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Eco Farm Day is an annual conference tailored to the interests of organic farmers and market gardeners in Ontario and Québec. Each year, we have new opportunities for people to connect throughout the organic sector for commerce, business development, and personal pleasure. A gala dinner on Friday evening features our guest speaker, Wayne Roberts, a renowned ecological activist, author, and grass roots organizer. The Saturday portion of Eco Farm Day again features Wayne Roberts for the opening plenary session plus many interesting concurrent workshops and a trade show. The organic lunch is a hit every year with people sometimes calling it the highlight of the weekend. The trade show will be open to the public on Saturday afternoon.
Eco Farm Day is an annual conference tailored to the interests of organic farmers and market gardeners in Ontario and Québec. Each year, we have new opportunities for people to connect throughout the organic sector for commerce, business development, and personal pleasure. A gala dinner on Friday evening features our guest speaker, Wayne Roberts, a renowned ecological activist, author, and grass roots organizer. The Saturday portion of Eco Farm Day again features Wayne Roberts for the opening plenary session plus many interesting concurrent workshops and a trade show. The organic lunch is a hit every year with people sometimes calling it the highlight of the weekend. The trade show will be open to the public on Saturday afternoon.
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The recent economic turmoil in the province has led many to discuss the future of our traditional industry and how it must change to be competitive in the 21st century. But given the global nature of the economic downturn, the way the world economy is evolving, the way our society is changing (i.e. increasingly diverse and with a growing number of seniors), the questions Ontario faces go beyond business and industry. Ontario needs to change in ways that transcend economics, health care, education and communities. With our "Reinventing Ontario" series, TVO wants to launch a discussion on the ways in which Ontario needs to change to be a great place in which to live, learn and work in the coming decades.
The Green Energy Act, the Feed in Tariff Program (FIT), advantages for Eastern Ontario businesses and homeowners, and key considerations such as determining if your roof is suitable, finding solar contractors, and getting started.
Location: Rideau Canal Museum, 12 Beckwith St. N, Smiths Falls (http://www.rideau-info.com/museum/)
Please note that parking immediately adjacent to the museum is limited, so allow a few extra minutes to park on Main, Chambers or Beckwith Streets, or in the lot by the lock.
A new campaign has targeted March 11 as the day students and workers on Canadian campuses take back their taps and fountains. Bottled Water Free Day is a joint project of the Canadian Federation of Students, Sierra Youth Coalition and Polaris Institute and looks at how free access to water becomes more difficult as public drinking fountains and other infrastructures are not being maintained or designed in new buildings. Bottled water corporations are moving in to corner the market, replacing public infrastructure with private vending machines.
Exploring the Co-operative Option: Strategies for Tapping into Local Markets
Are you:
. A crop or dairy farmer wanting to diversify into lucrative organic meat, fruit and/or vegetable production?
. A conventional or non certified organic farmer wanting to transition to organic certification for health, economic, and ecological reasons?
. An organic farmer who wants to expand your reach into local commercial markets for organic food?
. A new farmer with land and ideas?
Don't ignore World Water Day, Monday, March 22nd, but mark it by attending the showing of the excellent film, FLOW.
This film exposes the hardships brought on people around the world by the privatization of water delivery by huge corporations such as Suez, Vivendi and RWE AG, and by the exploitation of water aquifers by companies such as Nestles and Coke. Third World countries are being forced into privatization by the World Bank and IMF, even though it often results in their poor being cut off.
Effisolar Energy Corporation is holding a public meeting on its proposed solar PV renewable energy project at Spring Valley Hall on Tuesday, March 23, from noon to 3:00 pm.
Brief overview of microFIT for small-scale photovoltaic systems, details to help you decide if microFIT is for you. Basic technical and pricing information from Canadian Solar Inc.
Location: Rideau Canal Museum, 12 Beckwith St. N, Smiths Falls (http://www.rideau-info.com/museum/)
Please note that parking immediately adjacent to the museum is limited, so allow a few extra minutes to park on Main, Chambers or Beckwith Streets, or in the lot by the lock.
Admission Free, Donations Welcome
At 8.30pm on Saturday, March 27 some of the world’s most recognised symbols of hope, peace, human endeavour and natural wonder will plunge into darkness for Earth Hour as a powerful sign of the unrelenting resolve of the global community to respond to the threat of climate change.
Transition Town communities around the world are responding to peak oil, climate change and increasingly, economic contraction, with creativity, imagination and humour, and setting about rebuilding their local economies and communities. It is positive, solutions focused, viral and fun. Our March presentation will be In Transition, the first detailed film about the Transition Town movement filmed by those that know it best, those who are making it happen on the ground, followed by a discussion on how our own community can build its resiliency.
