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“In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.” ~ Henry RollinsJust as the quote above states, we spend the winter months reflecting on the previous year and planning for the spring.We ‘spring clean’ our homes, but it is equal-ly important that we ‘spring clean’ ourselves personally … here are seven inner ways you can begin to feel refreshed for the new season.Here are a few ways you can begin with confi-dence, clarity and support:1. Get up a bit earlier each day to sit in stillness
before the rest of the world wakes up.2. Begin a short meditation practice – five
minutes per day to start.3. Do an internal cleanse: cut out white sugars,
alcohol, dairy and enriched flour products. Add in herbal teas, plenty of fresh juices and purified water. Eat more fruits, vegetables and foods that are ‘alive’.
4. Get outside and connect to Mother Earth. We feel better when we are grounded. It’s Spring – get your feet right in the soil.
5. Get a facial to replenish your dry skin after a long winter.
6. Journal about how you are feel – allow yourself time to just do some stream of consciousness writing – purge from within, letting it all go on the paper. Set a timer for 10 minutes and write your heart out.
7. Declutter your environment to create space. It feels amazing to have open space in your closets, countertops and cupboards. This brings fresh new energy into your life – and donating surplus items from your home just feels good.
I wish you an abundant Spring season filled with much love, passion and adventure. As always I am here to support you in this life journey – and welcome your feedback.
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Certified Wellness Coach, Cheryl Hiebert can help you learn to follow your life’s bliss and inner calm. Hiebert’s ultimate goal is to inspire a wellness movement. Providing an encouraging, guiding light, she promotes living who we are at our best, living authentically and in alignment with our values. Her works centers on having more ease in our lives and teaches the benefits of self-healing. Hiebert carries out a diverse range of health and wellness healing workshops, which are all ripe for fiery inspiration, self-enlightenment and personal progress. She provides personal sessions, workshops and retreats, both within and outside the city of Kingston. As a speaker and author, Hiebert shares wisdom and teachings to a broader audience through her books; writing for several publications and as an expert for several wellness panels, blogs and websites.She lives her life with passion and purpose, and by example, leads others to do the same.
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Michelle Deschenes, owner of ACE Nutrition, knows good food when she sees it. She knows good food when she tastes it. Lover of wine. Lover of food. Well traveled.
We Kingstonians are luckier than we know. We live in an innovative city surrounded by some of the best restaurants that are making a great effort to offer menu items from locally sourced ingredients emphasizing flavour, freshness, nutrition and social consciousness. As an individual we can make a difference too. Instead of fighting the crowds at Costco, forego the supersized ideology and consider CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture). Purchasing a CSA means you are investing in a farm share of fresh local produce and your support assists the farmer in planning produc-tion by helping with seed, equipment and labour expenses.
Every CSA is unique in its offerings due to what is produced, the length of the growing season, the size of the shares, and mother nature. Typ-ically you will receive a weekly share of fresh, local, farm-raised food. One of the most unique Christmas gifts I ever received was a CSA farm share. It was delightful discovering the “Salt of the Earth” farm and getting to know the family and their love of the land. I joyfully looked forward to my weekly adventure with great anticipation and wonder of what “gifts” I would receive each week; to come home and commence menu planning around the bounty. It is an ingenious gift of health. www.saltofkingston.comThe Kitchen Garden is a CSA farm share in its
10th season of organically grown vegetables. Their model differs from traditional CSA pro-grams in that rather than a weekly pre-packaged box of vegetables, the Kitchen Garden allows members to choose from the offerings at their stall at the Memorial Centre Farmers’ Market based on the market share that was pre-pur-chased. This unique option means you can have more of what you really desire. www.theKitchenGarden.caTwenty-five to 30 vendors sell their vegetables, meat, honey and other goods at the Memorial Centre Farmers’ Market that was founded in 2012 (open on Sundays from 9 am to 2 pm, depending on the season). Farmers’ Markets are another logical option en-abling us to conveniently and regularly purchase local farm fresh produce. www.MemorialCen-treFarmersMarket.caAt the Memorial Centre Farmers’ Market all the produce (and products) are produced by those living within 100 km of Kingston. It has a genu-ine family friendly feel with children’s activities and live music. Plan to try a free outdoor yoga session offered by Janati Yoga throughout the summer months. Towards the end of August watch for the “Night Market”, a collaboration with Loving Spoonful and the Memorial Centre Farmers’ Market. The pig and corn roast, and music, along with the market vendors is a huge hit under the stars.There are numerous Farmers’ Markets in the vicinity of Kingston. The Kingston Public Market at Springer Market Square behind City Hall is the oldest market in Ontario (established
in 1801). Stop by “Edible Earth” and say hello to Sarah (the Kimchi lady); she also sells her own organically grown farm products.
