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]