Jacqueline Louie
Food Security, Seed Saving and Growing Your Own Food
With COVID-19, growing your own food has suddenly come back into fashion. Planting a veggie garden offers many benefits, from enhanced food security, to...
Investing On Your Own
When you control your money, it can go a long way to helping you control your future.
And for women, this message is especially relevant.
Being...
DIY Food Projects
Carmen Lamoureux believes that absolutely anyone can grow their own food.
Growing food not only addresses the need for food security, it also empowers human...
What does money mean to you? Alternate Investments – Gold and...
What does money mean to you? A stack of crisp paper bills? Numbers on a screen?
Ask Nick Barisheff, a Canadian authority on gold bullion,...
How a Multi-Generational Family Goes Green
Alberta engineer Michelle Avis had a great job in the oil and gas industry. Then – together with her husband Rob, also an engineer,...
The Gold Standard: Levonne Louie
Levonne Louie is a former oil and gas industry professional based in Calgary, Alberta. Louie is the author of several books, including her most...
Field of Dreams—Why Permaculture Rocks!
I used to think that gardening was way too much work to bother with. Then I discovered permaculture.
Permaculture—a portmanteau of ‘permanent agriculture’ and ‘permanent...
How Small Investments Can Lead to Big Change
According to a recently released United Nations report, one million plant and animal species are facing extinction due to human activity. The world’s unprecedented...
Impact Investing: The New Generation of Social Responsibility
Vermilion Energy heats the 15-hectare Tom d'Aqui tomato greenhouse in Parentis, France, using geothermal energy from its oil production. Credit: Vermilion Energy Inc.
Impact investing...