Wednesday, May 21, 2014 at 8:00PM If you were going down the street and saw a fight taking place on the other side, would you rush over and intervene? Probably not, and what has a street fight got to do with the environment or the Holocaust, I hear you asking. Well, read on.
Wednesday, May 14, 2014 at 8:54AM Two weeks ago, Manitoba published its Peatlands Stewardship Strategy to promote the sustainability of peatlands in the province. Peatlands are organic wetlands that contain a deep layer organic material know as peat. They are found in bogs which receive water from only rain or snow, and fens which receive mineral rich groundwater. Across Manitoba, 34% of the land area is covered by peatlands, which are the most efficient terrestrial ecosystem in storing carbon in the long-term.
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 at 6:35PM Three weeks ago, the New York Times ran an article called ‘It’s the end of the world as we know it…and he feels fine’, about British economist Paul Kingsnorth, who is waging war over the ‘age of ecocide’ as he calls it. He is concerned that those who talk about the need for action against climate change are selling false promises, because it is now too late – our actions will achieve nothing. Or ‘it’s the end of the world as we know it’.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 at 12:47PM This weekend a core group of us, sat down at the kitchen table with a cup of home grown mint tea, to come up with a summer program to interest our members.
Thursday, April 24, 2014 at 11:32AM According to data collected by Green Manitoba, 40% of the waste thrown out by Manitoba families can be recycled, 40% is organic (and easily composted), and only 20% really belongs in the landfill. In its most recent sustainability report, released in 2009, Green Manitoba reported that the tonnage of waste per capita going to landfills is trending up.