Salvation Army pays £11m for recycling company after questions over directors’ payThe Guardian April 2 2012The Salvation Army is paying nearly £11m to buy the controversial company which holds the long-term contract to collect clothes from its recycling banks.Read more...
Solid Waste & Recycling Nagazine Apr 2, 2012A relatively new organization -- EPR Canada -- has launched a new measure to study the extended producer responsibility (EPR) programs burgeoning in every province across Canada. ...
By Stuart Trew Council of Canadians April 3 2012Add Peterborough, Niagara Falls and Oakville (all in Ontario) to the list of cities to pass motions calling for more input into ongoing Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) negotiations.Read more...
By Craig & Marc Kielburger Vancouver Sun April 2 2012Standing before the massed representatives at the United Nations, Bolivian Ambassador Pablo Solon raised one hand and slowly snapped his fingers – once, twice, three times. Then he held up one finger. With that quiet gesture, he hammered...
from Water Defence March 31 2012Natural Gas Exxposed tells the stories of Americans whose lives have been devastated by gas drilling.Watch the video...
Moving from regulatory review to regulatory approval By Kate Harries AWARE Simcoe March 30 2012Canada’s environment is under attack as never before. It’s not just that we happen to have a land that’s rich in natural resources of every kind. It’s that 21st century technology can extract and destroy at...
Grassy Narrows calls on Ontario to fund permanent community run environmental monitoring station; 2010 study shows mercury in fish still often above safe levelGrassy Narrows news release March 28 2012Fifty years ago this month, in March 1962 Dryden Chemicals began dumping an estimated 10 metric tonne...
Don’t gut Fisheries Act, scientists urge Harper By Gloria Galloway Globe and Mail Thursday, March 22, 2012 More than 600 Canadian scientists, including some of the county’s leading experts in environmental protection and animal research, are asking Stephen Harper to abandon plans to remove habitat pr...
Ontario Farmland Trust email March 22 2012The Farmland Trust has just launched an online Farmland Preservation Awareness survey. Survey participates are asked general questions about their awareness of land conservation, land use policies and agriculture in their community. We hope to have a diversit...
Email from Mike Nickerson March 22 2012When we can see a solution, it's easier to admit that there is a problem.Transition Orillia and Lakehead University are hosting an evening aboutLiving on Earth as if we want to stay...
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