Zehrs is using "Farmer's Market" as a brand name for some of their bakery products. Loblaw chief Galen Weston says farmers’ markets pose health risk February 08, 2012 Jennifer Bain TORONTO STAR/RENE JOHNSTON An off-the-cuff remark ...

Animals of the rainforest on display at Butterfly Conservatory   By Alison Langley, Niagara Falls Review February 13, 2012 The tropical warmth of the Niagara Parks Butterfly Conservatory is an oasis for its 2,000-plus winged inhabitants. It's ...

–  Additional Montreal-Ottawa & Ottawa-Toronto departures –   – NEW express trains between Toronto and Ottawa in just   3 hours 57 minutes – Montreal– In response to customer demand, VIA Rail Canada ...

Tuesday, 14 February 2012 Anna SallehABC There's more to water use than meets the eye (iStockphoto: David Gomez) Humanity uses around 9,089 billion cubic metres of water a year, mostly for agriculture, according to a new study. The study also ...

Fast food operators are challenging the right of municipalities to restrict drive-thru restaurants. Council will consider a motion tonight by Brad Clark that directs city staff to seek party status in an Ontario Municipal Board hearing examining ...

 Sustainability Series - Panel Discussions, Films, Tours  An Educational Series for Practical Initiatives hosted by Climate Action Niagara   Sept 7 2011 ...

Monday, 6 February 2012 Darren OsborneABC Silent sentinels: tree rings in the kauri show an increase in extreme weather events (Source: travellinglight/iStockphoto) Silent sentinels If history is anything to go by, periods of droughts and flooding ...

A new report released: Protecting Greenbelt Wetlands: How Effective is Policy? co-authored by Ducks Unlimited Canada, Earthroots, Ecojustice and Ontario Nature examines the Niagara Escarpment Plan, the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan and the ...

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CLIMATE ACTION NIAGARA News: As per the annual members Strategic Planning meeting held this past January 28th, 2012, members were reminded of the wealth of education and actions they have been responsible for this past year.  From the ...

Coventry Connections Invests in Local Fleet   Coventry Connections owns and operates taxi and limousine fleets across the Province of Ontario. Coventry acquired Central taxi and Central limousine in St-Catharines Ontario in April 2010 ...

Last month a poll was provided by Bullet News concerning the proposed Nascar type race track and facilities slated for 821 acres in Fort Erie.  We understand that it’s the only one to be built in the last 15 years because this ...

CLIMATE ACTION NIAGARA Introduces CAN Text Message Communication Service Receive text messages direct to any text capable cell phone for CAN events, reminders and news.  Join by texting To: 71441 the word CAN It's as simple as ...

  School_Scapes_Program_2012.pdf   Climate Action Niagara Providing opportunities for education and actions on issues relating to climate change SCHOOL SCAPES  To facilitate healthy and sustainable school grounds  with ...

Coming soon to Niagara Region! Looking to free up some room in your garage? Want to help others do the same? If you strive to drive less but you still need to use a car on occasion, carsharing may be the right alternative for you to owning a personal ...

ECO FEST NIAGARA, Niagara's greenest trade show, has been a major component of Climate Action Niagara's mandate to provide the opportunity for education and actions on issues relating the climate change.  This event assists the business ...

Suite 108 opens for business   Linda Keeping of Keeping Kitchens has a strong hospitality background paired with formal culinary and restaurant management experience which has allowed her to create and coordinate amazing events for her ...

Federal documents say environmental groups, aboriginals are 'adversaries' Bob Weber, Thursday, January 26, 2012 2:56 PM The federal government considers environmental and aboriginal groups "adversaries" when it comes to the oilsands, ...

Fort Erie Speedway   Although most residents continue to demand better health facilities, the town of Fort Erie seems determined to welcome into the community a polluting giant, the toxic effects of which could affect the health of residents on ...

