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Choosing an Online eNewsletter Tool

With all the advances and excitement over ‘Web 2.0’ these days, we’ve been inundated with emerging online avenues for marketing and communicating a message. From Flickr to YouTube to MySpace to Facebook to Delicious to Digg to Reddit and on, organizations are intelligently seeking and seizing new virtual opportunities to get the word out. Parallel to the explosion of social networking, or perhaps because of it, we’ve also witnessed and immense growth in choice in some of the more mature avenues, such as email marketing tools.

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Water

Connecting the Drops

The majestic Athabasca River has long been a source of inspiration for Albertans. It flows with seeming perpetuity across Alberta’s history and landscape but the river and watershed are at risk. Unprecedented industrial development and environmental threats such as climate change are threatening the future of the Athabasca River Basin.
Connecting the Drops is an outreach and awareness campaign that culminates in a two-month expedition along the entire length of the Athabasca River. The expedition celebrates this extraordinary western waterway, a symbol of Canadian identity and wilderness.

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Energy

Alberta Government has Head Stuck in Tar Sands

The Government of Alberta continues to fail to acknowledge the critical issues requiring immediate action, says Sierra Club of Canada in the wake of the release of the Oil Sands Consultation Final Report.
The multi-stakeholder committee tasked with drafting the framework was unable to reach agreement on key issues. Both government and industry representatives consistently supported business as usual an out of control pace of development and inadequate environmental protection, said Lindsay Telfer, Prairie Chapter Director for the Sierra Club and member of the Committee. The provincial government needs to pull their heads out of the tar sands and stop putting corporate profit before the best interest of Albertans.”

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Education and Learning

Going solo

Travel tips for women backpacking it alone
Whether it’s hiking in the Himalayas or learning Spanish in Guatemala, many women postpone their dreams of travel until “some day” because they don’t have anyone to travel with. And in today’s climate of terrorism, there’s a fear of travelling alone ? although it’s often unjustified.
By Vawn Himmelsbach, CBC News

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Netfirms Green – Reducing our Environmental Footprint

We’ ve been using Netfirms.ca for a few years now and we have been impressed with their prompt technical support and value-for dollar web hosting packages. Although we wouldn’t mind having a little more freedom regarding technical add-ons and plugins, we are nonetheless glad to hear about their green corporate initiatives. Here is their blurb from their July newsletter below….

At Netfirms we realize the impact our business has on the environment and we’re committed to making it better. That’s why we’re bringing our Netfirms Green program to life.

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Food and Health

USC Canada

Founded in 1945 as the Unitarian Service Committee of Canada, USC is a voluntary organization working to promote strong, healthy, and just communities in developing countries.
We work with partner organizations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to strengthen community livelihoods, promote food security, and support peoples??? actions for social justice and equality. In Canada, we build awareness and support for international social change through public education and policy dialogue.

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Books and Resources

Author sees happy ending without humans

Somewhere we got the crazy idea that it was all about us. You can even see it in the word we use to describe the world we’re bent on ruining: the environment ? the stuff that surrounds the mammal with the outsized brain who almost by definition (our definition, of course) is at the centre of things.
We’re not the norm, though, whatever we pretend. Our presence has been brief, almost non-existent when measured against the planet’s 4.5 billion years. And our long-term prospects are doubtful, even if we take advantage of global warming to resist the next ice age for a few measly millennia while managing to evade the killer asteroids, tectonic jolts and toxic habitats that did in our predecessors.

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