Back to School Green Tips Part Three – Clothes
Welcome to the third and final installment in our three part series of back to school green tips that will help you make this school year a little more eco-friendly. Our previous green tips covered school supplies and school lunches, so let’s move on to …
My Organic Garden Journal – Lettuce
Hello and welcome (back) to the Planet Forward blog and to the latest entry in my virtual organic gardening journal on this fine Friday here in the Greater Toronto Area. Summer is passing so fast but luckily there have not been any more signs of …
Back to School Green Tips Part Two – School Lunches
Welcome back for part two of our three part series of back to school green tips that will help you make this school year a little more eco-friendly. When starting a new school year you are given a fresh start and can break old habits. …
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Last Day to Take Up the Waste Free Lunch Challenge in Ontario
Did you know that school lunches are a major source of waste in Ontario? Or that the average student’s lunch generates a total of 30 kilograms of waste per school year which equates to an average of 8500 kilograms (18,700 lbs) of waste per school …
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Meatless Monday with Stuffed Tomatoes and Garlic Tomato Crostini
Happy Meatless Monday! As you may or may not know, Planet Forward supports the Meatless Monday campaign – a non-profit initiative in association with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. It’s part of an eco-friendly worldwide movement to reduce consumption of animal products …
Kids Today Schooled On Green Living
Planet Forward recently delivered a green living workshop on waste-free lunches to school kids in the local community. What amazed me most was just how much they already knew – for 11-year-olds, they were more educated on the environment than most of my neighbors. I …
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