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farm_ontario1.pdf For Full Report Click on the .pdf file Page 1 of 16 Farms, Farmers and Agriculture in Ontario an overview of the situation in 2011 by the National Farmers Union, May 2011 The National Farmers Union (NFU) is a direct-membership, ...

Ian Lowe ABC Environment 23 Jan 2012  It was five weeks ago - on 12 December, to be precise - that Australian cricket was in terminal decline, having lost to New Zealand on home soil for the first time in 25 years. Heads had to roll. ...

Mark CullenSPECIAL TO THE STAR Value of the trees: $32M... Everyone is the age of their heart. Cullen: Feeding the thirst... Cullen: What I learned in... Cullen: I’m dreaming of a... Landscape volunteers occupy...  “Trees can make ...

  Posted: 16 Jan 2012 11:59 AM PST West End Food Co-operative (WEFC) is our hero. The co-op began informally 2008, when it organized a farmer's market in Sorauren Park in the Roncesvalles neighbourhood of Toronto. For the first year, the market ...

January 17, 2012  Alan Broadbent mistakenly believed that pristine wilderrness like the Great Bear Rainforest was worth protecting. Jonathan Hayward photo Hello. My name is Alan, and I’m a radical environmental extremist. I don’t ...

Jan 17, 2012  Last week, Natural Resource Minister Joe Oliver launched a massive public relations offensive to silence Canadians opposed to Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline. His government is trying to manufacture a myth that ...

VIA Rail Canada is testing e-tickets on the Montreal - Quebec City trains. Here is a very short video on how it will work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ar_1alYW3M

Food. It has helped to shape our communities for 400 years. Now, for the first time and in a provocative new book, author Gord Hume explores the relationship food has with building strong communities, how it is changing neighbourhoods and local ...

  Monday 26 December 2011   Jim Hightower, Great news, people! A colony of nine-spotted ladybugs has been discovered in Amagansett, New York. This uplifting story is a rich organic mixture of state pride and nature's resilience, along ...

 A coalition of Canadian and U.S. mayors around the Great Lakes, chaired by St. Catharines, Ontario Mayor Brian McMullan, is calling on provincial, state and federal governments for public hearings and “for utmost transparency and ...

NY Times MADRID — Even on a chilly Thursday afternoon in December, the old men, engulfed in cigar smoke and reading newspapers, were sitting around chess tables under tall pines. Nearby, a young woman had strung her line between the trunks of ...

December 2011 Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the ...

Global CO2 Emissions and Concentrations Reach Record Levels Released: 12/1/2011 1:00 PM EST Embargo expired: 12/4/2011 1:00 PM EST Source: Appalachian State University Emissions expected to increase by 3.1 percent in 2011 Newswise ...

December 21, 2011 Beijing  Is there a Correlation? The multiple nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima plants beginning on March 11, 2011, are releasing large amounts of airborne radioactivity that has spread throughout Japan and to other ...

 Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 10 March 2010   The Science and Technology Committee The Science and Technology Committee is appointed by the House of ...

  Statement by R K Pachauri, Chairman of the  Wednesday 30th  November 2011   Durban, South Africa   Madame Chairperson, Distinguished Delegates, Members of Civil Society, Members of the Media, Ladies and ...

  ­Árpád Pusztai and Ignacio Chapela have two things in common: they were both distinguished scientists and their careers are now in ruins. Both issued warnings against the sale of genetically-modified food and both are now ...

Associated Press 11/21/11 GENEVA -- Global warming gases have hit record levels in the world's atmosphere, with concentrations of carbon dioxide up 39 percent since the start of the industrial era in 1750, the U.N. weather agency said ...

Nov 23, 2011 By Kerri-Ann Jennings, M.S., R.D., Associate Nutrition Editor at EatingWell Magazine As a registered dietitian and associate nutrition editor at EatingWell Magazine, I know that herbs and spices do more than simply add flavor to food. ...

