Live Small and Prosper: London is on an environmental roll (Look out, Montreal!)

My hometown - London, Ontario - recently instituted a limited ban on sales of plastic water bottles at city-owned sites.

Shortly thereafter it garnered praise from other Canadian cities including our capital, Ottawa, was featured on CBC Radio news (jist talk about a feather in yer cap, by gol’) and may influence future decisions re bottled water in local schools.

Not bad for a couple hours work on a Monday night at ye olde city hall.

So, we should start a list, eh?


If city council can figure out how to get water fountains into public spaces e.g. Victoria Park, and ordinary citizens can actually manage to carry water in thermoses - geez, or squeeze their own oranges if they prefer fresh juice - we should go onto something else that will help the environment or save landfill space or lower our dependence upon another convenience related to the all-encompassing (but not all-powerful) fossil fuel industry.

If we play our cards right we might even get our own space on the next Monopoly board.

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