Brockville Climate Action Group

Ronald Zajac reports in The Recorder and Times today:

Students and staff at Meadowview Public School have turned green into silver.

Much of the school population was out planting trees on Friday, part of an afternoon marking Meadowview's EcoSchools Silver designation by the provincewide EcoSchools environmental program.

Trees Ontario and its partners, the Ontario Forestry Association (OFA) and local Conservation Authorities will host a free workshop focused on incentive programs for planting trees, tree planting techniques and the Managed Forest Tax Incentive Program (MFTIP) that can reduce property taxes by up to 75% at locations across the province throughout the months of October and November.

Belleville Intelligencer / Bruce Bell / 24 May 2008

Prince Edward County, not to mention the rest of the world, is a little greener and a lot more environmentally friendly after 6,000 trees were planted on a farm near the shores of Lake Consecon.

Officials from Trees Ontario and the Prince Edward Stewardship Council joined Leona Dombrowsky, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and MPP for Prince Edward-Hastings, and property owners Bill and Judy Burt for a tree planting ceremony as part of the Ministry of Natural Resources' 50 Million Tree Program.

Toronto Star / Vanessa Lu / 22 May 2008

Climate change is here to stay, and even if greenhouse gas emissions were cut to nothing, the impact, including extreme weather, cannot be stopped.

That means it's time for people and cities to find ways to cope and prepare. And Toronto wants to require every agency and division of the city to come up with ways to adapt to climate change in next year's budget. The proposal was approved by the parks and environment committee yesterday, but still needs city council's approval.

The Cataraqui Source Water Protection Committee is hosting a series of open houses to get your ideas and suggestions on its work plan for drinking water source protection.

The committee's work plan, or terms of reference, will determine what will be studied and which areas will be examined as it works towards preparing a plan to protect drinking water sources. This is a long-term process to be completed by 2012.

Community Press / Janet Richards / 20 May 2008

The local branch of the United Nations Association of Canada hosted a round table on water in the Quinte watershed at the Belleville library May 14.

More than 30 people attended the session, which featured source protection manager Keith Taylor and hydrologist Mark Boone, both from Quinte Conservation, as well as former federal agriculture minister Lyle Vanclief, who spoke on water in the agriculture and food industries.