Category: Green


Photo Gallery: Luscious Flower Art at Canada Blooms '10 (March 17 - 21) Book: Prefabulous + Sustainable Green Watch: Personal Water Filter Bottle   Official Spotlight on Vancouver Kick Off, and Athletes' Village, Part II Gift Giving: A Potted Orchid - Sensuality Incarnate! Giveaway and Photo Gallery: Behind Franke's Green House and Conscience Bargain Saturday: Wine Bottle Candle Holders Gift Giving: Give Green to Grow Green Home Tour: Modern on the Inside, Historic on the Out Video Question of the Week: Are You Buying Less? These People Are... Makeover: A Stylish Living/Dining Room from Pure Design Green Watch: Treehugger.com and Words from the Senior Writer Video Interview: Cheeky Bryan Baeumler of Disaster DIY  Gardening Advice: Starting an Indoor Herb Garden Design Dilemma with Carson Arthur: Solutions for Shallow Soil 
 
Mar
17

Photo Gallery: Luscious Flower Art at Canada Blooms '10 (March 17 - 21)

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Posted by Terry 3/17/2010 11:44:00 PM
I look forward to the Canada Blooms Flower and Garden Festival each year because I love to see all the beautiful award winning flowers and it's a sign that spring is just around the corner. Highlights from this year's show ranged from bouqets, floral
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Mar
02

Book: Prefabulous + Sustainable

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Posted by Jessica McLaughlin 3/2/2010 2:02:00 PM
The Stats Title: Prefabulous + Sustainable: Building and Customizing an Affordable, Energy-Efficient Home Price: $32.50 Availability: April 1, 2010 at major bookstores everywhere The Book Green decor is a challenging enough undertaking for a lot of us
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Feb
27

Green Watch: Personal Water Filter Bottle

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Posted by Catherine Jheon 2/27/2010 9:14:00 AM
This is such a clever little gizmo and it’s good for the environment. OK, you say, but what the heck is it? Well my friends it’s a personal water filter bottle with its own replaceable filter. The water filter lives in the top half of the bottle. You
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Feb
12

Official Spotlight on Vancouver Kick Off, and Athletes' Village, Part II

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Posted by Guest Blogger 2/12/2010 9:11:00 PM
They're here! They're here! The Winter Games, I mean. Are you watching it tonight? Isn't everyone? All right, I'll get to the point; my foodnetwork.ca counterpart , CJ, and I, have put our little bloggity heads together to make our own mark on the excitement
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Feb
11

Gift Giving: A Potted Orchid - Sensuality Incarnate!

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 2/11/2010 11:21:00 PM
Why bring flowers that will flop within days, when you can bring something with a little more meaning and permanence? A potted Orchid is not only one of the most sturdy and luxurious flowers around, it's a flower that particularly befits the occasion
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Jan
23

Giveaway and Photo Gallery: Behind Franke's Green House and Conscience

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 1/23/2010 2:24:00 PM
As promised: Part Two of Franke James... Franke's house, "Before". This past Tuesday on Home Tour , I posted the home of a Toronto-based artist, writer, speaker and environmental activist, Franke Jame. Franke had an energy audit done on her older, north
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Dec
19

Bargain Saturday: Wine Bottle Candle Holders

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Posted by Jessica McLaughlin 12/19/2009 10:54:00 AM
I have a really hard time sending pretty wine bottles to the recycle bin. I just want to hang on to them for a little while, even if they just make my wine rack a little fuller for the moment. Sure, you can stick a candle in a pretty bottle and be done
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Dec
14

Gift Giving: Give Green to Grow Green

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 12/14/2009 1:44:00 PM
Transformation of The Brickworks , Toronto Woah, that's a lot of Gs... Anywho, today: a gift that truly keeps on giving. Instead of buying, buying and more buying (and wasting tonnes of wrapping paper, gift bags, time and patience -- am I a Grinch?),
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Nov
24

Home Tour: Modern on the Inside, Historic on the Out

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 11/24/2009 9:26:00 AM
This here “small design oasis in Toronto’s city core,” as described by Stanford Downey , the architecture firm behind it, was featured on HGTV Canada's World's Greenest Homes . As an aside, it makes want to stick a small fork in my eye. I don’t want to
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Nov
09

Video Question of the Week: Are You Buying Less? These People Are...

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 11/9/2009 9:42:00 AM
Green is seeping in. It's everywhere. And finally, the ubiquitous campaigns for conscious consuming have worked on me too. So much so in fact, that while I still have flare-ups of wanting that fabulous new thing, more and more it's all starting to look
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Nov
05

Makeover: A Stylish Living/Dining Room from Pure Design

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Posted by Alicia Cox 11/5/2009 9:51:00 AM
Jacques and Nadine's living/dining room before... I don't know about you guys, but I'm loving this season of Pure Design ! The makeovers are fresh and bright without being too "TV" -- AKA too impossibly beautiful to imagine actually living in. This week,
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Oct
31

Green Watch: Treehugger.com and Words from the Senior Writer

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 10/31/2009 10:10:00 AM
"Suited Case" by Erik de Nijs via Treehugger.com We try on Style Sheet to regularly touch on green design , but our makeover obsession sometimes gets the better of us. While much of what we feature -- in this new world order -- has elements of Green ,
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Oct
22

Video Interview: Cheeky Bryan Baeumler of Disaster DIY

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 10/22/2009 10:22:00 AM
So, yeah, Bryan Baeumler is a saucy guy. I know it sounds like I swoon with every host I interview, but what can I say? I’m an impressionable person. Anywhoo, at this past Toronto Fall Home Show I got Bryan in front of the HGTV.ca cam for a little status
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Sep
29

Gardening Advice: Starting an Indoor Herb Garden

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Posted by Guest Blogger 9/29/2009 9:31:00 AM
Question: "I live in a high-rise apartment and am thinking about starting an indoor herb garden (basil, Italian parsley) in the fall. Is there anything I should know about timing of planting, if it's going to be exclusively indoors?" Answer: You can grow
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Sep
23

Design Dilemma with Carson Arthur: Solutions for Shallow Soil

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 9/23/2009 1:21:00 PM
Sadly, as summer leaves us, we'll be drawing our landscaping Design Dilemmas to a close. Our gracious landscape expert and host of HGTV's Green Force , Carson Arthur , deserves some time off. On behalf of the blog and HGTV.ca I would like to extend a
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