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By Stephanie Jackman Canada is a nation of small businesses. Establishments with fewer than 100 employees account for nearly 98% of all Canadian enterprises. The majority of Canada's small firms (80...
October 3, 2007
REAP is a small-business association for companies committed not just to profit, but to people and the planet. Our subscribers are like you: keen to learn how to live more sustainably. Is there a...
Book Review: Wanderlust By Craig Copeland My wife is a walker. She lives to walk - in the serpentine alleys of ancient cities, across mountaintops, along coastal headlands, wherever beauty is...
October 3, 2007
Film Review: Black Gold By Craig Copeland I winced while watching the manager of the original Starbucks store in Seattle's Pike Place Market gush about how she's "not in the coffee-serving business...
October 3, 2007
Web Review: whc.unesco.org When our prehistoric forebears first gathered waste from the communal cave and tossed it in the river, they couldn't have imagined that such a convenient, expedient...
October 3, 2007
leave your car running, but it's not moving, you're using gasoline to go nowhere. You're not just getting poor gas mileage. You're getting no gas mileage: zero miles per gallon. Idling wastes money...