They’re big, beautiful and absolutely breathtaking. The eye-popping horticultural exhibits of the Montréal Botanical Gardens are back! Following a 10-year hiatus, the horticultural art exhibition, the Mosaïcultures Internationales 2013 is on at the Montréal Botanical Garden until September 29.
Behold the emerald ash borer; the diminutive little pest that has arborists in North America covering their ashes. The ash borer larva disrupt the flow of water and nutrients as they feed beneath the bark. Any tree infested will die in 2-3 years.
Derek Burney has donated 316 hectares of land along the Nova Scotia/New Brunswick border as a moose tunnel of love. This strip of land will provide an area where endangered moose populations can mix, mingle and, well, you get the idea…
This amazing new green living trend in fashion enables you to charge your personal devices while strutting your stuff. A collaboration between fashionista Pauline van Dongen and solar ninja Gertjan Jongerden overseen by Christiaan Holland has produced a sleek dress and coat with fold out solar panels that will have you looking Mortal Kombat chic.
Jason de Caires Taylor is an artist apart. Combining his love of the ocean with his art, Taylor is able to produce haunting, and sometimes slightly creepy underwater tableaus.
In the midst of our ‘buy, use, toss’ lifestyle, a sustainable mindset of fixing and reusing items is lost. It seems that the life expectancy of household items is getting shorter, and often people resort to buying new items rather than getting their old items fixed. The Toronto Repair Café plans to reverse this throwaway mentality by making green living consumers more aware of their repair skills and increasing the movement of ‘fixers’ for a repair-driven, environmentally friendly more sustainable future.
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