So my sister was watching the Ellen Show on tv today and she was telling me that they had a clip on how for Earth Day Old Navy clothing stores has this program where you bring in your used flip flops and they send them to a company who converts them to rubber playground pellets […]

Recently my friend bought his first brand new car, a 2011 Honda Fit. He got it because it is good on gas for the most part and because it gets a specific number of liters to the kilometer for fuel economy it qualified for a government rebate which made it cheaper than the competitive models. […]

Well I am very happy to say that I will officially be going on exchange to the University College Dublin in the fall! I am thrilled about this for a number of reasons, the first being that an exchange is something I’ve always wanted to go on since I was in high school and found […]

For one of the assignments in LFS 100 which I took this year (I know I was exempt but I wanted to take it regardless) we had to write a short one page letter to a politician, media outlet or institution on a topic we felt passionately about and see if we got any responses. […]

In one of my late night random web surfing sessions which being almost nocturnal at times I do frequently I stumbled upon a movement that is staring in America called tiny houses. These tiny houses started about 10 years ago with the first company Tumbleweed Houses producing them (www.tumbleweedhouses.com). According to their site a tiny […]

Hello everyone, thanks for taking the time to read my blog. Since this is my first blog as a GRS student I figure I would tell you a little about myself. My name is Ashley Canavan and I am a 26 year old Vancouver native. Before getting into the GRS program I did a few […]