Toronto schools sniff out scent-free future
The Toronto District School Board is considering making schools fragrance-free, but for now will concentrate on encouraging students and staff … Continue reading Toronto schools sniff out scent-free future
Town puts 3
In an effort to fight pollution, the northern Manitoba town of Leaf Rapids began charging a 3 Continue reading Town puts 3
Hinterland Who’s Who – Beaver
Color Scheme Generator 2
Generator of color schemes and palettes to create good-looking and well balanced and harmonic web pages. This is the new … Continue reading Color Scheme Generator 2
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Synopsis: An Inconvenient Truth (2006)Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world’s scientists are … Continue reading An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Message to Harper: Take a page from Terminator not Dubya
Sierra Club of Canada is calling on the federal government to follow the example of California?s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and … Continue reading Message to Harper: Take a page from Terminator not Dubya
Where will our garbage go?
A deal to secure peace with Michigan over unwanted shipments of Ontario’s household trash means citizens Continue reading Where will our garbage go?
The Greening of Politics – Alternatives Journal Call For Proposals
With the likes of Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Bono, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Woody Harrelson, Justin Trudeau and Sarah Harmer climbing aboard the green bandwagon, could Steven Harper be far behind? If Elizabeth May (the Green
Party?s new celebrity leader) participates in all-candidates debates, will environmental issues heat up in the next election? Whether the Liberals select Michael Ignatieff (who has proposed a selective carbon tax) or Stephan Dion (aka Mr. Kyoto), can the environment fail to permanently catch hold?
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Watershed Stewardship
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SD Webworks
SD Webworks?an online community sharing knowledge about using the Internet more effectively toward the achievement of sustainable development. Many of … Continue reading SD Webworks
Declining N.W.T. caribou herds mean fewer hunting tags
Despite a solid hunting season, outfitters in the Northwest Territories will see a decline in caribou sport-hunting next year. Continue reading Declining N.W.T. caribou herds mean fewer hunting tags
Time to ban high-seas bottom trawling
It?s easy to tune out all those bad news stories about what?s going on in our oceans. After all, when you look out over the water, it seems like everything?s fine ? same as it ever was. But look beneath those waves and it?s a different story.
Our out-of-sight, out-of-mind mentality has prevented us from really catching on to what human activities are doing to marine life ? including important species we depend on for food. Nations, industries and individuals all get away with doing things to our oceans that people would never put up with on land.