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Manitoba Brings in New Rules Governing Livestock Waste

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Winnipeg Free Press - By: Staff Writer - 16/10/2009 l.p. Photo WINNIPEG - The province announced today that it is implementing new rules for livestock waste, in the wake of heated...

BC Funds Reduced-Pesticide Use Research Facilities

MB Co-Operator - Oc.15-'09 State-of-the-art labs for research into ways to reduce pesticide use will open Fri....

BIODIVERSITY: Earth's Life Support Systems Failing

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Stephen Leahy - Inter Press Service UXBRIDGE, Canada, 13 Oct (IPS) - The world has failed to slow the accelerating extinction...

West Side Power Line Could Cut Through Forest Reserves

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Winnipeg Free Press - By: Staff Writer - 14/10/2009 Artist: Mary Jane Eichler WINNIPEG — The west side power line will skirt provincial parks but it could cut through several forest reserves, according to...

Larry Writes to the Prime Minister

Please note the response from the PMs office (I'm taking his answer as a "no.") & Green Party Leader, Elizabeth May at the end. ========= Dear Honourable Prime Minister, Is it true that you won't be attending the key climate change summit in Copenhagen in December? Here is what the Environment Canada website says about this. "Canada will be represented at COP 15 by the Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of the Environment, and by Michael Martin, Chief Negotiator and Ambassador for Climate Change." Surely your absence will only deepen the already deep cynicism that surrounds your commitment to fighting climate change and global warming . British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has already promised he will attend the Copenhagen conference, and urges other world leaders to do the same. He says such attendance is essential " to avert the grave danger that nations will face if they fail to agree on

Victim of Drought

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A baby elephant receives a bottle of milk Wednesday at the David Sheldrick Wildlife trust which cares for orphaned elephants on the outskirts of the Nairobi national park in Kenya. Some of the baby elephants have been orphaned by one of the worst droughts in recent years affecting millions of people across East Africa. (KAREL PRINSLOO / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)

What’s the Big Clucking Deal?

by Nikko Snyder - THE SASQUATCH - 
Sept/Oct 2009 (Vol I No. 4) When citizens contacted the City of Regina to inquire about raising chickens on urban properties, the municipal fist came down hard...

Beef-Eaters be Careful! It's a "Buyer-Beware" World our There

NY Times - Michael Moss - Oc 3-'09 E. Coli Path Shows Flaws in Beef Inspection...

UK'S Lackluster Low Carbon Transition Plan

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The Institute of Science in Society Science Society Sustainability http://www.i-sis.org.uk l.p. photo This article can be found on the I-SIS website at http://www.i-sis.org.uk/UK_lackluster_lowcarbon_transition.php ======================================================== ISIS Report 12/10/09 UK’S Lackluster Low Carbon Transition Plan ################################## Belated, good in parts, but not green and definitely lacking in vision. Prof. Peter Saunders and Brett Cherry The belated The world is shifting to renewable energies in the wake of peak oil and accelerating global warming. Contrary to exhausting supplies of fossil and nuclear fuels, renewable energy is inexhaustible energy. In 2008, more capacity in renewable energies has been added than conventional, and the trend is continuing, with many politicians and experts considering 100 percent renewable by 2050 a distinct possibility [1] (see Green Energies - 100% Renewable by 2050, ISIS publication). The German government, for

Farmers Calling for Cull of Manitoba's Wild Elk

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By: Chinta Puxley, THE CANADIAN PRESS - 12/10/2009 WINNIPEG - Bovine tuberculosis carried by wild elk is increasingly threatening some Manitoba cattle herds...

Wild Birds Blamed for Avian 'Flu in the Fraser Valley

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MB Co-Operator - Oc 9'09 Wild geese. l.p. photo Wild birds are seen as the carriers of a "low-path" H5N2 avian flu virus that hit a turkey farm....