Tag Archives: water conservation

Vancouver as the greenest city

Vancouver has a goal to be the ‘greenest city’ by reducing carbon emissions by 2020. Their target: “Require all buildings constructed from 2020 onward to be carbon neutral in operations” as per the City of Vancouver website.  This is a goal all cities internationally need to put into place.  There is no reason given the […]

Global Warming Affects Vancouver – What can you do about it?

Each Canadian uses about 350 litres of water a day, second to our southern neighbours, the United States we are the worst consumers world-wide. Global warming affects Vancouver and we are seeing the results of this more each year with dead grass where there were once green luscious lawns. There’s nothing that looks worse than […]

Drought Preparedness

Global warming is happening and unless everyone begins taking drought preparedness seriously we will be too late.  California is experiencing the effects of drought and are now taking precautionary measures (see what they are doing). Here, in British Columbia the time to be pro-active is now, not tomorrow.  SYNLawn is leading the synthetic grass industry […]