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Climate Leadership, Economic Prosperity: Suzuki

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October 30, 2009 - the Green Pages Wind turbines, southwest SK. l.p. photo Ottawa - Canada can succeed economically while meeting targets to reduce global...

Canada Sets Aside its Boreal Forest as Giant Carbon Vault

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Suzanne Goldenberg , guardian.co.uk , 29 Oc'09 By banning logging, mining and oil drilling in an area twice the size of California, Canada is ensuring its boreal forests continue to soak up carbon... Artist: Mary Jane Eichler

Organic Farming Yields Tougher Crops

by Max Ajl - Solve Climate - Sep 22nd, 2009 The future is now. What used to be scientific predictions of climate change are now upon us. This makes a major switch to organics even more urgent...

Who’s Investigating the CAFO-Swine Flu Link?

Oc 29'09 - by Tom Philpott - Grist 6 months after the outbreak, is anyone?

Who Contaminated Canada's crops?

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Martin Mittelstaedt, Globe and Mail- Wed. Oct. 28, 2009 Prairie whodunit has flax farmers baffled . A prairie flax crop, itself contaminated with GM canola "weeds!" What a tangled web have GMOs woven! l.p. photo

Climate Change Could Push up Insurance Premiums: Exec

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Winnipeg Free Press - By: Andy Blatchford - 27/10/2009 (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) Harsh weather whipped up by climate change has caused insurance claims to...