Brockville Climate Action Group

Ottawa Citizen / Laura Robin / 03 July 2008

What's new: It isn't new, exactly -- a swing back to local eating has been simmering and gaining steam for a couple of years -- but it seems to have hit a critical mass and is bursting with fresh enthusiasm and fresh produce. "It's boiling," says Andy Terauds, president of Ottawa's Farmers Market at Lansdowne Park. "There's no question that over the last year it's gone from a simmer to a boil."

Ottawa Citizen / Jake Rupert / 02 July 2008

With scientific models predicting a hotter and wetter Ottawa due to climate change, city bureaucrats say the time to prepare is now.

Council's planning and environment committee is being asked to endorse a climate change adaptation plan for the city next Tuesday.

The plan was created by officials in the economic and environmental sustainability group, and it's the next step in series of events after council's 2005 decision to acknowledge climate change and that greenhouse gases are contributing to it.

Oil Week / Canadian Press / 26 June 2008

Large landfills in Ontario will have to install methane gas collection systems by 2010 to comply with new regulations.

The province says the regulations will mean a reduction in greenhouse gases equal to taking 200,000 cars off the road each year.

Collecting methane gas is expected to reduce emissions by more than four million tonnes annually.

Under the new rules, landfills larger than 1.5-million cubic metres will have to burn off methane or use it to generate electricity that can then be sold for the province´s power grid.

REAL Update / Alexis Asselin / April 2008

Members of REAL's Climate Change Action Team (CCAT) have launched a project that will provide bike carts (those are the ones that you pull behind your bike, not to be confused with trailers that carry bikes!) to Smiths Falls. In the process, we will train interested youth in general bicycle and cart building and maintenance.

IPS News / Stephen Leahy / 25 June 2008

North America's abject failure to meet the challenge of climate change has been "un-American", environmentalist and scientist David Suzuki told delegates Tuesday at the World Wind Energy Conference, the first ever in the region.

"We're facing an ecological crisis, a crisis far, far worse than Pearl Harbour," Suzuki said.