Living Lightly

What’s a Living Lightly fan to do when a blizzard has virtually shut down the city, the snow is knee-deep, the streets and sidewalks are unplowed, and there’s a clearly important errand to be run? Use it as an opportunity to test an alternative form of urban transportation: Cross-country skiing. Or is that cross-city skiing?
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Art can be made almost anywhere, with almost anything.
Rock sculptures along the Ottawa River bike path at sunset.

David Chernushenko

Hello
My name is Tom, and I live in a rural area of greater Ottawa. My spouse and I, and our thirteen month old daughter live in a house that is “off the grid”. We have not yet finished the house completely, but have been producing and using our own solar power since July [...]

Urban gardens are back in vogue. Randi Cherry delights the neighbours
with her green thumb.

David Chernushenko

Living Lightly in Old Ottawa South Part I: drying laundry with zero
emissions, and that real fresh air smell, not the artificial one.

Photo by David Chernushenko

Living Lightly at the cabin. Rainwater goes a long way.

David Chernushenko

Drake Landing viewed from the front. Just a “normal street” but with real porches and not dominated by garages.

The garages of Drake Landing:

Solar power for the people.
http://www.dlsc.ca/
Photos by David Chernushenko

Solar panels over my doorstep, more insulation in my walls. Small steps lead to big savings and quality of life improvements.

Photo by David Chernushenko

Stuart Hickox launches Project Porchlight in Ottawa in 2005. Stuart and his colleagues at OneChange.org believe that thousands of people making small changes, can become millions of people making a big difference.

Photo by David Chernushenko

I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I’ll never see a tree at all.
~ Ogden Nash
from ‘Song of the Open Road’, 1933 ~