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  • Sierra Club applauds the new Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement

    Updated GLWQA signed in Washington DC, September 7, 2012

    By Mary Muter, Chair Sierra Club Canada Great Lakes Section

  • Urban River Valleys Mean More Growth for Ontario Greenbelt

    Our friends with Friends of the Greenbelt are featured in this article in Alternatives Journal. Check it out -- if not for the Greenbelt content then for the super-cool aerial photo of the Humber River outflow to Lake O.

    http://www.alternativesjournal.ca/community/blogs/current-events/urban-river-valleys-mean-more-growth-ontario-greenbelt

  • Save the date: Complete Streets Forum - May 27, 2013

    Join the Toronto Centre for Active Transportation (TCAT) at the sixth annual active transportation conference - the 

  • Tell the IJC to Restore our Water Levels!

    The IJC meetings on the Great Lakes water levels finished off mid-July with some of its most successful turnouts (read about the Midland meeting, where 600+ people attended). The struggle is not over yet.  Please remember that the IJC is accepting public comments via mail by September 30, 2012.  It is also important to write your MP with the same message: Restore our water levels!

    Before writing your letter(s) please ask yourself these questions:

    1.       What do 13 unprecedented years of low water levels mean to you economically and environmentally ( eg loss of wetlands and fish habitat, water quality concerns, invasion of Phragmites australis on exposed shorelines)?

  • Hundreds turn out: Message to IJC is loud and clear

    By Kate Harries -- AWARE News Network July 19 2012

    MIDLAND –

    People care about water. There’s a visceral understanding of how important it is.

  • McGuinty announces dates to close Nanticoke & Lambton

    Ontario’s last coal-burning power plants will close by the end of this year, Premier Dalton McGuinty is expected to announce Thursday.

    The closure is either one year earlier than scheduled, or six years late, depending on your perspective.

    The current deadline for closing the coal plants is Dec. 31, 2014 — which makes the new deadline a year early. But the McGuinty government had ridden into office in 2003 promising to close the coal plants by the end of 2007.

  • Stop the Nuke Dump protest walk
      Save our Shores! What's New

    Show our Mayor and Councillors that you disagree with their move to Step 2 of the NWMO DGR process and don't want to see them take this any further — STOP THE PROCESS NOW.

    Protest Walk

  • The time to act to restore our water level is now

    Some of the 600 people attending Monday's night's hearing. DOUGLAS GLYNN The Free Press

    Some of the 600 people attending Monday's night's hearing. DOUGLAS GLYNN The Free Press

     

    The International Joint Commission (IJC) was told Monday that a “do nothing” approach to restore the water levels of Lakes Michigan-Huron and Georgian Bay is unacceptable.

    Simcoe North MP Bruce Stanton joined Great Lakes advocate Mary Muter of the Sierra Club and scores of North Simcoe residents in calling on the IJC to act.

    The commission is an independent binational body established by the United States and Canada under the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909.

  • RIO+20 Talks Need to Consider Physical Limits

    by Gail Tverberg

    RIO+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, is to be held this week on June 20-22 in Rio de Janeiro.

    The term Sustainable Development seems to me to be almost a contradiction in terms. One dictionary gives the definition of "development" as "the act or process of developing; growth; progress". In a finite world, how can growth be sustainable? Isn't it possible that human population already passed the world's carrying capacity, and world leaders should be talking about shrinking instead of growing?

  • Please join us on Sunday April 21, 2013 to celebrate the life and remarkable achievements of Peter Orphanos

    On April 21 2013, Sierra Club Ontario and Credit Valley Conservation will be co-hosting a very special event to honour our late friend and colleague, Peter Orphanos.

    Peter Orphanos, founder of Sierra Club's Peel Region Group and environmental champion, lost his battle with cancer in December just before the holidays. His passing was felt in his community and across the country. Peter Orphanos was a dedicated man and was widely respected as a knowledgeable and determined environmental advocate. The embodiment of “Think Global Act Local”, he devoted decades of his life to protecting the Credit River Valley that winds through Peel Region and alongside his Streetsville, Mississauga home to Lake Ontario.

            

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