From Nature Canada, July 15, 2022 By Natasha Tucker, Mind Your Plastic Blogger You’ve probably heard the term “Circular Economy,” but do you know what it actually means? This term relates to how we use and dispose of materials, whether that’s the packaging that the items you buy come in or the produc...
Stock photoDonatello Trisolino via Pexels From OrilliaMatters, July 27, 2022 A Letter to the Editor This letter is in response to a letter regarding farmland preservation, published July 26. Mike Douglas, of Ramara, writes a cogent letter regarding preserving farmland in southern Ontario. My MSc is i...
The first Green Orillia Waterways Cleanup is taking place Sunday, July 31....
Elmvale Flow From the Tiny Cottager, July 28, 2022 The Federation of Tiny Township Shoreline Associations (FoTTSA) has negotiated a settlement of FoTTSA’s appeal of the 2021 Permit to Take Water issued by the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP) to the owners of the Teedon Pit, ...
Morgan Mansfield is encouraging residents to plant pollinator gardens to help counter the decline of monarch butterflies | Joshua J. Cotten From Simcoe.com, July 25, 2022 By Frank Matys Recent news that the monarch butterfly had been declared an endangered species may have residents wondering what, i...
Georgian Bay Forever’s Amber Gordon with one of the bottles that will be used in a project that will track the path trash takes in Georgian Bay. – Amber Gordon photo From Simcoe.com, July 26, 2022 By Ian Adams If you see someone toss a plastic bottle into Georgian Bay at the end of August...
Stock photo From OrilliaMatters, July 26, 2022 A Letter to the Editor Every municipality in Ontario is faced with row-on-row sprawl-style development and surrounding farmland is being destructively gobbled up with little regard for future agricultural needs. Over the past 150 to 200 years Canadian se...
An in-person celebration of the Nicholson Nature Reserve took place at Grant’s Woods Nature Reserve recently, and a recording of the event will be made available on YouTube. Pictured are Gary Nicholson and family, as well as staff and members of the board of directors of the Couchiching Conservancy. ...
Douglas and Bourgeois Farm is now protected from non-agricultural development. | Image supplied From OrilliaMatters, July 23, 2022 A Letter to the Editor This letter from Mike Douglas highlights the environmental benefits of working with provincial agencies to permanently protect local farms from non...
A slide displaying E. coli levels in the Township of Georgian Bay was provided to Tiny committee of the whole recently, presented by the Georgian Bay Great Lakes Foundation who are undertaking DNA testing to determine if the source is human or animal in origin. | Tiny Township From BarrieToday, July...
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