Green as a Thistle
Blog URL http://www.greenasathistle.com
Located Toronto, Ontario Canada
Tags green, environment, climate change, life, canada, toronto, national post
Toronto journalist Vanessa Farquharson made 366 green changes to her life, tracking them on this blog; now, she writes about the environment with a critical, tongue-in-cheek style.
Latest Blog Posts
- A man, a plan: Tim Flannery on Oct 28, 2009
Correct me if I’m wrong, but my oenophile eyes and 30/20 vision (for reals, I have crazy-good eyesight) tell me that’s a bottle of Wolfblass in the photo above, nestled carefully in a grassy knoll. Oh, and that guy next to the bottle of w...
- There’s møre tö Sweden thån IKEA ånd Volvo on Oct 1, 2009
Hello! (Waving sheepishly) Apologies for the prolongued absence… there’s this thing called the Toronto International Film Festival that sucks up all my time for two weeks every September, and as soon as this year’s fest ended, I imm...
- Garden-sitting for the Alters: Harvest edition! on Sep 11, 2009
Well, the summer has pretty much ended, which is kind of a bummer. On the bright side, however, harvest season is in full force! Before my final schlep up to the Alters’ garden (I’ve been garden-sitting, for those who don’t know; he...
- Orange you glad I didn’t tell you what was in that glass of orange juice? on Sep 1, 2009
Way back during my green year, I made a few changes that had to do with juice: One was to not consume anything that had HFCS or any other modified corn derivative in it (which a lot of juices do); another was to not buy any drink that came in disposa...
- According to the New Yorker, I’m a slut who loves to fly and couldn’t give a s#!% about the environment on Aug 30, 2009
So have you read the latest edition of The New Yorker? If so, you might have noticed Elizabeth Kolbert’s rant about green memoirs. In it, she rips apart authors Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon, authors of The 100-Mile Diet, as well as Colin Beav...
- A trip to skincare heaven: Colleen Hague’s homemade organic lotions and potions on Aug 22, 2009
Those who have been reading this blog for a while (or my book, of course) will know that underneath my newfound appreciation for minimalist living lies a ruthless product junkie. It really wasn’t so long ago that I could be found slinking throu...
- Garden-sitting for the Alters, Part Two on Aug 9, 2009
Anyone who knows anyone in Toronto will be able to tell you that this city has been plagued with the worst summer weather this year — nothing but rain, rain, and more rain. Add a 34-day garbage strike to that (not to mention no daycare, community c...
