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October 2011 Blog Posts (7)

ForestEthics - Because protecting forests is everyone's business

Hey there,

 

We have a chance to save a forested area the size of Maine from destruction by Canada's Tar Sands, but we need a lot of people to chime in to do it.

Dole and Chiquita produce half of the world's bananas, and because bananas require so much fuel to reach our fruit bowls, we need banana producers to use the cleanest fuels available to protect our health and our planet. Can you ask Dole and Chiquita to reject the Tar Sands in favor of cleaner…

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Added by sara fralin on October 19, 2011 at 2:56pm — No Comments

Our Most Basic Right -- To Choose What we Eat -- Denied in Canada

Some of you may have been following the case of Michael Schmidt, biodynamic farmer in Ontario who is currently on a hunger strike. I think it is day 19 now....

 

What is he protesting? Our very basic right to decide for ourselves what we put into our own bodies.

 

In both the US and Canada, judges have ruled that we can't drink milk right from our own cows. Canada and the US are marching in-step towards a future where our food is completely controlled by…

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Added by Hella Dee on October 18, 2011 at 5:15pm — No Comments

Occupy Vancouver

We, the Ninety-Nine Percent, come together with our diverse experiences to transform the unequal, unfair, and growing disparity in the distribution of power and wealth in our city and around the globe. We challenge corporate greed, corruption, and the collusion between corporate power and government. We oppose systemic inequality, militarization, environmental destruction, and the erosion of civil liberties and human rights. We seek economic security, genuine equality, and the protection of…

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Added by David Allan on October 14, 2011 at 12:30pm — No Comments

System change not climate change: What does it mean where the rubber hits the road?



By Eric Doherty, October 11, 2011

The slogan “System change not climate change” is well known in Europe, and is becoming a central rallying cry in the growing global movement for climate justice. But to many people in North America, it is still an unfamiliar and even threatening slogan. So what does “system change” mean where the rubber hits the…

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Added by Eric Doherty on October 13, 2011 at 3:13pm — No Comments

Applesauce workshop this Tuesday, Oct 11 - deadline extended

If anyone is interested in learning how to can applesauce, the Hastings Community Centre will be teaching it from 9:30-12:30am on Tues, Oct 11. Children & adults can attend - see www.summeroffoodblog.blogspot.com. Registration deadline extended until Saturday morning.

Added by Prices on October 7, 2011 at 10:51am — No Comments

Sun Feature: My one-year crash course in subsistence gardening is over, by Randy Shore

Feature: My one-year crash course in subsistence gardening is over

 
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Added by Randy Chatterjee on October 2, 2011 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments

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