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Climate policies are good for employment, shows Pembina – GCNews #720

GREEN JOBS. Pembina Institute’s new report, Reducing Pollution, Creating Jobs: The effects of climate policies on employment, finds that Canada’s governments could create more jobs by implementing strong climate policies than by continuing with business as usual. “Renewable energy [and energy efficiency] is the pro-job (more labour intensive) choice, creating more direct jobs than fossil fuel alternatives [including carbon capture and storage]. The federal government’s economic stimulus funding for infrastructure could have created nearly three times as many jobs if it had been invested entirely in clean energy” … Germany created 300,000 jobs in 10 years with solar and renewable energy. Continue reading Climate policies are good for employment, shows Pembina – GCNews #720

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Dodging the Toxic Bullet

David R. Boyd, one of Canada’s leading environmental lawyers and an expert in the field of human health and the environment, draws on this expertise in writing Dodging the Toxic Bullet: How to Protect Yourself from Everyday Environmental Hazards, in which he provides a comprehensive assessment of practical strategies for individuals to avoid environmental health hazards. Despite the outlook, Boyd gives reasons for optimism by suggesting that environmental hazards are largely preventable. Through the conscious actions of individuals, he argues that environmental risks can be significantly reduced.

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It’s Contest Time!

To celebrate Canada Water Week (March 14-21), GreenBookReviews.ca and Alternatives Journal are giving away a library of water books!

What you could win:
Bottled & Sold by Peter Gleick
What Is Water by Jamie Linton
Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of our Water by Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman with Michael Fox.
HTO by Wayne Reeves and Christina Palassio (eds)
The Atlas of Water by Maggie Black and Jannet King
De Urbanisten and the Wondrous Water Square by Florian Boer, Jens Jorritsma and Dirk van Piejpe
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Water, a beautiful little book exploring our environmental, cultural, social and visual interactions with water, edited by John Knechtel, from the Alphabet City series.

To win, simply subscribe to Alternatives Journal during Water Week or to add another year to your existing subscription. The winner will be announced on GreenBookReviews.ca on World Water Day – March 22! Good luck!
(We apologise to our international readers, but this contest is only open to people living in Canada.)

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Events, Natural Resources Management, Quebec

Les sites contaminés : gestion des risques associés aux projets / Contaminated Sites: Managing Project Risks

21 mars 2011 – Montréal, Québec. Le déjeuner donne l’occasion aux spécialistes en environnement de réseauter et d’apprendre des spécialistes du secteur. Cette année, le thème portera sur les sites contaminés : gestion des risques associés aux projets. Les invités discuteront des modifications aux règlements et des politiques touchant le travail dans les sites contaminés au Québec, des astuces pour évaluer les risques des projets et de la mise en œuvre des stratégies de gestion du risque ainsi que des leçons tirées des projets de sites contaminés. Après une brève allocution thématique et une discussion en groupe, les participants auront l’occasion de poser des questions. Continue reading Les sites contaminés : gestion des risques associés aux projets / Contaminated Sites: Managing Project Risks