my way to Oakridge Mall (OK, I’m busted – not all of my shopping takes place at the local handmade craft […]

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Tags: Events · Green Creative · Green Politics · Sustainable Lifestyle

Cleaning the world’s largest ashtray.

September 28th, 2009 · No Comments

This past weekend I went with my family to the TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup. It was a gorgeous day on English Bay as we showed up with about 50 or 60 other people to scour the beach and shoreline for litter. As I kneeled in the sand, picking up lipstick-stained cigarette butts, bottle tops […]

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Tags: Events · Green Creative · Sustainable Lifestyle