4) Winter Wisdom
(1st Seasonal Theme)
With it being as cold as it can be during a winter cold snap, it’s a wonder we can think at all some days. Nevertheless, this winter, we’ve thought up a few wintery words of wisdom to help you get through the days and warm-up the long, cold season of hibernation:
- More Fair Trade Cafes & Coffee Commitment
- Home Deliveries
- Cabin Fever Conversion
- Curbing the Draft (Energy Saving Tips)
- Sustainable Winter Events
- Building Your Own Backyard Rink
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10 February 2010
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4) Winter Wisdom
It’s not an exhaustive list, but here are a few sustainable events happening this winter in the Halifax area from our web listing. The CRUSISIS event listings service is FREE and you can list multiple items at once with a “My CRUSISIS” account. (Scroll to lower left side of the website for your 'FREE subscription'.)
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10 February 2010
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4) Winter Wisdom
Building a backyard rink doesn’t need to be difficult. Try out these tips and get ready to lace up your skates!
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10 February 2010
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4) Winter Wisdom
Who doesn’t like the smell of home-baked bread coming from their oven? But if you’re enjoying the smell, it also means you’re taking the trouble to make it. It’s a sustainable practise if you can. However, if you’re like most people, you buy your bread. Yet what would you think about having it home-baked and delivered to you? What about home delivery of fresh and local fruit, vegetables, eggs and yogourt?...
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10 February 2010
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4) Winter Wisdom
When ‘Old Man Winter’ comes knocking, there’s no mistaking it. He brings with him a shivery cold wind that whips through every nook and cranny of your place. It’s dark. And it’s relentless.
Remember that there are many things you can do to heat things up without heating up the planet in the process by cranking up your thermostat. Here are a few energy-saving tips you can start right away, followed by a few longer-term strategies:
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10 February 2010
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4) Winter Wisdom
Getting a little stir crazy from being cooped up on cold winter days? Get outside and embrace the cold! But if you really can’t stand the frigid temperatures, or if you do get out, but still feel the cabin fever when you come in, maybe it’s time for a change? A simple indoor conversion of sorts? Perhaps a new piece of furniture from a special source? Do you something to spruce things up a bit on short dark days? A ‘greener’ coat of paint perhaps? Here are some sustainable suggestions…
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10 February 2010
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4) Winter Wisdom
Fair Trade cafes again? Didn’t we do this last winter?
Yes. But now we have even more to help warm your heart and ‘soul’ respectively, with coffee, from Fair Trade suppliers, as well as some sustainable coffee commitment suggestions...