This week I received a green bin at my home; it was just outside my door and all the way down my street. It seems my neighborhood was added to the next 50,000 homes enlisted into the regions “Green Bin Organic Program” which started in October 2006 in 5 neighborhoods totally 5000 homes.
The Region of Waterloo’s Waste Management Division is implementing an organics collection program. This program is similar to the Blue Box program, except it collects household organic materials such as food scraps and paper towels in green bins. The Green Bin program …

An offshoot of University of Waterloo’s “Alternatives Journal”, “Green Book Reviews” launched in May, coinciding with the magazine’s annual books issue.
Alternative Journal would put out an issue featuring green books. In the last few years the “green” topic has exploded and now the magazine has opted for an alternative direction.
With a 40th anniversary just around the corner, the respected environmental publication had an eye to growing the audience, expanding online, and finding a place to showcase the ever-expanding list of print resources.
Green Book Reviews was the answer; the website carries …

Businesses especially global companies have increasingly been responding to environmental challenges. Much of it is common sense, as environmental actions align with cutting costs, reducing risks, and attracting talent. And more firms are seeing growing opportunities to help formulate enterprising products and solutions. But is green enough?
SOURCE: “SEED: Panel One, Is Green Enough?“, user: uwateroo, Dec 17, 2009, YouTube.com

There’s a petition going on at Care2 right now to stop Iceland’s whale hunting.  As The Green Rocket recently released a strongly opinionated blog on this topic, I was pretty excited to see the online community taking action.  As I was signing the petition, my co-worker made a provocative comment:  “In the context of the world, is 50,000 signatures really going to matter to Iceland’s minister?”
Indeed, 50,000 signatures–the petition’s goal–does seem small in that context.  Perhaps it will mean nothing.
But consider it in another context: It’s 50,000 people who are …