The first comprehensive look at the amount of raw sewage flowing into the Great Lakes from cities in Canada and the United States has found that billions of litres are being dumped untreated every year into the sources of drinking water for communities on both sides of the border.
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Alternatives Journal Dragon boat racers, soccer teams and choirs have it. The People?s Food Commission and its report, The Land … Continue reading Thought for Food
Alberta Parks celebrates its 75th Anniversary in 2007, and to commemorate this special occassion, renowned wildlife artist, Robert Bateman, has … Continue reading Newswire: Robert Bateman Paints For Alberta Parks
Tell your Member of Parliament to support a Ban on Terminator Seeds in Canada!
Continue reading “Ban Terminator Seeds: Take Action Before December 7th!”
Eleven authors, including Katherine Cinq-Mars and Robin Sears, look at the many challenges posed by climate change.
Continue reading “Policy Options (October 2006) – Climate Change”
Canada’s repudiation of its commitments under the Kyoto Protocol could harm its economy in coming years, warns the head of the United Nations Environment Program.
Fire, water, earth and air as seen through the experiences of Siberian
smokejumpers, Alaskan king crab fishermen, German miners and Russian
cosmonauts. Lushly photographed, Jiska Rickels’ stunning documentary
provides a glimpse into the tenuous and oft-times dangerous
relationship between people and the planet.
The Conservative government is planning a second wave of cuts to climate-change programs and is asking public servants to help manage the ?fallout? by explaining why their positions should disappear.
Continue reading “Ottawa planning more cuts to climate-change programs”
UBC has published “Inspirations & Aspirations: The Sustainability Strategy” to show how everyone at UBC is contributing to keeping us Canada’s leader in campus sustainability.
Continue reading “Inspirations & Aspirations: UBC Sustainability and You”
This list posting, published by FORREX Forum for Research and Extension in Natural Resources, is supported in part by BC Ministry of Forests and Range through the Forest Investment Account, Forest Science Program. For details or to contact FORREX, visit www.forrex.org
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Send a Message to the Health Minister and your MP.
Join over 230,000 others who have signed on to Make Poverty History.
Endorse the Make Poverty History campaign goals. We’re calling for more and better aid, trade justice, debt cancellation, and an end to child poverty in Canada.
Continue reading “Stephen Lewis: When will Canada act on HIV/AIDS?”
Keeping It Living brings together some of the world?s most prominent specialists on Northwest Coast cultures to examine traditional cultivation practices from Oregon to Southeast Alaska. It explores tobacco gardens among the Haida and Tlingit, managed camas plots among the Coast Salish of Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia, estuarine root gardens along the central coast of British Columbia, wapato maintenance on the Columbia and Fraser Rivers, and tended berry plots up and down the entire coast.
