If the thought of reducing your meat consumption makes your skin crawl just a little, there are at least some greener alternatives that allow you to have your steak and eat it too.

Rideau Farming produces and sells beef that is 100 per cent farm raised in a natural, traditional style. Their cows are grass-fed, then corn finished and free from hormones, antibiotics and steroids. Beef is dry aged for two to three weeks, fresh frozen and wrapped in environmentally safe butcher paper. The farm currently has special BBQ packages available for the summer season which include seven to 10 thick steaks in a variety of tender cuts, a couple of roasts weighing between two to three pounds each, 2- quarter-pound beef patties, six one-pound packages of ground beef and shish kabob-ready cubed meat in one pound packages.

Rideau Farming also does their best to maintain healthy environmental practices by participating in initiatives such as the Rural Clean Water Program and an Environmental Farm Plan through the Ontario government.

Learn more about their earth-conscious farming practices or place an order after the jump.

» Rideau Farming (Official Site)

Ontario is striving to strengthen their economy and protect the environment at the same time. Now with some help, they may have just taken a big step in that direction.

California-based company Better Place will set up an office in the Canadian province in a new initiative that is meant to expedite the process of getting electric vehicles on the road. A study to be released in May will take a look at possible financial incentives, preferred access to the transportation grid, the public education and promotion of electric vehicles in Canada and improved procurement policies that could help electric vehicles transition into fleet services more smoothly.

Better Place plans to build an electric car demonstration and education center in Toronto as part of the program, and estimates that every 10,000 electric vehicles on the road will offset more than 40,000 tons of carbon dioxide each year. One of Better Place's big initiatives is offering subscribers an open network of battery exchange stations and charge spots. Bullfrog Power, a local provider, will supply the electricity using local renewable resources.

Watch the video below for more details!

» The Auto Channel

Today, Environment Minister John Gerretsen is signing a regulation to put into place a new electronics recycling program.  This new program will include per item fees for all televisions and computers sold in Ontario.  This is the first step of a new program that will hopefully see manufacturers make greener and easier to recycle products.

Producers and importers will have to start paying the fees.  $10 for TV's and $2 - $13 for computers, beginning April 1, 2009.  All fees collected will go to an organization established by Waste Division Ontario and will be used to fund the collection and recycling of the products from hundreds of drop-off locations which will be established across the province.

Read the rest of Mike's story by visiting The Environmental Age after the jump!

» The Environmental Age