Tuesday, September 25, 2012 at 9:47AM This is not a plea to put solar panels on every house. This is simply a plea that houses being built today be built in a way that will accommodate solar panels in the future. It is time the eminence of a low-carbon future affected everyone’s choices: potential homeowners, homebuilders, developers and city planners.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 at 4:01PM We need a group that brings together residents of southeastern Manitoba who share a concern about the way we live: a group that facilitates conversations and allows for the possibility of group action that will have a greater impact on our community than each of us acting individually. The South Eastman Transition Initiative tries to be such a group.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 10:51AM Someone has said “What you measure is what you get.” Implicit in TomorrowNow is the conventional assumption that the measure of success of government policy is GDP. This needs to change. GDP as a measure of prosperity and success needs to be supplanted with some other measure that more accurately reflects prosperity.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 at 6:24AM Imagine a different Steinbach. Imagine a Steinbach with a parking policy and a culture that expects the driver to pay for the space to park his car!
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 at 8:07PM On Thursday, August 23rd, the South Eastman Transition Initiative sponsored a visit to Sardius Holsteins, an organic dairy farm a few miles south east of Steinbach. Sam and Anne Appleby together with their son Bill run the farm.