Sarah Cobb

Getting to know your neighbours

Par Sarah Cobb / 30 juin 2020

Like everyone else, spring for me this year meant spending a great deal of time at home with my family. We decided to invest in some bird feeders – invasion of the squirrels be damned– and play host to the local population. The number of winged friends exploded as spring progressed. Watching them flit around,…

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carbon

Offsetting Carbon

Par Sarah Cobb / 24 février 2020

You’re doing your best. You’re eating less meat, accumulating less stuff, buying local and organic. You’re cutting down on plastics, you’ve made your house more energy-efficient and maybe even switched to an electric vehicle. But faced with the thought of not taking that trip you’ve been dreaming of is getting you down. I could say…

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Susan Scott

Cover Artist Susan Scott

Par Sarah Cobb / 4 Décembre 2019

Susan Scott began her studies in Graphic Design at the Central School of Art and Design in London, England and was recruited at her graduate show to join Crosby, Fletcher, Forbes (now Pentagram). She began her Canadian career as a book designer for McClelland & Stewart in Toronto before moving to Montreal where she continued…

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building local

Building local

Par Sarah Cobb / 7 juin 2019

In the early 1900s, a newspaper, frustrated by the slow-drying newsprint in the hot, humid Brooklyn summer, hired an engineering school graduate to come up with a solution. Young Willis Carrier devised a machine that pulled the moisture out of the air in the press room. Not long after it was installed, the lunchroom emptied…

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Raising kids in the country

Raising kids in the country

Par Sarah Cobb / 24 novembre 2017

I so vividly remember sitting across from Vicki Tansey, watching her paint my three-year-old’s face just a few weeks after my husband and I and our three kids had made the big move from Montreal to Abercorn. I was like a fish out of water, having spent the first 36 years of my life in…

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Susan Briscoe walking off into the wilderness.

Rewilding

Par Sarah Cobb / 21 septembre 2017

My first real recollection of Susan Briscoe was standing beside her in the late day sunshine in the park in Sutton. I was watching this little guy, her Nathan, scale the basketball net. He was agile — uncommonly nimble — and seemed somehow suspended as he negotiated the structure on the tips of his fingers…

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Why build a passive house?

Par Sarah Cobb / 17 mars 2017

Have you ever walked past someone sitting in their parked (but running) car on a hot, summer day? They sit in air-conditioned comfort as the car’s motor pumps heat into the already scorching air. This is a pretty good analogy for the way we build homes today and how that approach contributes to the woes…

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Abercorn gold – a travel blog

Par Sarah Cobb / 21 novembre 2016

Mexico was an absolute gift as a writer. Our first family road trip to Mexico in the winter of 2009 was also my first serious attempt at blogging. The H1N1 virus was making international headlines and so were the Mexican druglords. Blogging, I thought, would be a good way of keeping the family posted on…

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