Month: September 2007

Nature and Wildlife Conservation

Action needed to prevent salmon homelessness

Municipal governments and regional districts must take action to protect fish habitat in their jurisdictions, according to the David Suzuki Foundation.
Local governments in B.C. will vote on a resolution sponsored by the City of Port Moody and based on recommendations of a Foundation handbook, Zoned RS-1 (Residential Salmon-1), at the Union of B.C. Municipalities annual convention in Vancouver September 24 to 28.
The lighthearted handbook with serious intent encourages local governments to use zoning bylaws and to work with other levels of government to protect fish habitat from numerous threats, including municipal development, climate change, water use, logging, and mining.

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free “Introduction to Radical Business” seminar, Sep. 24 or 25 or 26

Hey,
I want to invite you to special two hour event that I’m hosting called
– “The Way of the Radical Business” led by Tad Hargrave to learn how
you can grow your green, community minded or holistic business with
selling out or losing your integrity.
This workshop will give you get ‘unstuck’ and find a whole new way of
looking at growing your business that doesn’t require flushing your
money down the toilet on ads or expensive marketing campaigns. Tad
specializes in effective, low/no cost, word of mouth marketing
methods.
WHAT: “The Way of the Radical Business” – a free 2 hour marketing
workshop for hippies
WHEN: Mon., Sep. 24th, 7-9PM
WHERE: Autonomous & Sustainable House & Office (9211 Scurfield Drive NW)
WHEN: Tue., Sep. 25, 7-9PM
WHERE: Arusha Centre
WHEN: Wed., Sep. 26, 7-9PM
WHERE: Jane Doe Marketplace and Cafe
For more info and to enroll:
www.tadhargrave.com/freeintro

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Food and Health

The truth about ‘organic’ food

Big money and a lack of oversight has rendered the label meaningless
CATHY GULLI | September 10, 2007 |
While working as an independent organic food inspector, Mischa Popoff says he felt like “a police officer without a billy club or handcuffs.” When he found four jugs of herbicide — each containing four litres of prohibited spray — inside one organic farmer’s garage, Popoff ordered crop sampling be done at a lab. But that never happened because, he was told by the certifying body that hired him, “it’s too expensive to run tests,” Popoff recalls. When he asked a pig producer who also grows certified organic produce to prove that he wasn’t putting liquid hog manure on those fields, which is often forbidden under organic guidelines, the farmer couldn’t, and the matter ended there.

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Food and Health

The latest hit: blueberries gone wild

Are field-grown, cross-pollinated, sprayed and mechanically picked blueberries really ‘wild’?
PAMELA CUTHBERT | September 10, 2007 |
All wild blueberries are not created equal. For one, take their “untamed” habitats. In Ontario, the little indigo-stained fruits are at the heart of a fleeting summer cottage industry, hand-raked on forest floors or rocky beds and brought fresh to market by gatherers. But in the wild blueberry belt, which runs from Quebec through Eastern Canada and down into Maine, the picture is generally less sauvage: the same species of the pea-sized berry is cultivated on vast, cleared fields, cross-pollinated with the help of imported bees, sprayed with chemicals when necessary, mechanically harvested to an average yield of 80,000 tonnes a year, frozen and then, for the most part, exported.

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