Seasonal Guides
Spring Guide 2010: "Spring Fever"
Spring into sustainable living this season at CRUSISIS.ca!
Spring is a splendid and revitalizing time of renewal and celebrations. Let CRUSISIS help you celebrate sustainably for earth, water, mothers and people.
See our event listings, eco-local gift ideas and sustainable living suggestions for: World Water Day (March 22nd), Earth Day (April 22nd), Mothers Day (May 9th this year), and World Fair Trade Day (May 8th).
And how about your garden, do you need a little help to get it growing? Our Urban Gardener can also help you build a hoop house to keep it growing even longer. But maybe you prefer to let someone else do the growing and you’d just like to know what crops are already in season this spring? Or perhaps you could use a few suggestions about how to make your daily living more earth and water friendly, for Earth Day/ Hour or World Water Day, or any day of the year, including spring updates to our Eco-Local List (sustainable directory) and our Eco-Search Matrix (search engine for sustainable living).
Whether you want to add a little spring freshness into your latest dish with Brooklyn Warehouse’s Chef Graeme Ruppel’s spring recipe and sustainable food ethos; learn more about natural health, with some special womanly wisdom for health and hair this season; or find out how to better support Fair Trade in your everyday living, either by taking part in local celebrations or finding out the secrets and beauty behind TAMMACHAT Natural Textile’s fairly traded hand-woven works; our guide has something for you for this and more.
Spring has sprung! Green naturally paints the background of the landscape. Let it be the colour of the philosophies that guide your choices for gardening, renovating, transportation, celebrations, and everything in between this spring. And let “Spring Fever”, our Spring Guide to Sustainable Living 2010 help you spring into sustainable living!
Enjoy the Guide and the splendor of spring!
CRUSISIS Sustainable Living
Winter Guide 2010: "Winter Winds"
Warm up to the idea of sustainable living this winter at CRUSISIS.ca!
Need a little help keeping your New Year’s resolutions, or maybe some inspiration for ‘greener’ ones you can actually keep all year long? How about more Fair Trade cafes to warm you this winter? Or sustainable treats for your ‘sweets’ this season or for any reason? What about news of eco-friendly events to fill the long winter evenings? Or, perhaps you’d like your home to be less drafty and more energy efficient? Or maybe even find ways to make St. Patrick’s Day even ‘greener’?
Whether you want to turn your brunch menu up a notch with Chef Marc Giffin’s Oeufs Hiver recipe (The Coastal); learn more about the nutritional value of winter vegetables (Canadian School of Natural Nutrition); heal with body ecology and immunity info. (Conscious Catering); build your own backyard rink; or engage in the debate of ‘local’ VS ‘organic’; we have plenty to fuel your fire this winter season.
There’s a new ‘clean’ breeze blowin’ in. Let “Winter Winds”, our Winter Guide to Sustainable Living 2010, send some warmth your way and be the ‘Winds of Change’ you need to blow you in the direction of a more sustainable lifestyle.
Enjoy the Guide and the wonderful ‘winterland’!
CRUSISIS Sustainable Living
Holiday Guide '09: "Eco-Local Gifting"
Give the gift of sustainability this season with CRUSISIS.ca as your guide!
Our gift to you this season is a number of sustainable gift buying tools, including:
- Eco-Local Gifts Lists: ‘Eco-local’ gift ideas listed from A to Z.
- The Eco-Shopping Experience: tips to extend your eco-gift-giving approach to the entire shopping experience
- ‘Eco-Business’ Matrices: series of Sustainable Gift Vendors to help you know who is selling sustainable gifts that are locally-made, green, organic, Fair Trade, & more…
We still stand firmly behind the themes of reducing consumerism from last year’s inaugural Holiday Guide (2008). But this year, our theme focuses on “if you’re buying, buy sustainably!”. So we’ve provided a “sleigh-full” of tools to help you do just that this holiday!
Let CRUSISIS help you make the statement ‘you’ want about your priorities and the buying choices you make this season: for gifts, decorations, seasonal entertaining, and events. Let us help you find ‘greener’, more ethically produced and/or locally-made gifts, and who is selling them… so you can start “Eco-Local Gifting” with the CRUSISIS Holiday Guide to Sustainable Living ’09, this Holiday and all year long…/p>
Enjoy the Guide and Happy Holidays!
CRUSISIS Sustainable Living
Fall Guide '09: "Fall for Harvest"
Looking to green your school or work supplies? What about the wardrobe you wear there? Or maybe you just want to make your lunches and snacks a bit more 'People & Planet' friendly? Perhaps you seek a more sustainable approach to education for your children, or for yourself? Or ways to finance them more locally?
Whether you want to scare your trick-or-treaters into loving healthy treats or are just looking for ways to harvest for self, simplicity, sustenance, and equity, “Fall for Harvest”, our ‘Fall Guide to Sustainable Living ‘09’ will help you sew all the right seeds for your best yield.
Local food champion, Chef Craig Flinn has generously provided harvest recipes and ‘food for thought’ about “Autumn at Chives”. Our Urban Gardner, Deirdre Evans, collects her harvest and helps you start planning for next year. And a new addition, Environmentalist and Writer Bridget Oland, chimes in with words of wisdom for Bagging Your Bounty and Greening Your Diet. And our Fall Guide wouldn’t be complete without our Fall Health, Naturally contribution, provided this season by Dr. Sarah Hardy, ND.
It’s harvest time! Reap the benefits of the CRUSISIS Fall Guide to Sustainable Living ’09 and “Fall for Harvest” this fall and all year long…
Summer Guide '09
Searching for natural sunscreen? Struggling to make travel fun and “green”? Want to support your local food, festivities, vendors and events? Wondering where to explore the outdoors and camp under the stars? Seeking BBQ ideas?
Whether you’re trying to discover your city, your neighbourhood, your natural surroundings or even yourself, “Sizzlin’ Summer Discoveries”, our Summer Guide (’09) to Sustainable Living in the greater Halifax area and beyond, will help you on your quest.
Read the Summer Guide.FREE Seasonal Guides
Spring in Your Step - Spring 09
Winter Wonderland - Winter '09
'Tis the Season - Holiday '08
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