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Visit the Sunday Spark for your weekly dose of inspiration.
Posts include weekly thoughts and highlights, nuggets of learning, and a sustainable living tip for the week.
A few days ago, a headline about sexism in skilled trades caught my eye. A couple of days later, my daughter graduated from a pre-apprenticeship program at our local community college. In Week 17 of The Sunday Spark, a look at how women in trades still face an uphill battle.
Also this week: Tokyo mandates solar panels on new home builds, LinkedIn QR codes, and simple and sustainable Mother’s Day gift ideas.
This past week was International Dark Sky Week—a week to raise awareness about the harmful effects of light pollution. Earlier in the week, an excellent blog post made me pause and reflect about darkness and light, and how we can’t really appreciate the light until we experience darkness.
Welcome to week 15 of The Sunday Spark, a series with weekly thoughts and highlights, nuggets of learning, and a sustainable living tip for the week.
This week: celebrating 100,000 blog views, motionless wind power generation, a free sustainable living microlecture series, sustainable wine production, and shampoo bars.
Happy Easter! Welcome to week 14 of The Sunday Spark, a series with weekly thoughts and highlights, nuggets of learning, and a sustainable living tip for the week. This week I’m spreading some Easter joy with an Easter-themed edition of The Sunday Spark. Read on for some Easter trivia, spring weather pondering, and ideas for plastic-free candy treats.
As I sit down to write this, I’m stuck at O’Hare Airport in Chicago pondering life’s little inconveniences. Welcome to week 13 of The Sunday Spark, a series with weekly thoughts and highlights, nuggets of learning, and a sustainable living tip for the week. This week, I have a tale of airport adventures to share! Plus, promising innovations on the plastic front, and airline sustainability.
With so much focus on diversity, equity and inclusion these days, why do we still tolerate ageism? I ponder this question in week 12 of The Sunday Spark, a series with weekly thoughts and highlights, nuggets of learning, and a sustainable living tip for the week.
Also this week: why eggs are so expensive, the latest binge-drinking trend, alternatives to laundry detergent in plastic jugs, and more.
If you live in North America, have you recovered from that hour of sleep you lost last weekend when we sprang forward to Daylight Savings Time? Welcome to week 11 of The Sunday Spark, a series with weekly thoughts and highlights, nuggets of learning, and a sustainable living tip for the week. This week, I wade into the great Daylight Savings Time debate.
This week on The Sunday Spark: Teflon and Velcro and our outlook on life. Plus, a world with no forests, the carbon footprint of our devices, the health benefits of kiwi skin, and alternatives to fabric softener.
Despite what the groundhog predicted in early February, there’s no sign of an early spring here in Ontario. This week on The Sunday Spark: making the best of winter travel woes, why flying isn’t always the fastest way to travel, plastic-free chewing gum, zero-waste stain removers, and protecting yourself from fraud.
Do you capture your memories using your smartphone? And do you take more, or fewer, photos now than you did in the days before smartphones? I ponder those questions in week 8 of The Sunday Spark—a series with weekly thoughts and highlights, nuggets of learning, and a sustainable living tip for the week. Also this week: Hebb’s law, and a serious look at toilet paper use.
