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Posted By:  vkam
Posted On:  Jun 8, 2008

  Event: NatureWatch/IWA Young Water Professionals Conference/2008 Call for Paper(On-going)

------------------------------------ NatureWatch (On-going) ------------------------------------ NatureWatch is a suite of community-based "citizen science" monitoring programmes including FrogWatch , WormWatch , IceWatch , and PlantWatch .  Through these programmes,...... [view]

Posted By:  vkam
Posted On:  Jun 2, 2008

  Event: Canadian Environment Week Events & More

-------------------------------------------- Commuter Challenge (Jun 1-7) -------------------------------------------- Commuter Challenge is a national program that encourages Canadians to walk, cycle, take transit, carpool or tele-work instead of driving alone to work. The Challenge supports...... [view]

Posted By:  vkam
Posted On:  May 21, 2008

  Call For Submissions - "A Question of Scale" (Due: May 28th)

Call For Submissions A Question of Scale Due: May 28, 2008 Is small always beautiful? Small-scale industry is often functional and sustainable, but sometimes it seems to be limited to a peripheral role. Where and to what extent can it be dominant? When is small best, and when do we need...... [view]

Posted By:  vkam
Posted On:  May 15, 2008

  NOS for Environmental Employment - Call for Participants

ECO Canada invites environmental professionals with 5 years or more of environmental experience to update the National Occupational Standards (NOS) for Environmental Employment. The standards are important to our sector's evolution as they define and communicate: what environmental work is,...... [view]

Posted By:  vkam
Posted On:  Dec 17, 2007

  Carpoolers on the Fast Track

Commuting with a group is catching on in the GTA. How the conveniences outweigh the compromises While it's estimated that 85 per cent of commuters in the GTA drive to work alone, Smart Commute is out to change that. Created in 2004 with the financial backing of Transport Canada, Smart...... [view]

Posted By:  vkam
Posted On:  Dec 25, 2007

  Waterfront Plan: A Magnet & Hopefully, Model

Relax, Toronto, all is not lost; the wheels of change grind no slower here than in any other city. So says Dutch landscape architect Adriaan Geuze, whose firm, West 8, is now redesigning the central waterfront in partnership with Toronto's DTAH. "Bureaucratic resistance is normal," he...... [view]

Posted By:  vkam
Posted On:  Jan 4, 2008

  Container City - A Sustainable Housing Solution!

Containers are an extremely flexible method of construction, being both modular in shape, extremely strong structurally and readily available. Container Cities offer an alternative solution to traditional space provision. They are ideal for office and workspace, live-work and key-worker...... [view]

Posted By:  vkam
Posted On:  Jan 8, 2008

  "The Sustainability Test" - Call for Submissions (Due: Feb 4th)

Alternatives Journal is looking for articles that define the boundaries and test the soundness of sustainability in the 21st Century.   It’s been 20 years since Gro Harlem Brundtland coined the phrase “sustainable development.” Since then, the term has had amazing...... [view]

Posted By:  vkam
Posted On:  Jan 18, 2008

  Solar Energy from Tarmac

Dutch company harnessing sun's rays to heat homes, offices... SCHARWOUDE, NETHERLANDS — If you've ever blistered your bare feet on a hot road you know that asphalt absorbs the sun's energy. A Dutch company is now siphoning heat from roads and parking lots to heat homes and...... [view]

Posted By:  vkam
Posted On:  Mar 4, 2008

  Radioactive Wastes Imports

In the US “low-level” radioactive waste includes all the commercial nuclear waste except irradiated fuel from nuclear reactors, the liquid and sludge from reprocessing and the solid into which that is converted. In most of Europe this same range of waste is considered “low” and...... [view]

Posted By:  vkam
Posted On:  Mar 27, 2008

  Public Awareness of Nuclear Issues

The Ontario Liberal Government is committed to wasting $40 billion of taxpayers dollars on nuclear power.  Nuclear power is horrifically expensive, irresponsible and unnecessary. The world’s leading expert on energy efficiency agrees with the GPO. Amory Lovins recently (March 12, 2008)...... [view]

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