The tiny town in northern Manitoba that was first in Canada to ban plastic shopping bags is now turning its attention to gas-powered vehicles.
Leaf Rapids Mayor Ed Charrier wants residents to drive electric golf carts around town instead. “Why would you start your vehicle for a two-second ride uptown?” asked Charrier, who plans to buy his own cart next spring. “Jump in a golf cart.”
A new Greenpeace report released on August 20th reveals that Canadian, American, and European corporations are fueling the destruction of Canada?s Boreal Forest to create everyday consumer products.
Download the full report here…
Continue reading “Greenpeace names the names behind forest destruction”
*The E-Update � August 20, 2007*
The Newfoundland and Labrador Environment Network
A Network of more than 30 Member Groups
Many Voices for the Environment
Take a look at out your front window at the smog that hangs in the distance. Then direct your gaze at the ceramic vase on your coffee table. There’s an unexpected link between the two ? one may eventually come to deal with the scourge of the other.
Scientists in Britain have developed a way to use ceramic to potentially slash the amount of climate-changing greenhouse gases pumped into our atmosphere by fossil fuel-fired power plants, which continue to dominate the electricity-generation landscape in North America.
Stars are bringing their vehicles into line with preserving the environment
Neil Vorano, CanWest News Service
Published: Friday, August 17, 2007
Ecological footprint measures people’s demand on nature. It includes the resources consumed and the waste generated and compares this to what the earth is able to provide. It enables people to understand the impacts of their individual actions and can inform policy and political decision-making.
Local Food Plus (LFP) is an award winning non-profit organization that brings farmers and consumers to the table to share in the benefits of environmentally and socially responsible food production. They are committed to building and fostering local sustainable food systems by certifying farmers and processors and linking them with local purchasers.
Read their Ten Guiding Principles…
The E-Update � August 13, 2007
The Newfoundland and Labrador Environment Network
A Network of more than 30 Member Groups
Many Voices for the Environment
For the first time in British Columbia, perhaps in Canada, logging has been ordered stopped in a watershed because it … Continue reading Sunshine Coast logging labelled ‘health hazard’
As premiers gather in Moncton for the Council of the Federation meetings, federal inaction on climate change has put climate change at the top of the agenda.
In order for the provinces to fill the gap left by the federal government, they must start by requiring absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions from industry that align with the reductions scientists tell us we need to avoid dangerous climate change, said Canada’s Climate Action Network – a network of more than 60 environmental organizations.
Continue reading “Provinces asked to regulate main sources of global warming pollution”
Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun
Published: Thursday, August 09, 2007
The Fraser River delta could lose up to one-third of its tidal marshes — critical habitat for both juvenile salmon and waterfowl — during this century due to rising sea levels resulting from global warming, a study published in the journal Global and Planetary Change warns.
Continue reading “Warming threatens crucial Fraser habitat, study says”
Early this morning, Greenpeace activists labelled a genetically engineered (GE) corn field near Abbotsford, B.C. with a 61 metre question mark to highlight the absence of GE food labelling in Canada.
Check out the full report from Greenpeace on the toxicity of genetically modified corn, and learn why they are calling for mandatory labelling of GE foods in Canada.
Continue reading “Big question marks on genetically engineered corn”
