Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty will mark Earth Day this morning by announcing a province-wide ban on the sale and use of lawn and garden pesticides.
It's a good move (lawn care companies may disagree) but we are leagues behind the Europeans, environmentally speaking. For instance many EU supermarkets do not give out disposable bags, either paper or plastic. In many large stores you must remember your panier à provisions or you are forced to either buy a cloth bag or carry your baguette, olives, wine etc. in your arms. Lights in hotel rooms turn off automatically when you leave your room, recycling is comprehensive, more solar power is used and there is better public transit. Overall the cars they drive are smaller and use cleaner diesel. The little Peugeot we rented for 10 days used less than a tank of diesel and we did a lot of driving.
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