Des jardins sur les toits est un projet d' Alternatives, un réseau d'action et de communication pour le développement international.
Even a tiny country like England uses a great deal of energy to get food to its people. Just like in Canada, this is due to the importing of food from all around the world. Perhap we should change the mantra of the environmental movement to "Think Globally, Eat Locally."
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Submitted by alexjhill on Wed, 26/07/2006 - 8:33am.
by Mark McGuire
July 2006
In our summer Continuing Education course in Dawson College's Humanities department we've been exploring global warming and climate change, threats to our food security and biodiversity posed by industrial agriculture, and the looming peak in the global oil supply. We ask, "How does our participation in modern consumer culture implicate us in the rapid devastation of our human community and natural environment? What are our responsibilities as human beings and global citizens to respond collectively with imagination to these huge, complicated problems? What obstacles prevent us from getting good information and developing creative strategies for resistance?" By taking seriously and actually lending a hand to the ongoing efforts of local community organizations (Santropol Roulant and Alternatives, to name but two) to find meaningful and sustainable solutions to these problems, students have discovered that, as our course title suggests, "Another World is Possible," so long as we abandon despair and commit to activist-engagement with our local communities.
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Submitted by rotem on Thu, 20/07/2006 - 12:56pm.
Thursday, July 13, 2006 at the demonstration garden.
Jeudi, le 13 juillet, 2006 dans le jardin demonstratif.
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Our first rooftop potluck was a smashing success!
We had a great discussion about municipal involvement in urban greening. Thanks to everyone who showed up with tasty food to share and ideas to exchange!
Notre premier potluck etait un grand succes!
On a eu une belle discussion sur l'ecologisation de la ville et l'implication de la municipalite. Merci a tout le monde qui sont venues avec la bouffe a partager et les idees a echanger!
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Submitted by rotem on Tue, 18/07/2006 - 2:02pm.
Montreal – Summer 2006
As Montrealers suffer another stifling summer heat wave, feeling choked by the smog and humidity, some people are trying to do something about it!
But a cooler gentler Montreal is possible if we can “green-up” the city centre with urban vegetable gardens, green roofs, and more trees. Many community and environmental organisations are leading the way.
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Submitted by rotem on Mon, 17/07/2006 - 11:07am.
Action Communiterre is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to social and environmental development through the establishment and operation of collectively-managed vegetable gardens. We run 10 organic gardens, known as the Victory Garden Network, in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce area in Montreal. Our mission is to bring local residents together in a common effort to enhance food security in our neighbourhood, improve the urban environment, preserve bio-diversity, and strengthen community ties. We are a bilingual and multicultural organization that is governed by a board of directors made up of members of the community and the larger area. There are permanent staff who carry out the day to day work of the organization.
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Submitted by rotem on Thu, 13/07/2006 - 11:37am.
Hey folks,
My family just forwarded me this encouraging article about guerilla gardening in Vancouver. One of my mom's friends just got permission from the Municipality of Saanich in Victoria to plant vegetables in the boulevard outside her house too.
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Submitted by mthom on Tue, 11/07/2006 - 9:30am.
