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Made to Last – 5500 Years
3500 BC was a busy time with inventions such as the wheel, the first known writing and even the first zoo! I do not know about you, but I love to collect vintage items that were a part of the everyday. This includes vintage Pez dispensers (I faithfully carried one around as a kid) to…
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Wine Packing & Sustainability: A Common Language
To properly assess a wine packing’s impact requires us to look at the product’s whole life cycle. Pointing only to pieces of a particular solution is flawed.
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The Misleading Tale of Eco-Friendly
“Unfortunately, I am unable to share any details about our end markets.” This was the response I received recently, I innocently asked my local recycling facility where Tetra Paks were recycled. Using accurate information in my writing is important to me. Mostly, I was hoping it was being downcycled in Canada or better yet in…
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What is a “Carbon Footprint” anyways?
To understand what is meant by your carbon footprint, you also need to know why you should care (beyond its the right thing to do). The United Nations Global are a set of 17 commitments made by 193 world leaders, to end extreme poverty, inequality and climate change by 2030. Canada is among the world…
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Wine Bottle SOS
Calling SOS seems like the right thing to do. While we drink a glass of our favourite wine, many of us do not concern ourselves about such heavy topics such as climate change, CO2 emissions and the like. That’s ok, it is wine time after all. Those who create the problem should be the ones…
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All about Cab Sav
Cabernet Sauvignon or Cab Sav as it is affectionately referred to is the chance crossing of two parents (Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc) to create a new grape (baby) variety. It is the most widely planted grape in the world. Just like humans, each one of these beautiful babies will be a bit different depending…