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Great public transit makes for a great city
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Fundraising Ideas, Summer Camp, Organic Waste, Fake Anti-Wind Protesters – GCNews #813
813: 8 April 2013 – Published by Green Communities Canada RAIN! See Water Canada Magazine article about how user fees and credit system helps Kitchener pay for its municipal stormwater system. Rain barrels, rain gardens, prmeable pavers (as well as cisterns and infiltration galleries) qualify for stormwater credits … RAIN! featured in insert … REEP Green Solutions is coordinating aregion-wide rain barrel [...]
Green Book Reviews
- Plato’s Revenge: Politics in the Age of Ecology
- This Soil, This Water
- The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World
- Rethinking the Great White North: Race, Nature and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness in Canada
- This Crazy Time: Living our Environmental Challenge