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Local Green News:
- This month both the SouthSider and Northernlife included a GreenLiving and Green Media insert while CBC announced the launch of Cambrian College's new media director Jessica Grillanda's (of Definitely not the Opera fame) bi-weekly column Eco-Tips in July.
- Local climate change Film "Open you eyes and see" from Grade 8 Pius XII class premieres and Director of education Catherine McCullough orders a DVD for every school in the Sudbury Catholic District School Board.
- Laurentian University's MIRARCO Ontario Centre for Climate Impacts and Adaption Resources
- receives $350,000 for climate change research.
On the GreenCity front:
- What might a GreenSudbury look like? This month new green organic waste bins began appearing in select ward neighborhoods as part of the 1.7 million waste diversion program.
- TreeHugger.com has an ironic piece on the bureaucratic nightmare one Toronto architect's plan for a Green house created entitled "The road to hell is paved with green intentions". City planners can view a project in re-imagining a future city here.
- Meanwhile, California continues it's Leeds building in the new California Academy of Sciences
- building. A science museum renovation designed by award winning architect Renzo Piano featuring a living roof and swamp as a tourist attraction that could almost be a blueprint for Science North and the local drive for a Sudbury School of Architecture.
- Elsewhere, in the German city of Marburg -population 80,000 (similar in size to Sudbury) and famous for it's university, the local Green mayor has mandated solar panel installation on all new home construction and roof renovations.
The Green Family:
- This summer children and nature has tons of tips on outdoor nature based activities including tree houses and enviro summer boot camps. EnviroMom is one moms personal blog from Seattle and this article on family biking was fresh and should be a fun read for Sudbury's critical mass bike group.
- Or visit ecoMoms blog on ideas to harness the power of Green Women!
It's the Green economy stupid!
- Sudbury local business associations might look to Cleveland's interesting b2b sustainable entrepreneurs program that is similar to the Green Enterprise Toronto network for building local living economies. Industrial examples of can retool greencollar jobs.
Can't see the forest for the trees:
- The city of Sudbury's VETAC land reclamation celebrated their 30th anniversary . See what species are being replanted here and where in Sudbury.
- Google Earth has a new State of the World's Forest layer - to visualize and see the data on rainforest's or Northern Ontario's Boreal forest. A beautiful piece from sustainablog on hummingbirds
Green Spirit:
- To help rejuvenate the spirit and vision, Grist.org has published a list of 15 Green spiritual leaders including Christians for the Mountains (against open strip mining), What would Jesus Drive campaign? of the Evangelical Environmental Network, The Genesis Farm and partner of the Foodshed Alliance and many more designed to perk up your hope quotient.
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