Lake Land Meats & Farm Market is offering a limited number of 16 - 18 week CSA (Community Shared Agriculture) subscriptions for the season. Basket deliveries will begin mid to late June, depending on the weather. Early season baskets ...

  How to Participate: 1) Read the strategy. 2) Respond: Note which suggestions you support, oppose, or would suggest changes to. Add your own ideas for policy and action. The deadline for submissions is MAY 31, 2012. 3) Submit your feedback ...

April 26, 2012 Thanks to Mark Cullen and the Toronto Star Everywhere I go these days, the questions keep coming: “What do I do about my flowering crab apple that is in bloom way too early?” or “What do I do about my ...

NIAGARA REGION, April 24, 2012 - Starting May 1, 2012 Niagara Region Transit will have a new fare structure and will begin offering monthly passes and 10-Ride Cards all aimed at making Niagara Region Transit a convenient, affordable commuting option ...

Niagara Region, April 27, 2012 - Starting Monday, April 30, the cost to place an extra bag or can of garbage out for curbside pick-up will be $2. Residents who require an additional bag/can of garbage over the weekly one bag/can limit have the option ...

For immediate releaseApril 27, 2012 Ottawa, Ontario — Royal Galipeau, Member of Parliament for Ottawa-Orleans, on behalf of the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern ...

For immediate releaseApril 27, 2012 (l-r) A demonstration taking place at the Vineland Research and Innovation Centre – Reiner Schmidt, Harvest Robotics, MP Allison, Minister Nicholson and Koshy Mathew, ...

  Monday, 16 April 2012 09:36 By Johanna Treblin, Inter Press Service | Report Water privatisation has been proven not to help the poor, yet a quarter of all World Bank funding goes directly to corporations and the private sector, bypassing ...

  Monday, 16 April 2012 09:48 By Rebecca Leber, ThinkProgress | Report Sections of drilling pipe and a drilling rig on a six-well pad in the Piceance Basin of Colorado. (Photo: Ecopolitologist) Colorado is facing drought not seen since 2002, ...

  A Brief Commentary by Doug Draper I’ve often wondered how smart we humans really are as a species on this planet. Humans and gasoline There is no doubt we possess enough intelligence to take what we’ve learned from the past ...

  By MANOHLA DARGIS No one carries a placard scrawled with “The end is near” in the nonfiction movie “Surviving Progress,” as people sometimes do in New Yorker cartoons. Its assembly of experts is far too smart and ...

Oswego, NY – New York Sea Grant’s new first-ever full-color visual identification guide for the salmon and trout species found in Lake Ontario is now available. “Salmon and Trout of Lake Ontario: A Visual Identification Guide” ...

  Inaugural Niagara VegFest coming to St. Catharines   A celebration of plant-based eating. Marni Wasserman, a certified chef and culinary nutritionist, is one of the speakers booked for Niagara VegFest. Laurie Morrison became a ...

How to Curb Discharge of the Most Potent Greenhouse Gas: A 50 Percent Reduction in Meat Consumption and Emissions Is Needed Released:4/12/2012 11:00 AM EDTSource:Woods Hole Research Center Ian Vorster - Associate Director of ...

(Photo: Daniel Valle) Gradually it's dawned on me: We humans are creatures of the mind. We perceive the world according to our core, often unacknowledged, assumptions. They determine, literally, what we can see and what we cannot. Nothing so wrong with ...

By Stefan Nicola - Mar 19, 2012 7:34 AM ET Not since the allies leveled Germany in World War II has Europe’s biggest economy undertaken a reconstruction of its energy market on this scale. Chancellor Angela Merkel is ...

By John Bacher When proponents of the Canadian Motor Speedway in Fort Erie, Ontario began their public relations campaign to sell their purported “NASCAR-like” complex, part of the sales pitch was that about a third of their 827-acre ...