Westbrook Farmers’ Market is 5 km west of the Cataraqui Town Centre on Highway #2 at the Westbrook United Church. This market is dedicated to selling food grown on farms within 75 km. of Kingston, featuring vegetables, meat, baked goods, fruit and crafts. Open on Wednes-
days from 2 to 6 pm, and they also host a special meal event once a month.Consumers may feel that they are able to find a lower price for produce at “No Frills”, but we need to adjust our idea of value. Your rapport with the farmer, the tips on storage of fruit, vegetables and herbs for optimal freshness and feedback as a consistent customer is what the market offers that nowhere else does.
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David is a Carbon Activist, speaker, agent of change and originator of the Carbonleader - Carbon Impact Measurement & Certification Program. He has recently launched the Carbon and the City video blog and the YouTube channel, CarbonMedia
Carbon: Talk On The Street.The current carbon in the atmosphere reading is 410.38 parts per million. When I first began studying climate change in 2012 the reading was 392.48. Levels are now accelerating and climbing at the rate of 2.11 ppm per year.Climate scientists use 4 computer simulations to predict the future of the planet, the most optimistic being RCP 2.6 (peak and decline) it shows that if we take immediate action to stop more carbon emissions from entering the atmo-sphere then humanity just might have a future on this planet.With this new column along with my Carbon and the City video blog and YouTube channel; CarbonMedia I hope to inspire more people to reduce their own carbon emissions by shining a spotlight on some of those who are.
“I would say that ever since green building became an issue we have advised our clients of some of the greener alternatives for the projects we build for them. This year for the first time we had Carbonleader measure our carbon footprint from operations – I was surprised, it’s not too
bad, but I think we can do better going forward.” Adam Collinson, Collinson Custom Building & Carpentry.
Adam in his enthusiasm for carbon reduc-tion wanted me to mention his new 2.2 litre 4 cylinder engine service van. “We’re now getting around town with less emissions”
“On a personal level I’ve been recycling since before we had pickup and I have my household waste down to less than three bags a month. In the company we recycle and reuse everything we can. We sell all scrap metal & copper piping to a metal recycler and everything else is picked up by Westendorp Disposal who then sorts and re-cycles.” Dave Brunet, Brunet Plumbing & Supply Kitchen & Bath
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“This year’s home shows have proved that Kings-ton is a growing and teachable city regarding ecological friendly building practices and energy efficient housing. Whereas in past years, people would stare blankly at my homeshow booth, make a comment about wishing they had built their house like my display, then be distracted by the hot tub exhibit. This year people came with informed comments and those bringing house plans demonstrated the desire to reduce their home operating costs [and carbon emis-sions] with up to date energy efficient building materials.” Fen Laird, Frontenac Build & Design (Certified Passive Solar Home Design/Build)
“Automotive Angel’s a growing and new com-pany committed to new technologies as the world changes and moves forward with electric vehicles. We feel strongly about our future on earth and work hard every day to be responsible leaders in our industry to protect and improve our environment. It’s about all the little day to day choices and decisions that help us do
our part to make the future a better place for future generations.” Robert Francis, Automotive Angels.
“Our biggest, we serve only plant based foods. Plant based foods use an undeniable amount less fossil fuels and water than animal based foods. Watch Cowspiracy for much more detailed in-formation on this. We have set up our workplace on the same street as our home-we got rid of one of our vehicles and mostly walk everywhere.” Christina Avery and Caitlin Cowan, Knifey & Spooney – Sustainable Plant Based Cuisine (Photo credit Claire Bouvier)
Watch for announcements, next up in-studio Carbon and the City interviews on my YouTube CarbonMedia channel.
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David is a Carbon Activist, speaker, agent of change and originator of the Carbonleader - Carbon Impact Measurement & Certification Program, he is the owner of both Primary Impact - Environmental Marketing and Greenline Sustainable Builders specializing in Wartime & pre70’s home energy retrofits.
