how-to guide on greening your life and our planet. Check it out author/greystone-books/225/video">here.]]>Check out one of the recipes here.]]>poached-pear dessert found in the cookbook. Here's what one blogger had to say about it.]]>gorgeous accompanying book of the same name—with 200 colour photographs and 25 black-and-white illustrations, it's an exhibit you can keep on your own coffee table. For more information visit the Seattle Art Museum website.]]>Andrew Nikiforuk of factual errors in his book Tar Sands. The piece in dispute is excerpted in the current issue of Canadian Business, and the Board plans a letter to the editor for the next issue. Nikiforuk, a diligent and accomplished journalist, stands by his research and the facts. His astute reply is posted on his site. Read it and the backstory here.]]>Word on the Street across the country. Vancouver WOTS hosts a slew of D&M and Greystone authors at stages across the Vancouver Public Library space. Check out NDP candidate and Intent for a Nation author Michael Byers at the Author's Tent at 1 pm And directly following, Richard Wagamese reading from his powerful and straightforward One Native Life at 1:30 pm Illustrator Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas is at Canada Writes at 12:30, no doubt doodling away in the style of Flight of the Hummingbird And the two funny men - James Glave and Ian Ferguson - both at the authors tent at 11:30 am talking about Almost Green and How To Be A Canadian, respectively. It all gets started at 11 am all over the VPL, this Sunday, September 26. See you there!]]>the venerable treehugger.com to Sustainablog to the MiniBookExpo, bloggers and websites are taking notice of the little hummingbird that could. Check out the posts above. And also here and here.]]>Revenant, at this year's VIWF at two separate events: EVENT #38 Friday, October 24 from 10 - 11:30 am Revue Theatre Flights of Fancy EVENT #64 Sunday, October 26 from 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Performance Works The Sunday Brunch For more information visit the Vancouver International Writers' Festival online.]]>Paul Myers is nominated in the category of Best Writing In A Documentary Series and Nick Orchard and Corby Coffin of Soapbox Productions also received a nomination for Best Biography Documentary Program. The Awards ceremony will be held in Toronto on October 20th.]]>Soldiers Made Me Look Good. Ben McNally's Bookstore 366 Bay St., Toronto 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm 416-361-0032 or visit their website]]>Read Worthington's report here, and a further excerpt from the book here.]]>Markets Initiative, we submitted the paper poundage amount used during this period of time, supplied by our printers, to Paper Calculator, who was able to determine how many trees had been spared, CO2 emissions contained, energy conserved and water saved. The results, according to Nicole Rycroft of Markets Initiative, are impressive. “By publishing their books on 100% recycled Ancient Forest Friendly paper,” says Rycroft, “Greystone Books is a Canadian leader in forest conservation. Their efforts are helping in the fight to save our forests, and our climate.” Greystone has been the publisher of David Suzuki’s books—those written by him and endorsed by his foundation—for 10 years. Since the advent of eco-papers, we have made a conscious decision to publish not only Suzuki’s books on these papers, but the entire list. Doing otherwise would negate the mandate of both the publishing house and the David Suzuki Foundation (DSF). Further, the Douglas & McIntyre Publishing Group’s recent acquisition of New Society Publishers (NSP), the leading publisher of practically based solutions to environmental problems and a company at the forefront of green consciousness in the book publishing world, has only reinforced the commitment to do our part to reduce our impact. “Our partnership with DSF and the addition of NSP to the publishing program are two of the many reasons this eco-audit was important to us,” says Rob Sanders, publisher of Greystone. “Not only are we pleasantly surprised by the results, we’re also very proud. It’s time we as an industry understand the impact we have on our natural resources.” The results of the eco-audit are as follows: 10,329 trees not cut 7,192 million BTUs of energy conserved 908,024 pounds of CO2 emissions avoided 484,028 pounds of solid waste diverted from landfills 14,255,236.25 litres of water conserved In order to spread the word in a way that was more relatable than data and statistics, we turned to one of our most inspiring books from this season, Flight of the Hummingbird. This illustrated parable tells the story of a hummingbird who, water drop by water drop, tries her best to put out a raging forest fire. The moral is that she is doing what she can. By animating the art work from the book and using the parable as a metaphor for our efforts, we created a video that we hope will help not only to spread the word of our eco-audit, but also inspire others to do what they can, however small the action might seem. Already the video has received excellent feedback and is being linked to and posted on various sites and blogs. Watch the video here or on YouTube. We hope to see this continue. For more information on the eco-audit and questions about linking to the video or uploading a condensed version of the video to your own site, please contact our Promotions Coordinator at promotions@douglas-mcintyre.com.]]>Almost Green - about his efforts to raise a suburban family while trying to tread lightly on the planet. His main project: building an eco-shed on his Bowen Island property. His main challenge: finances. Creatively, he’s decided to rent out his very green, very beautiful little suite and is billing it as an environmentally friendly weekend getaway. His promo includes this video. Watch it, respond to it with your own video and let us know what challenges you’ve faced in going green. The best video will win a night’s stay at the famous eco-shed*, which you can check out here. For more details and info on how to play, check out our contest page.]]>How to Be a Canadian and Why I Hate Canadians will be gracing the stage at Vancouver's Word on the Street this fall. Across the country the annual outdoor literary festival takes place on Sunday, September 28th, 2008. Be sure to stop by.]]>The David Suzuki Digs My Garden Website David Suzuki's forthcoming book David Suzuki's Green Guide provides information on the benefits of organic agriculture as well as other recommended actions for individuals to be more green in the homes where we live, the way we travel, the food we eat, and the things we buy.]]>Check out the hilarity here.]]>online article here.]]>Vij's. Get all the details here.]]>