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The Gazette
The impact of Al Gore’s 2006 Academy award-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth, has, among many things, spawned an army of Al Gore soldiers, some 2,300 trained presenters in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Britain, India and Spain dedicated to promoting dialogue about and possible solutions to climate change.
The Globe and Mail
Polluters in Quebec can be successfully sued for ”excessive annoyances” – even if they have complied with government regulations governing emissions such as noise, odour or dust, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled today.
The Court sided in favour of allowing a class action targeting a St. Lawrence Cement Ltd. plant near Quebec City.
“A surge of interest in Earth Hour – with Canadians among the world leaders – has left organizers scrambling to add a new computer server to cope with a crashing system swamped by people revving up for Saturday night’s event.”
The Live Earth concerts are happening now. Visit Zerofootprint’s online calculator to collectively do something about reducing our footprints.
The proposed roads-and-transit plan is designed to provide more choices and reduce congestion in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties in Washington. Some argue that this plan is much needed and will help create mixed-use, walkable, green communities.
The Zerofootprint Micro-credit Initiative and School Feeding Charity Program is being undertaken in Tshivanga, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It aims to create a model that will strengthen the social and economic fabric of the community and protect the endangered habitat of the lowland gorillas living nearby.
British Columbia uses more per capita electricity than most places around the world. In fact, some European communities use 60% less electricity. In order to make significant changes, individuals, businesses, communities and governments in B.C. need to take leadership and encourage the right choices.
Special to The Chronicle, John Hershey writes about the “100-inch diet.”
“I believe that a 100-mile diet is far too expansive. Think of the fossil fuel required to ship a green bean a hundred miles. Why drive to Sacramento just to buy a turnip? To a truly committed locavore like me, even limiting oneself to food produced within a 100-foot radius seems extravagant. I’m taking local eating to the extreme: This year, I will embark on a revolutionary new 100-inch diet! One hundred inches – or 8 feet, 4 inches – is the approximate radius of my plot in the neighborhood community garden.”