Queen’s Ups the Ante: 64 Electric Vehicle Chargers to Kingston’s 29...Call.Climate science uses four different computer simulations – called Representative Concen-tration Pathways to predict the future of our planet.Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP 2.6 - “peak-and-decline”) shows we have a chance to slow and reverse Climate Change if we act right now to end carbon emissions.Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP 8.5) – predicts that if we continue on a “business as usual path” then human extinction will occur in less than 82 years.RCP 4.5 and RCP 6 – both predict an “every man for him(her)self ” world where carbon in the atmosphere and global temperature have made life near impossible.The concept of “sustainabily” gets a lot of press as does Carbon Tax, Cap & Trade and talk in general about “reducing” carbon emissions. Clearly though, the computer models are telling us - in no uncertain terms - that merely reducing the carbon emissions entering the atmosphere is not going to buy humanity a lot of time.So it was with some renewed hopefulness that I read last week a Kingstonian was the first buyer to take ownership of a Tesla Model 3 in Canada.The fact that the City of Kingston had an-nounced it would be installing 29 new electric vehicle charging stations throughout the city and offer “free charging” for the first two years added to my excitement. Then the news that Queen’s University upped the ante and will be installing 64 Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations in total on campus made me positively
elated.You see I suffer from “existential angst” – the fear that humanity will self destruct before we reach Dr. Michio Kaku’s Type 3 Civilization and my offspring will never break bread with the Romulans in the Neutral Zone.Teslas and chargers in the city all good news, but we’re just one city, in one country.Enter Volvo’s announcement that all new cars will be partially or completely battery-powered from 2019 on-wards, and that they will end pro-duction of the diesel engine in what the com-pany called a “historic end” to building models that only have internal combustion engines.Both Britain and France have announced plans to ban the sale of all diesel and gasoline cars and vans from 2040. Norway too, has set a target of only allowing sales of 100% electric or plug-in hybrid cars by 2025.The Netherlands is considering a 2025 ban for diesel and gasoline cars and some states in Ger-many are considering a 2030 phase out. India, is working towards no longer selling gas or diesel cars by 2030 saying it wants to introduce electric cars in “a very big way”.And the list is growing exponentially. The Stanford University economist, Tony Seba, who researched and published a study on the rise of electric cars has said “Banning sales of diesel and gasoline vehicles by 2040 is a bit like banning sales of horses for road transportation by 2040: there won’t be any to ban.”Second thought, I think I will leave my world fa-mous sour dough bread recipe where my future generations can find it. Live long and prosper.
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his family-business roots, his eldest sons are employed in the company and have a vested interest in the business, according to Smith.“We are the ones pricing the jobs and doing the work. We take pride in our work and have a lot of fun doing it,” he says.BDK are finding more home and business own-ers are inquiring about their services outside of Kingston and the surrounding areas. Recently, the BDK team has completed spray foam insula-tion jobs in Ottawa, Toronto, and in between.BDK Foam Insulation ensures each job receives the highest attention to detail. Photographs are taken throughout the installation process to review with the client and make sure they are completely satisfied with the finished product.As if saving on energy bills was not enough, some homeowners are eligible for a rebate through the Green On initiative, which BDK is registered and certified with currently through the provincial government.“The program allows incentives to increase in-sulation in homes,” says Smith. “In some cases, home owners can see huge rebate cheques being sent to them through this program.”As a local business owner and family-man, Smith says he looks forward to staying busy and giving clients the peace of the mind from BDK Foam Insulation.Please head on over to BDK Foam Insulation’s website here. http://www.bdkfoaminsulation.ca/Follow them on Facebook here. https://www.facebook.com/BDK-Foam-Insula-tion-474614032611754/Check out this case study from Habitat for Humanity here. https://habitatkingston.com/
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Interview - BDK Foam InsulationLaura Miele is a freelance journalist seeking to showcase the natural beauty of Canada and the talent of it’s people.
Ask MichelleMichelle Deschenes is a Registered Dietary Technologist. She is the Owner/Operator of ACE Nutrition and Diet Consulting, Kingston’s Weight Loss Specialist, and she is also employed as a Nutrition Manager at Providence Care Hospital.
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What are Pulses and Why Should I Eat Them?Pulses are the edible seeds of the legume family which includes: dry peas, dry beans, lentils and chickpeas. They are extremely versatile and economical.Pulses contribute to better nutrition. They are high in protein, low in fat and high in fibre. Pulses don’t guarantee good health, but they point us in the right direction. The protein and fibre in pulses make you feel full longer and that is beneficial when we are managing our weight. The fibre increases the good bacteria in our digestive system which promotes healthy digestion and improved gut health. Pulses being high in soluble fibre result in lower cholesterol, which reduces your risk of heart disease.Pulses use only ½ to 1/10th the amount of water to produce compared to other sources of protein and they have a low carbon footprint. Thus eating pulses are good for your body and mother earth.It’s okay to purchase beans, peas and chick-peas ready to eat from a can. This makes them quick and easy, and convenient to increase the volume consumed regularly. You don’t need a lot in your diet to make a difference. Try adding beans or chickpeas to your soups, salads or stir-fried meals. Consider replacing even ½ the chicken in your stir-fry or casserole with chick-peas. Make your own hummus with leftover roasted veggies, 1 can chickpeas, spices (cumin/curry, onion/garlic), and a drizzle of olive oil and blend until smooth.Lentils are the easiest version of pulses to cook from dried as they cook quickly and don’t need to be soaked. Add lentils to salads, wraps, meat-loaf, soups, or make some homemade Dal.The Canada Food Guide has always encour-
aged meat alternatives and I expect this will be emphasized even more by Health Canada in the near future. As a society in general we consume far too much animal protein. We should consid-er adopting the “Meatless Monday” to optimize our nutrition and health.What are Some Top Tips to Improve my Health this Summer?The Canadian Cancer Society claims that 1/3 of all cancers can be prevented by eating well, being active and maintaining a healthy body weight.1. Eat more fruit and vegetables. Choose variety,
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4. Limit BBQ, broiling and frying at high temperatures as cooking animal protein well done (charring) creates chemicals that increase your risk of cancer.
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