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Sarah Laskow

Weekly Mulch: How to avoid fracking and oil spills in 2011

| December 31, 2010
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Environmental sustainability is the core issue of our times

Sustain: to keep in existence, maintain. Sustainable: capable of being sustained. Sustainability: the property of being sustainable.

There is at least one clear fact about human society -- it is an integral part of the environment and the environment dictates how it functions. For human society to remain in a form similar to what we developed historically, it must have a stable environment that contains most of its historical features. How society treats the environment affects its stability.

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Global trade unions demand sustainability from G8/G20 leaders

The health of the world's economy depends on the health of the world's workers, and the time is long overdue for the world's policymakers to listen to them.

This is the message trade unionists and environmentalists from around the globe wanted to send to world leaders when the former two groups met in Toronto this past weekend to demand environmental, social, and economic sustainability in advance of the G8/G20 summit. The World Conference on Sustainability was organized by two Geneva-based global trade union federations, ICEM, and IMF, and was well attended by Canadian labour activists and leaders.

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David Suzuki

David Suzuki: Canada must do more for its oceans

| February 9, 2012
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Organic outperforms conventional farming on all counts

February 1, 2012
| A longitudinal study by the Rodale Institute shows that organic farming can produce yields as high as conventional and in fact does better in some conditions.

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Sustainability speaker series - Annie Leonard's "The Story of Stuff"

Nov 17 2011 - 7:00pm
Nov 17 2011 - 8:30pm

Location

University of Alberta - Tory Lecture Theatre, Room 11
Saskatchewan Drive and 90th Avenue
Edmonton, AB T6G 2R7
Canada
Phone: 780-492-9289
53° 31' 41.5704" N, 113° 31' 17.0436" W

The University of Alberta's Office of Sustainability is proud to present internationally-renowned speaker and environmental health expert Annie Leonard. She will bring her "Story of Stuff" to the University of Alberta through the new Sustainability Speaker Series. The speaking engagement and book signing, organized in celebration of Buy Nothing Day 2011.

Tickets are $5 and available online at tixonthesquare.ca or on campus at all InfoLink booths, located in HUB, SUB, CAB and ETLC. Proceeds from the sale of tickets will support the University of Alberta's Campus Food Bank and Green Grant programs.

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University of Alberta’s Office of Sustainability
Raffi Cavoukian

Beyond protest: Mainstreaming the movement

| October 26, 2011
Michael Stewart

Whose space is This Space?

| October 24, 2011
Meera Karunananthan

Calling out Quebec's hypocrisy in Wakefield

| September 20, 2011

Radical spirituality –- Radical simplicity: A weekend retreat with Jim Merkel

Jim Merkel, author of Radical Simplicity
Oct 28 2011 - 7:00pm
Oct 30 2011 - 1:00pm

Location

Tatamagouche Centre
259 Loop Route 6
Tatamagouche, NS B0K 1V0
Canada
Phone: 1-800-218-2220
Fax: 902-657-3445
45° 43' 12.7236" N, 63° 18' 6.768" W

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Katja Burtis
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