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Botanical Gardens |
Sustainable
Living Tips
We will be posting
ideas for sustainable living on our web site. This is just a beginning.
Walk
Walk. It's one of
the best things you can do for yourself. If you can, use walking as
your preferred form of personal transportation (certainly for short
trips). The biggest part of our ecological footprint as Canadians
represents our use of energy, and transportation is a big chunk of that.
Don’t Waste
Have your home
inspected for energy use, and make repairs to ensure that energy
isn't being wasted. Improving home energy efficiency will save you
money. Funny, isn't it, how often economic and ecological good sense
go hand in hand?
Know your own Footprints
Consider using an
on-line calculator to estimate your own ecological foot-print, and
then see what you can do to reduce it. Ecological footprints indicate
how much ecologically productive land is needed to support your
lifestyle. Canadians have among the largest per person footprints on
earth. Different agencies get slightly different numbers, but a
typical value is between 7.5 and 8.5 hectares - that's between 18 and
21 acres of land. We've book-marked some of these calculators on our
Web Links page. |
