The Chemicals Health and Pregnancy (CHirP) study is looking for women who are less than 15 weeks pregnant to participate.

The CHirP study is addressing how certain environmental chemicals affect thyroid hormones during pregnancy. The chemicals being studied include flame retardants (PBDEs) and stain and water repellents (PFCs), which are common in homes and workplaces. Some of these chemicals leach out of household products and accumulate in human tissues.

Chickens feathers and slugs have given way to pumice and
curved walls. As May comes to a close who would have imagined that playing in
the mud, learning code and experimenting with pumice would garner so much
interest, and that so much fun and excitement could come out of a little bit of
arbutus, recycled glass blocks, a roto tiller, our first workshop of the

Please see the pdf's below for position descriptions.

The Government of Canada undertakes a number of programs, activities, and research and development projects, as well as offering financial incentives related to sustainable buildings. The newly updated site provides descriptions of these initiatives and links to additional information, including Case Studies carried out by Light House in the spring of 2006.