Rainwater harvesting
Sustainability Starts at Home
The Epoch Times / Luke Hughes / 16 August 2010
The effect of climate change on our daily lives is becoming more apparent every day. Most of us are as acutely aware of the environmental challenges facing the world today, as we are of the increasingly high cost of living and of our own health and well-being. Organic gardener, co-founder of “Bellis”( Brisbane’s award-winning sustainable house and garden) and a presenter on ABC TV’s Gardening Australia show Jerry Coleby-Williams will be in town for the Organic Expo & Green Show at Darling Harbour this week. He spoke with The Epoch Times about how the average household can play a powerful role in the challenges our society faces.
BCAG Monthly Public Meeting
Alternative Toilet Systems - and Other Ways to Reduce Your Water Footprint
Speaker: Bob Sneyd, Centre for Sustainable Watersheds
Most of us just flush our waste away and never think much more about it. Maybe it's time we did.
Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative
The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative is a coalition of U.S. and Canadian mayors and other local officials working to advance the protection and restoration of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River. By integrating their environmental, economic and social agendas, local governments are helping to sustain a resource that represents approximately 20 percent of the world’s surface freshwater supply, provides drinking water for 40 million people, and is the foundation upon which a strong regional economy is based. Members of the Cities Initiative are committed to working together and with other orders of government and stakeholders to improve infrastructure, programs and services and increase investments that protect and restore this globally significant freshwater resource. Only by working together to protect the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence can we preserve and enhance the quality of life and economic well being of the people of the region.
Along the Ontario stretch of the St. Lawrence River, only Kingston and Cornwall are affiliated with the Cities Initiative.
Canadians Flushing Great Lakes Water Down the Toilet
Environmental Defence / Press Release / 02 July 2010
More than 580 billion litres of drinking water, the equivalent of 236,000 Olympic swimming pools, are being wasted every year by homeowners in the Great Lakes region of Ontario and Quebec, according to a report released today by Environmental Defence. Down the Drain: Water Conservation in the Great Lakes Basin outlines how much water could be saved in bathrooms, kitchens, laundry rooms and gardens across the Great Lakes.
Kitchener: Stormwater User Fees
Green Communities Canada / Newsletter 687 / 28 June 2010
The cities of Kitchener and Waterloo have approved the implementation of stormwater user fees that will provide for a more equitable levy and shift the greatest burden to the worst offenders: commercial buildings with wrap-around parking lots. Credits, grants and incentives will be provided to those who “do the right thing” as urged by GCC and Waterloo Green Solutions.
Kinsmen Rain Barrel Sale
EMC St Lawrence / 28 May 2010
The Kinsmen Club of Brockville will be doing a Truckload Rain Barrel sale on June 5 at the Thousand Islands Mall.
The barrels will be sold at a cost of $60 each and are recycled food grade barrels, 180 to 220 litres in size, equipped with a screen infill hole, overflow pipe, barrel to barrel capable and spout for hose attachment at bottom. Three colours are available.
Pre-purchase your barrel by contacting Denis at 613-924-1424 or denismuriel@xplornet.com. Conserve water, save money and help the Kinsmen Club. Funds raised will be used for support of local organizations such as minor hockey, soccer, baseball, bursaries and local associations.
