New report shows nature- friendly agriculture is necessary and possible, but farmers need support for the transition From Friends of the Earth Europe Insects are in decline across the world because of industrial farming and heavy pesticide use which are threatening food production, according to the I...
AWARE News Network The Toronto Star takes a look at Simcoe County’s plan to locate a waste-processing facility in the heart of a pristine 200-acre woodland, the county’s request to the Municipal Affairs Minister Steve Clark for a Minister’s Zoning Order (MZO) to fast-track approval ...
Ontario proposes extending endangered species act exemption for forestry sector By Liam Casey The Canadian Press Ontario has proposed extending an exemption to the Endangered Species Act for the forestry sector, a move that environmental groups say is another step toward decimating species at risk. T...
By Mike Nickerson If the clash of differing opinions brings forth the light of truth, Michael Moor’s new film, Planet of the Humans, will trigger revelations. There has been a clash! The film implies that the fossil energy required to build solar and wind generating equipment is greater than the amo...
Volunteers work on Garlic Mustard control at Tiny Marsh From MTM Conservation Association Weeding Garlic Mustard is the perfect social distancing volunteer job, with every one able to stay well apart – and enjoy the great outdoors. Join us at Tiny Marsh, northwest of Elmvale, on Saturday May 30...
From World Wildlife Fund Canada WWF-Canada is hosting a series of live webinars called Garden for Wildlife. We’re going live to give you the dirt on native plant gardening and to answer your questions. Doug Tallamy’s first book, Bringing Nature Home, awakened readers to an urgent situation: wildlife ...
A non-Indigenous gardener’s reflections From Toronto District School Board In this illustrated slide show, writer Lorraine Johnson explores the garden in the context of reconciliation and land sovereignty, looking at the ways gardening is tied to settler-colonialism and the role of native plant...
From Sierra Club Canada Dr. John Bacher, Ontario Executive Committee member and activist in the Niagara Region, has a new article on Thundering Waters. Dr. Bacher and others in the community are seeking to protect the 500-acre ecosystem, known as Thundering Waters Forest, from negative impacts of dev...
Simcoe County’s solicitor Marshall Green Letter to Springwater News from R.W. Wagner, Springwater I note some misleading comments in the “County Council Highlights” which were presented by the County to Springwater News in its edition dated April 30. In those comments, County Staff...
Barely decomposed: Contaminated forests around Chernobyl, in 2014 photo. A recent forest fire lifted accumulated radioactive material high into the sky. LiveScience photo By Peter Bursztyn Barrie Today Almost exactly 34 years ago, an older-style Soviet nuclear reactor near Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, ex...
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