outdoors

Memorial Day weekend is the official kick-off to summer, and what better way to celebrate than to host a barbecue. Whether it's just you and the kids or a neighborhood affair, check out this story to learn how to make sure your next BBQ is easy on the planet.

Clean & green...Vancouver!

A great summary of music concerts scheduled across the country for Earth Day.

A site devoted to promoting and protecting wilderness areas in California, especially southern Cal. Also includes info on such threats as the Sunrise Powerlink and Blackwater USA's proposed training facility (recently defeated).

By Lia Mack of BeGreenDesigns

So you like the elliptical trainer in the gym, but are bored always listening to your iPod and watching boring TV. Now it's time to take you exercise routine outdoors and enjoy living outside the box. Check out the Streetstrider, http://www.streetstriding.com/multimedia.html They are even planning to have it come with an indoor trainer for those rainy days.

A guide to 5 hiking trip reports from hikers who hiked the Skyline Trail in Jasper National Park at different times throughout the year. Jasper Park is one of the biggest national parks in Canada.

Camping, backpacking, hiking – these are inherently eco-friendly activities, aren’t they? What could be more green than eschewing the technological trappings of our modern society for a romp with Mother Nature? Well, these days the typical camper is no Luddite, and the average backpack contains more electrical gadgets than the average briefcase. Flashlights, cell phones, ipods, GPS receivers, digital cameras, headlamps, walkie-talkies, gameboys

Campfires are a staple of any camping trip, but if you’re transporting firewood to a campsite you could be exposing forests to an unseen threat—invasive species. So if you’re going camping remember: Buy it (or gather it) where you burn it.