    Hello from 'Our Community Food Store' food co-op development group.¦ About usWe are a group from St. Catharines ON who seek a place to shop for food within the downtown urban area. We believe ...

Located in Sutton, Ontario, member grower The Cutting Veg is a community-health promotion enterprise rooted in organic farming. They run a variety of vegetable production, food coaching & wellness counselling programs aimed at cultivating ...

Dec. 8, 2011 http://motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2011/12/superinsects-monsanto-corn-epa Back in August—as I reported here—something strange began to happen in isolated Iowa corn fields: Otherwise healthy corn plants were falling over, ...

6 December 2011 Noam Chomsky, Truthout A task of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, now under way in Durban, South Africa, is to extend earlier policy decisions that were limited in scope and only partially implemented.These ...

Sturla Gunnarsson’s “Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie” is constructed around a speech that its Japanese-Canadian subject — an engaging, erudite scientist, educator, broadcaster and eco-activist — calls his ...

The article by John Naish really struck a chord.  Incessantly we are bombarded by a constant urge to buy and consume - in every newspaper and magazine we see, in massive billboards in the streets and malls, and in hoards of flyers which come ...

by Elizabeth Kolbert December 5, 2011 Americans have never met a hydrocarbon they didn’t like. Oil, natural gas, liquefied natural gas, tar-sands oil, coal-bed methane, and coal, which is, mostly, carbon—the country loves them all, not ...

  The Government of Sierra Leone wishes to inform the General Public and the International Community that on the 3rdDecember, 2011, H.E. the President, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma will officially declare the Gola Rainforest as a National Park. ...

Nov 28 2011 Nicole Winfield Associated Press  http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1093490  ROME—The United Nations has completed the first-ever global assessment of the state of the planet’s land resources, ...

Nov 29 2011 The Associated Press   DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA—World temperatures keep rising, and are heading for a threshold that could lead to irreversible changes of the Earth, the UN weather office said Tuesday. 2011 is tied for ...

Companies including Bloomberg, Motorola and Lego have agreed to source at least a quarter of their energy from wind power under a scheme designed to drive investment in renewable energy. The WindMade label, which is backed by WWF and the Global Wind ...

8-80 is offering professional consultation opportunities to a limited number of communities who  are looking to make public spaces more engaging for people. 8-80 Cities is looking for sites across Ontario to participate in a community-led process ...

The world needs a new economic order if it is to mitigate the effects of climate change, former Liberal leader and onetime environment minister Stéphane Dion told a local environmental group on Sunday. With a previous limit on global warming ...

CATCH News – November 22, 2011 Environment Canada testing has found aircraft hydraulic fluids in the streams flowing from Hamilton’s airport. The peer-reviewed study has also confirmed extremely high levels of PFOS (perfluoroctane ...

Dr. Faisal Moola, PhD, Director, Terrestrial Conservation and Science at the David Suzuki Foundation  regarding their latest report Natural Policy Review. Close to 80 % of Canadians now live in cities and suburbs. As a consequence, how we manage ...

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 Is now available in Canada.  Price $32.95 Canadian.  ISBN 9781603583923 We suggest that members purchase the book through your local bookstore orthrough a Canadian on-line retailer.  Canadian distributors for Chelsea Green Books

In the world of marketing, advertisers can create their image and messages with virtual freedom. But that's not the case when it comes to "green" products - because the scrutiny is too intense. This week, Terry O'Reilly looks at the ever-changing world ...

Radio Liberty Seminar, October 23, 2011, Aptos, California. Rosalind Peterson and Allan Buckmann present their findings relating to geo-engineering.  Video Link ...

Niagara Region, Nov. 15, 2011 - As part of international GIS day on Nov. 16, Niagara Region is launching a new and improved version of its popular Niagara Navigator, a public interactive web mapping tool, which provides information on properties, ...

 Fort Erie, ON:  Residents of Fort Erie concerned about the proposed motor speedway development for the town will want to put January 17th, 2011 on their calendar.  This is the rescheduled date set by the Ontario Municipal Board for a ...

