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Green living in the home can become a mission. Neighbors can get competitive. Weekend projects start becoming ambitious found-wood forays and re-use of household materials from throwaway: furniture becomes a new focus. Using Free cycle to locate or source a bed or project resource, versus the consumption of an over packaged new item which traveled cross country and sat in a store 24 hours a day until you come along. Green friendly lifestyles poke holes in malls full of gleaming but many times unnecessary possessions.

Home decoration and home repair projects make for some of the biggest differences in green living today. Increased sensitivity to the environment has caused many green or eco-friendly companies to form around designing new furniture from old or reclaimed furniture or wood materials. Green kitchen stone, green friendly appliances, renewable hardwoods like bamboo, and low-energy lighting strategies like task lighting create attractive living spaces with green friendly construction rules. Special finishes that incorporate recycled glass have an attractive appearance yet are made from reclaimed materials.

Thirty years ago, someone with solar reflectors on their roof was termed a hippie or an eclectic or worse an eccentric. That was then, this is now. The days of green living en masse are here. Today, a solar heating panel and the voltage it might generate is coffee shop conversation. Hybrid cars dot the streets. Recycling at home and waste pickup in containers of three colors are the norm. The big-box stores are full of Energy Star appliances. Telecommuting is becoming more acceptable.

Greater Toronto Area is the capital financial district of Ontario. GTA is Canada’s biggest city, is home to 2.6 million people and is the fifth largest city in North America.

Today, GTA is a colorful, cultured spot with warm summers and very cold winters, it is considered as the most economically vital area in Ontario, the main location of most media, finance and services, and it is also home to major corporate head offices.

Greater Toronto Area has a comprehensive public transportation system which includes long subways, buses and streetcars. Despite GTA’s growing population, it is one of the safest and cleanest metropolises in the world.

The desperate need for carbon solutions is only growing ever more apparent, since the 1980′s speculation about global warming has been in the news and yet it is only now that attitudes are changing in a desperate attempt to correct the problem as much as possible before it is too late.

There is now global need for all the super powers to combine forces in this matter to save our planet for future generations to enjoy, making extreme reductions in carbon emissions by the year 2050. The attitude now not asking why global warming is happening, but more about focusing on when it will happen, such as when, the polar ice caps will completely melt if we continue without implementing viable carbon solutions.