There was a very cool article in the T*oronto Star yesterday - about a couple who put out only about half a bag of garbage for collection a year! Gosh, I wish that we had the infrastructure to recycle like that where we live! As long as some of my fellow metropolis-dwellers continue to protest municipal funds being spent on a curbside recycling test project, Calgary is not going to make any progress closing the ten-year gap between it and the recycling projects in other similar cities. Boo.
One thing that the article talks about a lot is something that I would love to do: compost! This is fed by my desire to put in a veggie garden in the spring, and also by my exposure to vermicomposting when I worked as a co-op student for Enviroment Canada one summer (my office composted our lunch scraps). Somehow I envision happier carrots, peas, and tomatoes growing in composted soil than whatever is lying underneath the sod in our backyard.
OK I'll bite: where do Calgarians want the money to come from? It all comes from them eventually, whether it's piped through the province or the city.
Posted by: Carolyn J. | January 25, 2004 at 02:01 AM
Calgarians tend to lobby for schools for the suburbs (really, if you buy a home that is a thirty minute drive from the nearest gas station and grocery store, do you really think that you're going to have a school in your neighbourhood anytime soon?) and road expansion - spending on environmental issues takes a definite backseat. I used to think that our mayor was as goofy as Bill Smith, but I am growing to appreciate that this guy wants to build parks and improve the recycling situation. At least, that's what I'll remind myself of when I pay my property taxes :)
Posted by: laura | January 25, 2004 at 02:15 AM