Environment

Twike photos -

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Velomobile images from this Japanese blog -

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UWO PIRG Feminist Action working group presents: Enviro Menstruation UCC Awareness Day UCC Atrium 10am-4pm Thursday Febuary 21 / 08 - Come check out our awareness table around environmentally friendly menstruation product(s) alternatives.  - Information pamphlet on documented health concerns over co  read more »

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 http://reddotcampaign.ca/ 

I heard about this on the CBC and I'm surprised it isn't more widely known ~ apparently its been available for several years.  Canada Post has a wesbsite you can go to to remove your address from advertisers' mailing lists.  Canada Post claims they will respect your wishes if you put up a note that says "No Flyers Please", although ad-mail addressed to a name in the household is usually still delivered. This website has a link to the Canadian Marketing Association's Do Not Contact Registry, with a form that I assume will remove your name from some national admail list.  There's also a letter to download, sign and give to your letter carrier (no envelope required) to further your request to eliminate junk mail from Canada Post.  read more »

Anything that I try to say here will simply pale in comparison to what you discover when you check out the Greenpeace simulation of what a sustainable city might look like. Check it out HERE .

 

I’m tired. And I’m cold. Oh boy, am I cold. But it’s important to me that I get this out while I can still remember it. So, I’ll do that as best I can, and I’ll ask that you indulge me while I try to tell you this story. It’s going to be fairly long-winded I think, so you may want to grab some milk & cookies first… that’s always pretty good at bedtime…

<!--break--> Monday evening was Committee night down at City Hall. It was an unusually attractive night to be there, with lots of things being addressed which interest me. True, they were all going on in different rooms at the same time. And true, the proceedings were so hard to hear that sometimes I had to strain through my trifocals and try to lipread what was being said. And true, the noise at the back of the room and the noise coming from outside in the hall made the job of trying to follow along just a little bit more difficult. But that’s nothing new, and nobody’s in a hurry to fix it, so you learn to tolerate it.  read more »

The Salvation Army’s shelter on Jarvis Street in Toronto plans to launch it’s WeloBike Project 2008/02/12. The initiative will depend upon volunteers to pedal old exercise bikes that have been retrofitted to allow generated energy to be stored in attached battery packs. That reserve of energy will then be used to light the shelter’s rooms.

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From StudioBendib

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A related article -

John Ross at Counterpunch - "Zero Hour: NAFTA and Mexico's Agrarian Apocalypse"
(I haven't read all of it.)

Toban
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