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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

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Jimmy’s Gone Green

In Jimmy’s Gone Green, a group of young boys gather to consider the plight of Jimmy, their friend, who they’ve heard has gone green. The boys are panicked, believing this to be a symptom of the flu or something worse. Jimmy soon arrives to assuage their fears, explaining that he’s “just helping to keep the environment clean.” Jimmy goes on to offer 10 easy steps his friends can take to do the same.

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