health

For years, our household has been trying to reduce the amount of plastic we use. It's tricky. Most of the time you buy a loaf of bread, or a bag of potatoes it comes in plastic. Look around your house and there's plastic everywhere from the casing on all your tech gadgets and gizmos, the lining of tins of food, to the zipper on your clothing. It's even used in fillings for your cavities.

Try finding toys that aren't made of plastic. You can, but most toys seem to be made of the ubiquitous oil-based material.

So we push it to the back of our mind until our conscience is tweaked again.

I first took notice of cell phone scares when watching a television series based on former British Tory MP Alan Clark's Diaries. The then cabinet minister was convinced his terminal brain cancer (he died of a brain tumour in 1999) was down to his heavy cell phone use.

Healthy eating is too expensive for almost half of Canadians according to a new report by The Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation.

As a boy working on his grandparents' farm in eastern Ontario, William Rees found his vocation in life. Rees, a professor at the UBC's School of Community and Regional Planning, calls it his epiphany. It was also the root of his now famous "ecological footprint" that has been adopted by individuals, organizations and policy makers across the globe as a tool for understanding the impact we as humans are having on our environment.