TORONTO, ON –Earlier this month, the city-wide grassroots organisation Transition Toronto(TTo) was granted “official” status from its UK based Transition Network – the founders of thisglobal movement. Transition Towns, also ...

By Nadine Bells Good News Writer Jadav Payeng, known as "Mulai" to his friends and neighbours, has spent the last 30 years single-handedly planting and caring for a huge 550-hectare forest on a sandbar in the middle of the ...

Municipalities are hungry for best methods for a more sustainable and healthy environment, recognizing the benefits to all, including the bottom lines. Cities are aware that if there is to be a healthy future, it cannot be left to others, that we all ...

Thanks to the The Publisher, Dundurn Press The Environment. Those two words introduce a topic of debate that will probably become (if it isn’t already) the most important debate that will encompass the world this century. And with Canada ...

Thanks to The Canadian Press Date: Wednesday Mar. 7, 2012 11:30 AM ET TORONTO — Ontario's environmental watchdog warns the province needs to do more to offset the growing impacts of climate change, and is ill-prepared for another ice ...

Thanks to David Fleischer Mar 08, 2012 The agriculture industry is rallying to change your thinking about how food gets from the farm to your plate.“The opportunities are endless here,” Greater Toronto Area Agricultural ...

But Clover Leaf, Unico stay near bottom of Greenpeace rankings Thanks to CBC News Posted: Mar 26, 2012 11:19 AM ET Last Updated: Mar 26, 2012 3:17 PM ET Greenpeace Canada's 2012 Canned Tuna Rankings (Note:CBC does not endorse ...

By Nina Chestney LONDON | Mon Mar 26, 2012 2:30pm EDT (Thanks to Reuters and Nina Chestney) - The world is close to reaching tipping points that will make it irreversibly hotter, making this decade critical in efforts to contain ...

Thanks to Doug Draper, Niagara at Large and Dan Wilson Posted on March 26, 2012 A Brief Comment by Doug Draper, Photos by Dan Wilson As we all know, we’ve been having some unusually warm weather lately following a winter that never ...

Montreal, 26 March 2012—How quickly, and to what extent, can we make the transition to cleaner and renewable energy in North America? Do you have ideas or concerns on the policy pathway to a low-carbon future by 2030? This is your chance. Act ...

Thanks to Michael Specter and The New Yorker October 23, 2006 Most mornings, the line begins to form at dawn: scores of silent women with babies strapped to their backs, buckets balanced on their heads, and in each hand a bright-blue plastic ...

Editorial Note: CAN is non partisan and as such will not provide suggestions for direct actions to any political party or organization. CAN does however provide opportunities and education on issues relating to climate change. Water, quantity, ...

Monday, 19 March 2012 By: Emily Sohn Discovery News   The controversial hypothesis proposes that rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may be contributing to obesity (Source: Ajay Verma/Reuters)   Fuelling hunger Steadily ...

Wow what a surprise   Mar 12 2012 Alberta's oilsands face mounting protest and looming international regulations targeting the province's crude. Martin Lukacs Special to the Star The federal and Alberta governments struck up a secret, ...

2012 Farmland Preservation Forum Balancing Agriculture and Resource Demands in Rural Ontario How do we effectively balance the use of our land resources while also ensuring the long-term sustainability of farming? Do existing policies lead us ...

  Heidi Grzesina   March 3, 2012.   Wind Storm Causes Ship Collision in Port Colborne With wind storm warnings overnight, Port Colborne residents woke up March 3 to find that the severe winds caused a ship collision blocking ...

Thursday 23 February 2012 by: Richard Schiffman, Truthout | News Analysis In a match that some would say was made in hell, the nation's two leading producers of agrochemicals have joined forces in a partnership to reintroduce the use of the ...

http://www.lakelandcollege.ca/about-lakeland/news/news02221201.aspx Feb 22, 2012 - Vermilion, Alberta The development of innovative biochar technology that will help generate new economic opportunities received a boost as a result of a collaborative ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...