Environment

In Finland, masonry heaters are known as “heart of the home,” and in Russia it’s “soul of the home,” reflecting the importance they have in people’s lives.

Some 150 new candy bars hit the shelves every year, but 65 per cent of U.S. brands have been around for more than six decades.

Tiny cones hang down at branch tips, over winter they will open and release seed.

The Everpure Biodiesel Co-op aims to put the ‘bio’ back in biofuels.

The provincial growth plans have focussed on the cities but “there’s been nothing about the spaces in between,” he says. “If we want farming to be an integral part of the GTA, the province has to turn its attention to the next step, which is creating a viable protected countryside economy.”

From dusk until dawn, our local bats perform an aerial ballet, devouring millions of flying insects.

A British study suggests that for every minute you walk, you live about three minutes longer. You’re not using time, you’re generating time.

Grasses have flowers just like roses or daisies.

If beavers are permitted to help reverse wetland losses, frogs will be among the happy beneficiaries.

There’s a population boom coming to Headwaters. Where will all the people go and what will it mean for our countryside?

When I moved to Caledon from Toronto in 1974, feeling all starry-eyed and back-to-the-landish, as befitted the mood of the times, the population of the newly minted “town” was just…

Boost “Deficit spending is already beyond belief, and the country is hugely indebted, as are households. The housing bubble has already burst. The Federal Reserve has made clear it will…