Environment

Purchasing Power! Bullfrog Power’s green electricity is hot in Headwaters, but is it worth the premium price?

They’ve been away for one hundred years, but with the help of their friends, salmon are coming home to the Credit River.

More than sixty species of fish make their home in the Credit Valley watershed, but many of them are strangers to all but the most avid observers. Let us introduce you.

Biodiesel requires little or no modification to vehicle engines or fuelling infrastructure, and its greater lubricity may reduce maintenance costs.

Red-winged blackbirds can read cattails as easily as a teen can spot the Golden arches!

There were many good farms around the perimeter of Orangeville that have become subdivisions.

Although food prices have risen in recent years, farmers haven’t received their fair share of the increase.

In just five years, between the 1996 and 2001 censuses, 12 per cent of Ontario farmers left farming.

Losing its prime agricultural land isn’t Caledon’s only worry.

The Planning Act provides the legislative framework for land-use planning in the province.

The greenbelt is only one part of a gutsy and massive initiative by Dalton McGuinty’s new Liberal govern-ment to overhaul land-use planning in the province.

A first-person account of building a solar-heated, earth-sheltered house.