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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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Environment Groups’ Education Campaign on Ontario’s Energy Future

“Renewable is Doable” is the key message of a voter education campaign launched today by WWF-Canada, The Pembina Institute, Greenpeace, Ontario Clean Air Alliance and Sierra Club, Ontario Chapter. The groups are asking Ontarians to consider a clean, climate-friendly energy future when they cast their ballot on October 10.
“All political parties are courting the environmentally-conscious voter,” said Dr. Keith Stewart of WWF-Canada. “People don’t look to environmental groups to tell them who to vote for, they look to us for clear, reliable information that will help them to evaluate policies, which is what the Vote for Clean Energy campaign provides.”

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Nature and Wildlife Conservation, New Brunswick

Unplugging Canada’s worst river

Moncton’s fish are in luck
PATRICIA TREBLE | August 27, 2007 |
When Roly MacIntyre moved to Moncton, N.B., in 1965, the Petitcodiac River was a great place for salmon fishing. But the salmon, shad, tomcod and most other species are gone from what is now Canada’s most endangered river. The problem is a 40-year-old causeway linking Moncton with suburban Riverview. Twice a day, tides from the Bay of Fundy push up the Petitcodiac, reversing the waterway’s flow. But virtually all the sediment and the fish are stopped when the tidal bore reaches the causeway. Only a small meandering channel is left to cut through the sprawling mud flats — which can be rather odorous in the summer — that block 92 per cent of the river’s width near the causeway.

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Sarah Harmer – Escarpment Blues

In 2005, Harmer co-founded PERL (Protecting Escarpment Rural Land), an organization which campaigned to protect the Niagara Escarpment
from a proposed gravel development which would see parts of the
wilderness on the Escarpment destroyed. To support the organization,
she and her acoustic band embarked on a tour of the Escarpment, hiking
the Bruce Trail
along the Escarpment and performing at theatres and community halls in
towns along the way. A documentary DVD of this tour was released in
2006 as Escarpment Blues.

Her fourth album, I’m a Mountain, was released in Canada on November 8, 2005 and in the United States in February 2006. It was nominated for the inaugural Polaris Music Prize,
a critic’s selected $20,000 cash prize for the Canadian album of the
year. Harmer has performed and canvassed in support of the NDP and Marilyn Churley, her friend in the fight for the protection of the Niagara Escarpment.

In February of 2007, Harmer received three Juno Award nominations. I’m a Mountain was up for Best Adult Alternative Album and her DVD Escarpment Blues
was up for Best Music DVD. Sarah herself was also up for Songwriter of
the Year for her work on “I Am Aglow”, “Oleander” and “Escarpment
Blues”. Also in 2007, she reunited with Weeping Tile to record a song,
“Public Square”, for the Rheostatics tribute album The Secret Sessions.

Source: Wikipedia (extracted Sept. 9th, 2007)

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