Calculate your personal water footprint or visit the product gallery to learn interesting (and rather dismaying) things such as it takes 5,000L to make 1Kg of cheese or that a glass of wine takes 160L of water to make.  Tea good – coffee bad. waterfootprint.org Read More »

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Garbage, waste, rubbish, there are many words for it.  That unwanted material; whatever it may be, that every day we “throw away.”  But, what does throw away mean? Do we throw it over our shoulder and it disappears?  Living in a First World Country, that’s kind of what it’s like.  Although we carry that big plastic Read More »

When we live in such a wealthy country surrounded by natural beauty, it can be hard for Canadians to realize just how much effect pollution is having on the rest of the world.  Very often the developed world is using the developing world as its “refuse tipping ground” for waste that it can’t (or won’t) Read More »

On July 29, Rob Safrata, CEO of Novex Couriers, spoke to Omicron about his Inconvenient Truth training with Al Gore and how he has applied it to his company. Safrata encouraged an interactive discussion that focused on how Novex has stayed profitable while greening their operations. He talked about the emphasis on the triple bottom line: people, planet, and profit. Contrary Read More »