Globe and Mail, Monday, Nov 14, 2011 In office towers throughout Toronto landlords and tenants are working together to reduce energy waste. This type of collaboration is a key element of a unique energy challenge under way in the Greater Toronto Area ...

These green-certified structures are relatively new to Canadian architecture. The first building stamped with a designation of LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) was a technology centre in Victoria a decade ago. More related to this ...

Jeani Thomson has been pleading with New York state officials for more than 30 years to protect her neighborhood from the foul-smelling "blue fog" that settles in her yard. She has long suspected the source is an industrial facility about a mile from ...

Eradicating Ecocide: Laws and Governance to Prevent the Destruction of Our Planet.  Shepheard-Walwyn, September 2010  http://www.eradicatingecocide.com/the-book/ 1.“Eradicating Ecocide highlights the need for enforceable, legally ...

November 2, 2011 The Regional Municipality of Niagara, Ontario announced this week it has initiated a Class Environmental Assessment to evaluate options for the Port Weller wastewater treatment plant in the City of St. Catharines. As part of the ...

Final draft of a report from the UN climate panel warns that weather extremes will come at a huge cost Associated Press guardian.co.uk,Tuesday 1 November 2011 17.31 GMT Article history Bangkok residents make their way through ...

Driving into Fenwick, Ontario to visit my cousins, I saw this incredible pear orchard!  The pears were green and all the leaves had turned to crimson and burnt orange.  I am not sure I have seen a prettier site at an orchard.  I was ...

OBERLIN, Ohio IN this verdant lawn-filled college town, most people keep their lawn mowers tuned up by oiling the motor and sharpening the blades. Eddie Miller keeps his in shape with salt licks and shearing scissors. Mr. Miller, 23, is the founder of ...

Melanie Mullen recently got accredited by the United Nation Secretariat to attend the upcoming South African UN conference and is close to meeting the financial goals with an online fundraiser. As we get closer to the conference, things are going ...

St. Catharines-Thorold Chamber of Commerce Awards: Algoma Central named business of the year Algoma Central Corp. was named business of the year Thursday night at the eighth annual St. Catharines-Thorold Chamber of Commerce Business Achievement ...

A sharply-worded decision of the Ontario Municipal Board has ridiculed Hamilton’s almost-empty Airport Business Park and has overruled city objections to a religious conference centre on lands that are now also part of the aerotropolis. The ...

Growing trees from seedGrowing trees from seed is a highly rewarding experience. Even if you grow many trees from seed, you'll find your friends and neighbors will be more than willing to take your excess seedlings off your hands. Growing specific ...

Chem-Trails officially do not exist A Petition to the Canadian House of Commons Regarding Chem-Trails: The Government's Response;  Petition No. 372-1644  By: Mr. Herron  Date: June 3, 2003 Response by the Minister of State and ...

FACT: The Green Energy Act will not dramatically increase the price of electricity.  Even if Ontario stopped all new investment in renewable power today, electricity prices would continue to rise. This is due to the inevitable expense of ...

FC Expert Blogger Curt StagerWed Oct 19, 2011 This blog is written by a member of our expert blogging community and expresses that expert's views alone. Rick Perry's administration has forced a report on the effects of climate change on Texas to ...

Monday, October 17, Rome – “The CFS… what the heck is it and why should I care?” you might ask. But if you’re concerned about the global food crisis, the Committee for World Food Security is hugely important. Here are two ...

CAN Chair, John Bacher and his wife, Mary Lou Jorgensen Bacher are leading a Billion Tree Challenge Cycling Ride from Guelph to the home of former Ontario Premier, E. C. Drury, at Crown Hill northeast of Barrie, on October 12th and 13th. The ride will ...

Ontario can lower residential and industrial energy bills, reduce the provincial deficit and create jobs by increasing its energy productivity according to our new report, An Energy Efficiency Strategy for Ontario’s Homes, Buildings and ...

