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Make it Your New Year's Resolution to Offer More Support for Organic and Sustainable Food and Farming in Manitoba!!

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Greetings and Happy New Year from all of us at the Organic Food Council of Manitoba! garden photo by l.p. 2009 was an extremely busy and exciting year for the Organic Food Council of MB (OFCM-COG), as well as for the organic sector in Manitoba and across Canada. THANK YOU! for your ongoing support and interest in OFCM-COG and our programs: Growing Up Organic (GUO) and Manitoba Farm Mentorship (MFM) . Here's a sampling of what's new at OFCM-COG: Access GUO resources for child care facilities or join us at our Food For Their Thought info session on February 9. Find a farm mentor through MFM or attend one of our upcoming farmer workshops being held January through March. Check our our freshly updated calendar of events . We simply cannot do what we do without the support of our members, program participants, and sponsors, and all of the champions of Manitoba's sustainable food and farming movement - YOU! Please continue to off

Triffids return to British TV

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MB Co-Operator - John Morriss - 12/30/2009 As Canadian government and industry officials try to geet the GM flax variety.... Image courtesy of Wikipedia

Consumers Choose Locally Grown and Environmentally Friendly Apples

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ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2009) When asked to compare... l.p.photo

Green Conservatism

Shared by: F. Los (the Green Pages) on Dec. 30 '09 I always read Lorne Gunter's column, although I almost never....

Niger Delta Farmers Welcome Shell Court Ruling

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Published on : 31 December 2009 - By Sophie van Leeuwen A Dutch court ruled on Wednesday it had the...

Four Anti-Mountaintop Removal Activists Arrested at Home

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Published by Sparki, Dec. 30th'09 Iran is not the only place where government agencies are... Mountaintop removal coal mine in southern WV encroaching on a small community. Photo by Vivian Stockman Ohio Valley Coalition

Anti-Mining Activist Assassinated in El Salvador

Mon. 21 Dec '09 - CISPA - Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador Demand an investigation and... ========== Editor's Note: The atrocious record of Canadian mining companies abroad just keeps getting worse. Led by our Prime Minister, that killer of justice and democracy, Canada just keeps racing to the bottom. Just how far will we sink? l.p.

Arctic Melt Top Weather Story of Decade, if Not Century: Enviro Cda's Phillips

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Wed Dec 30'09 - By Pat Hewitt, The Canadian Press TORONTO - The big Arctic melt of...

Good News for Bees (At Least American Ones): Judge Bans Chemical

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Contact: Josh Mogerman Bee-toxic Movento pulled from market for proper evaluation. Honey bee hive. l.p. photo NEW YORK (December 29, 2009) – A pesticide that could be dangerously toxic to America’s honey bees must be pulled from store shelves as a result of a suit filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Xerces Society. In an order issued last week, a federal court in New York invalidated EPA’s approval of the pesticide spirotetramat (manufactured by Bayer CropScience under the trade names Movento and Ultor) and ordered the agency to reevaluate the chemical in compliance with the law. The court’s order goes into effect on January 15, 2010, and makes future sales of Movento illegal in the United States . “This sends EPA and Bayer back to the drawing board to reconsider the potential harm to bees caused by this new pesticide,” said NRDC Senior Attorney Aaron Colangelo. “EPA admitted to approving the pesticide illegally, but argu

Science left behind in Copenhagen Coverage

Dec. 30 '09 Comment: By thegreenpages contributing editor Fraser Los After all the late-night hand-wringing by bleary-eyed world leaders, the Copenhagen climate conference...

Canada Successfully Destroys Parody Websites

Published on Tuesday, December 29, 2009 by CommonDreams.org Climate Policy Remains Deplorable - by The Yes Men The government of Canada has used...