The Cosmopolitan Blog

I’ve lived in many places in my life, as I will surely discuss as I develop this blog… But I was so impressed when I arrived in Canada. On the global awareness scale, Canada is way up there. They recycle like it’s 2nd nature…

I haven’t lived in london in a looong time, but I was in New York until 2004, and I can tell you, neither of these cities came close.

At work, you should see the kitchen. We have all the different recycling containers, and there’s a rotation as to who takes them to be recycled. Yes, it’s true, even the high-powered execs of my office can be seen, in turn, leaving the office with trash bags filled with stuff for recycling and they take it to the nearest center. Everyone prints double-sided like there’s no other way to do it, people don’t waste water, take their own mugs down to the coffee shop to avoid being served in styrofoam cups, all our computer monitors are LCD with automatic switch-off…

Whether it’s the clubs I’m part of, or the friends’ houses I go to, lights are switched off everything a room is left. Everyone has the different recycling boxes (or makeshift piles).

Montreal is one of the largest biking cities… Everyone bikes here. For fun, to commute… People walk (like in New York), from one end of the city to the other.

Maybe it’s really true… maybe we can shift mindsets in one generation…