Nation of Change Progressive Journalism for Positive Action Oct 14-11 The global nuclear industry and its allies in government are making a desperate effort to cover up the consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. “The big lie ...

ENERGY & EQUITY: How we turned a blessing into a curse, and ways to atone. Part one. By Andrew Nikiforuk, 14 Oct 2011, TheTyee.ca Canada has joined the ranks of exporting oil nations and now supplies more petroleum to the United States than ...

says Canada-led study. A newly published blueprint for doubling the global food supply includes a key suggestion about how everyone can contribute to this increasingly pressing ambition: eat less meat. An international team of researchers has ...

Cleanup Agencies begin cleanup of a property on Catherine St. N. This photo shows the interior of the building just inside a front door. Ron Albertson/The Hamilton Spectator City of Hamilton contractors began the first steps of ...

There are problems with the way Health Canada assesses pesticides, allowing the use of products that harm human and ecosystem health, said Warren Bell, a Salmon Arm doctor and past founding president of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the ...

Ionizing radiation expert, Professor Chris Busby, indicates; Low Exposure to Radioactive Caesium from Fukushima will cause permanent heart disease in children, and is why some children are now having heart attacks.   And, that the ...

10 Oct 2011 General Electric (GE) has signed a $115m deal to help build 500MW of Indian wind farms, joining the growing list of investors betting on one of the world's fastest-growing green energy markets. GE Energy ...

Patrick Lango, operator of White Cow Dairy farm in East Otto, speaks Tuesday at TEDxBuffalo about how he turned to small-scale production of high-quality yogurt and custard to keep his business alive. TEDx aims for innovation Buffalo ...

To remain competitive in today's marketplace, businesses strive for differentiation. One of the most promising ways for gaining that competitive advantage in recent years has been through a dedicated, company-level focus on sustainability. We now ...

How Companies Gain Strategic Advantage by Managing Carbon By Kathy Nieland October 10, 2011 To remain competitive in today's marketplace, businesses strive for differentiation. One of the most promising ways for gaining that competitive ...

07 Oct 2011 Military airplanes from Australia and New Zealand are delivering a large desalination unit to the drought-stricken Pacific nation of Tuvalu, where water supplies have nearly run dry after six months without rain. The tiny island nation, ...

For environmentalists protesting the Keystone XL pipeline, the battle is about more than just transporting tar sands oil from Alberta. It’s about whether the United States — and the rest of the world — will finally come to its senses ...

   Gundersen expresses concerns that the nuclear industry and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission are not addressing major safety issues that have become evident since Fukushima. These issues include serious design flaws in the BWR Mark 1 ...

Adaptation key to limiting costs, report says Climate change could cost Canada billions a year as early as 2020, depending on how severe it is and how well the country adapts, says a report released Thursday morning. The National Round Table on the ...

Mattel, the company behind Barbie, has announced that it will stop buying paper and packaging linked to rainforest destruction! As part of its new commitment, Mattel will no longer source products from companies linked to deforestation.This ...

    ‘Listen my children and you shall hear Of the long ride of the centuryIn early October of 1905Hardly a man is now aliveWho remembers that famous day and year’ By John Bacher Usually when people ...

So what the heck is a pawpaw? Recently, I heard about a secret snack. Kayakers who paddle the waters near Washington, D.C., told me about a mango-like fruit that grows along the banks of the Potomac — a speckled and homely skin that hides a ...

Study sees 'alarming' use of energy, materials in newer manufacturing processes    Modern manufacturing methods are spectacularly inefficient in their use of energy and materials, according to a detailed MIT analysis of the energy use ...

 Study sees 'alarming' use of energy, materials in newer manufacturing processes    http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/energy-manufacturing-0317.html    David Chandler, MIT News Office  March 17, 2009  ...

