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Some easy ways to make a positive impact on the environment
Turn off the lights when you leave a room
Change your lights to Energy efficient lighting such as CFL bulbs or LED if possible.
Use a clothes line if you have one to dry your clothes (weather permitting)
Unplug all unused electronics
Open your blinds during the day and close them at night
(Winter)
Closes windows and blinds on hot days and open them up at night.
Drink Tea instead of Coffee (uses much less water) or drink
fair trade coffee
Turn the thermostat down at night
Buy locally grown food
Take shorter showers
Buy items with less packaging
Bring reusable bags to supermarkets
Reduce Reuse Recycle
Some links to consider
http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/green-halifax
- Halifax Green Guide
http://halifax.ca/environment/
http://green.cbc.ca/
- one million acts of green
Green Events
HALIFAX
Atlantic Eco-Expo September 17-19 2010
http://www.atlanticecoexpo.com/
Restaurants/Food
HALIFAX
Heartwood
Organic Vegetarian Cuisine
http://www.heartwoodbakerycafe.ca/index.htm
Planet Organic
http://www.planetorganic.ca/ourstores/halifax/
The Wooden Monkey
http://www.thewoodenmonkey.ca/
Fair Trade Coffee
HALIFAX
Just Us! Coffeehouses
1678 Barrington Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1-902-422-5651
E-mail:
info@justuscoffee.com
5896 Spring Garden Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1-902-423-0856
More Just Us! locations.
More Fair Trade coffee companies in Halifax.
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Companies
NOVA SCOTIA
LED Roadway Lighting Ltd.
(LRL) is the leading designer and manufacturer of LED (light-emitting diode) based street lighting fixtures and control systems.
http://www.ledroadwaylighting.com/
Seaforth Energy Inc
Based in Dartmouth Nova Scotia. Provides solar, wind and other eco-friendly products.
http://seaforthenergy.com/
Wood Wyant - The Green Approach
http://www.woodwyant.com/Default.aspx?Document=522
An Earth Friendly Store
http://www.plovers.net/
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
Organic Clothing and Eco-Friendly Fashions in Modern and Trendy Styles
http://www.fashionandearth.com/ca/index.php/
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Green Maritime
Websites
NOVA SCOTIA
CREST HALIFAX (Communities and Residents for Sustainable Transportation)
http://www.cresthalifax.org/
The Ecology Action Centre
http://www.ecologyaction.ca/
The Nova Scotia Gardening Community
http://www.nsgardening.com/
Clean Nova Scotia -
Inspiring environmental change
http://www.clean.ns.ca/
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
Green B&B
http://romanyrest.net/green.aspx
PEI's Environmental Information Portal
http://thegreenpages.ca/portal/pe/
ECO PEI
http://www.ecopei.ca/econews.htm
Macphail Woods
Ecological Forestry Project
http://www.macphailwoods.org/
Community Environmental Groups
http://www.gov.pe.ca/infopei/index.php3?number=1365&lang=E
greenspree.ca
Spreading green ideas
http://greenspree.ca/
NEW BRUNSWICK
Green Matters in Fredericton, NB
www.greenmattersfredericton.com
more to come...
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