Greenspirational News: IWD, oil boom, cancer, pesticides, sewage
Angela Bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Sun Mar 8 00:12:27 EST 2009
Greenspirational News
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means
doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case,
the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
C.S. Lewis
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Mar. 8th is International Women's Day
Thank a feminist...
http://www.isis.aust.com/iwd/thankafeminist.htm
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The Canadian Oil Boom
Scraping Bottom
National Geographic's photo and text expose of the Alberta tar sands
Once considered too expensive, as well as too damaging to the land,
exploitation of Alberta's oil sands is now a gamble worth billions.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/03/canadian-oil-sands/kunzig-text
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LIGHTS OUT - EARTH HOUR
Turn off your lights on Saturday March 28, 2009 at 8:30 pm for one
hour. Millions of Canadians will turn off their lights on March 28th
for Earth Hour in support of action on climate change.
And don’t stop at turning off the lights. Think about what else can
be done to reduce your footprint like taking transit, unplugging
unused electrical appliances and washing your clothes in cold water.
The list is endless and your action will make a big difference.
http://wwf.ca/earthhour/
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Uranium Mining Poisons Native Americans
By Jeff Gerritsen
Nuclear power is often billed as clean base-load electrical energy.
However, few if any nuclear power proponents mention the unintended
consequences or the externalized costs associated with this
technology to
support the unsustainable U.S. lifestyle. A crucial part of this
story is
told by Native Americans.
http://culturechange.org/go.html?336
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FOX News and Animal Advocates on Meat-Eating Environmentalists
How can global warming activists accept and acknowledge that animal
agriculture is responsible for roughly 20 percent of the world's
greenhouse gas emissions and that switching to a vegan diet does
remarkably more to decrease a person's greenhouse gas contributions
than, say, switching to a hybrid vehicle or CFLs and then not make
that change, a change that is relatively easy to make, that is
beneficial on multiple other levels, and that can be made immediately?
http://animalrights.change.org/blog/view/
fox_news_and_animal_advocates_on_meat-eating_environmentalists
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Green bin compost too much to handle locally
Due to a shortage of Ontario facilities that convert organic waste
into compost, thousands of tonnes of green bin contents have now been
sent to New York State for incineration.
http://www.680news.com/news/headlines/more.jsp?
content=20090301_095500_4724
In light of this infuriating news, how do we in the GTA start
creating "green collar" jobs out of compost?
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American taste for soft toilet roll 'worse than driving Hummers'
Extra-soft, quilted and multi-ply toilet roll made from virgin forest
causes more damage than gas-guzzlers, fast food or McMansions, say
campaigners
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/26/toilet-roll-america
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Prevent Cancer Now, a Canada-wide network to eliminate preventable
causes of cancer, launched a new website today to help provide
Canadians with resources to fight for a cancer-free future –
www.preventcancernow.ca.
Among the new materials are:
· A toolkit to help fight the dangerous technology of
incineration. Incinerators emit hundreds of pollutants into our air,
land and water every single day, including cancer-causing agents that
build-up in our bodies. Health Canada states that the large-scale
burning of municipal and medical waste is the biggest source of
dioxins and furans. Despite this, many Canadian cities and
municipalities are now facing new incinerator proposals.
· A renewed call on the Canadian government to phase-out and
eliminate all known or suspected carcinogens in manufacturing and
industrial processes, food production and consumer products. Please
sign our declaration.
· Information on the continued shameful practices of our
federal government to actively promote the use of asbestos nationally
and internationally. Visit the new website and Take Action on asbestos.
Please visit our new website today and help us make a difference.
Sign up for our newsletter.
And please sign the incineration position statement - http://
preventcancernow.ca/main/issues-actions/stop-incineration/sign-our-
position-statement,
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Ontario Cosmetic Pesticide Ban Spring 2009!!!!!
As of April 22, 2009, more than 95 pesticides will be banned for sale
and for use on lawns in Ontario!
Here's the official word:
http://www.ene.gov.on.ca/en/news/2009/030401.php
It's a good news/bad news story, of course....
We lost golf courses, speciality turf (eg lawn bowling) but they have
stronger restrictions/requirements for pesticide use.
Urban trees can still be sprayed, as well as injected, but it has to
be determined by an arborist if pesticides are needed.
We also lost municipal authority to pass stronger bylaws.
We won:
Nearly 100 pesticide active ingredients are banned for sale and use
on lawns, including 2,4-D, Mecoprop, Dicamba, Sevin, Merit, Par III,
Weed n Feed, Roundup etc.
No spraying cemetaries
Susan Koswan <dandelion at gto.net>
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Powershift '09 - Feb. 27 - Mar. 2, Washington DC. - 12,000 youth
gathered to fight climate change!
Thank you for making history at Power Shift 2009, the largest ever
youth conference and lobby day on climate change. Thank you for
raising your voice and demanding action, stopping at nothing—not even
snow or bitter cold—until you were heard. You are the leaders of the
next American energy revolution, one that will protect our planet
while creating green jobs to build a strong and sustainable economy.
http://powershift09.org/
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Flush hour: Oslo to run buses powered by biomethane from human sewage
Free, friendly and non-fossil – biomethane from human waste will soon
power public transport in the capital city
It is available for free in huge quantities, is not owned by Saudi
Arabia and it contributes minimally towards climate change. The
latest green fuel might seem like the dream answer to climate crisis,
but until recently raw sewage has been seen as a waste disposal
problem rather than a power source. Now Norway's capital city is
proving that its citizens can contribute to the city's green
credentials without even realising it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/jan/27/biomethane-energy
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Democracy + Private Ownership = Capitalism
Democracy + Public Ownership = Socialism
Dictatorship + Public Ownership = Communism
Dictatorship + Private Ownership = Fascism
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