Oct. 2011 Welcome to The Atmospheric. In this issue we share information about sharing solar, our latest ClimateSpark challenge and shopping in the subway. Share this with your friends and colleagues Help us reduce When it comes to ...

Cherise Burda — Oct. 3, 2011 Ontarians head to the polls on Thursday to elect the next provincial government, at the close of an election campaign where green energy has emerged as a hot-button issue. As the rhetoric has escalated on all sides ...

Jan. 11, 2011:  Scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth, a phenomenon never seen before. Scientists think the antimatter particles were formed inside ...

9/15/11 Prof Chris Busby – Fukushima’s Reactors (containing 2,000 tonnes of uranium) & thousands of tonnes of Depleted Uranium (used in NATO and US munitions and created from spent nuclear fuel) is permanently reducing human ...

In case you haven’t noticed, the world is on the verge of a horrific global food crisis.  At some point, this crisis will affect you and your family.  It may not be today, and it may not be tomorrow, but it is going to happen.  ...

Environment Canada cutting part of ozone-monitoring program September 21, 2011Heather Scoffield OTTAWA—Environment Canada is admitting that a large chunk of its ozone-monitoring program is being cut, but insists that its capacity to measure the ...

We are in a food emergency. Speculation and diversion of food to biofuel has contributed to an uncontrolled price rise, adding more to the billion already denied their right to food. Industrial agriculture is pushing species to extinction through the ...

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This week I spoke at the Canadian Geothermal Association conference in Toronto about an issue of great concern for those in the industry: public disinterest. It doesn’t seem to matter that geothermal energy is clean and abundantly available in ...

Wind farm rising in West Niagara By Shawn Jeffords Posted 12 hours ago LINCOLN — West Niagara could soon be home to a $550-million wind farm, which could create jobs and lure investment to the region. So says Randi Rahamim, a spokeswoman for ...

THIS city contains 20,000 vacant lots, more or less. Probably more. Every year, demolition crews knock down another 1,000 houses. And the housing market being what it is, few souls are returning. A vacant lot may be a lot of things: an eyesore, a dump, ...

It was seven years ago that Ontario farmer Bruce Ribey first considered the notion: Would he allow wind-power turbines to be built on his land? There’d be money in it, but wind power was largely uncharted territory for Mr. Ribey and his ...

29th June 2011  BBC   In Madagascar, an estimated 65 percent of the population of 19 million live on little more than US$1 a day and the country has long been plagued by political crises. Climate change adds insult to injury. Farther ...

WAINFLEET — If huge industrial wind turbines are really as safe as the companies building them say they are, John LaForet wonders why those same companies are so averse to the idea of independent scientific studies to support those claims. The ...

Toronto ranks among “greenest” North American cities September 08, 2011 Vancouver has handily beat Toronto as the “greenest’’ city in Canada and the second overall in North America, coming in just behind San Francisco in ...

Tawse Winery owner Moray Tawse, with the winery in the background. Photo special to Bullet News. Bullet News VINELAND – Tawse in Vineland has been named Canada’s 2011 Winery of the Year. It’s the second year in a row the ...

Protests demand Obama use veto power to halt proposed expansion of Keystone XL pipeline that would carry tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.  August 30, 2011 Real News Network Report (7 minute)--->>  ...

PickYourOwn.orgWhere you can find a pick-your-own farm near you!OntarioAdd this page to your favorites! - Updated daily! - Email this page to a friend, or to yourself Organic farms are identified in green!  See our guide to local fruit and ...

Politicians in Michigan are growing alarmed at Ontario’s plans to bury waste from a nuclear power plant on the shores of Lake Huron. “What fool would put nuclear waste under the Great Lakes?” one local Michigan official has ...

Study co-authored by UBC scientists says Canada must adapt CBC News Last Updated: Nov 21, 2011 Canada's fishing industry is going to have to adjust to changes caused by the world's warming oceans, a new study suggests. (Andrew ...