ENVIRONMENT: It’s not easy going green, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth it. Following the one year anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Japan, Greenpeace invites you to a photography exhibition, Shadowlands: From Chernobyl to Fukushima, that examines costs of the nuclear industry. There will also be workshops and panel discussions on the Sunday. [...]

Dear old Auntie Nuke would have been busy in 1980. Public concern about the nuclear industry was heightened by the accident at Three Mile Island a year earlier. This, we suspect, would in turn have increased support for Greenpeace and other anti-nuclear groups campaigning against Ontario Hydro’s plan to build four reactors near Bowmanville. As [...]

Kleercut WARNING! Contains clearcut ancient forests www.kleercut.net When CBS Outdoor wrapped St. George station in vinyl ads promoting a certain brand of facial tissue, Greenpeace’s Kleercut campaign decided to tackle the omnipresent sales pitch by generously sprinkling the premises with doses of perspective, reminding subway riders that the softness of Kimberly-Clark’s products comes at the [...]

Apparently 6% GST is still being charged in parking lots at Pearson airport, in spite of the fact that the tax was lowered to 5% on January 1. The overpricing is being blamed on a system glitch that is being “worked on,” but in the meantime, the GTAA plans to keep the extra cash for [...]