Is there anything better than the feeling of a clean and organized home? Spring may have already sprung, but summer can also be the perfect season to refresh your surroundings and rejuvenate your mind. Here’s how.

Cleaning

Life is about balance. We provide you with strategies for a lifelong commitment to strength and well-being in all areas of your life. 

Lifestyle

Composting helps to keep food waste out of landfills. By composting food waste at home, we can create a rich natural fertilizer that's good for the garden.

Dishing up the Dirt about Composting - alive

Food Waste

Climate Change

Organic, hydroponic, regenerative … the landscape of food production is changing and so are the certifications. Explore the role soil should play in it all and how to navigate the choices for both people and planet.

Organic Agriculture

While globalization in our food systems may have provided solutions in decades past, it’s also resulted in homogeneous diets, reduced local economies, uncertain supply chains, and environmental repercussions. How can we sustainably produce food for a growing population?

food security

Protect our planet better. Sustainability is the foundation of natural health. We teach you how to embrace a more sustainable lifestyle, one step at a time, because a healthier planet means a healthier you.

Sustainability

Discover how The Land Between charity is working to bring long&#x2d;term resiliency to the land and habitat of this rare and vulnerable region.

Inspiring Story

Yoga retreats are an excellent way to kick-start a new practice or dig deeper into an established one. Choose from one of these unique yoga adventures.

Choose Your Own Canadian Yoga Adventure | alive

Water Fitness

Land and sea may seem like opposites, but the two are intricately connected. What happens on land, especially with our soils, has an impact on the health of our oceans, and it’s imperative to the well&#x2d;being of all living things that both are treated carefully.

Sustainability Initiatives

This plastic pollution comes with distinct health concerns, and Canadian inventors are focused on transforming the crisis.

microplastic

Family comes first. We equip you with the tools to create a holistically healthy family now, and for generations to come.

Family

Foraging can transform the way you see the world around you—plus, it’s a free source of vitamin-rich foods, and it can improve your mental health.

Foraging: Why You Should Explore Wild Flavours | alive

outdoors

Food is medicine. It all starts here. We create recipes with functional, whole organic ingredients that nourish your body and feed your soul. 

Food

How does Leilani Münter manage to be both an environmental advocate and a race car driver? Her answer might surprise you.

Leilani Münter: Meet the Race Car Driver Who's Also an Eco-Activist | alive

Personal Story

Organic and biodynamic farming practices are kind to the planet. They produce healthier soil, avoid the use of pesticides, and care for livestock humanely.

Our water supplies are becoming tapped out. By 2030, it's predicted that water demand will exceed the sustainable supply by 40 percent. What can we do now?

Environmental Concerns

Summer is the perfect time to venture outside of your comfort zone! Paddleboarding is fun and easy to learn, and it's a surprisingly good workout.

How to Paddleboard Like a Pro | alive

Fitness

When you step up to support your local organic farmer, you vote for better health, ethical treatment of animals ... and even the preservation of our planet.

The Organic Question: What Does Buying Organic Really Mean? | alive

Organic Meat

Is midlife malaise dragging you down? You’re not alone. Read on for ways of navigating midlife slumps with a positive attitude toward your past and future and enthusiastic engagement in the present.

wellness

This crunchy salad features two of the stars of spring―snap peas and asparagus―in a mildly spicy peanut dressing.

wildlife wednesday

Your Smart and Sustainable Cleaning Routine

Dishing Up the Dirt About Compost

Permafrost: Not So Permanent

Organic Has Company

Sustainable Nutrition

A Voice for the Land

Choose Your Own Yoga Adventure

Land and Sea

The Big Problem with Microplastics

The Sports Stars Next Door

Gotta Getaway

Wild Things

Revved up With Leilani Münter

Organic and Biodynamic Farming

Water Supplies from the Ground Up

Paddleboard Like a Pro

The Organic Question

What Crisis?

Kombucha Float

Basil Shrimp and Glass Noodle Lettuce Cups

Colourful Open-Faced Lunch

Snap Pea, Asparagus, and Quinoa Salad with Peanut Dressing

Nutty Shredded Reds

Moong Dal with Red Hot Tadka