Unfortunately, our friends in LA have lost another round in the fight to save their fourteen acre farm. They will continue with an appeal, but as time goes on the farm becomes more and more likely to be lost to developers forever.

Just last week here in Montreal, City officials released a report that stated that the Baldwin Park community garden was contaminated with Lead, Zinc, Arsenic and Cadmium. While no specifics were given, the city is claiming that the garden may have to be closed down due to these heavy metals.

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Submitted by alexjhill on Mon, 07/08/2006 - 8:11am.

Nous croyons fermement aux vertus du jardinage pour tous mais surtout pour les citoyens du troisième âge qui se retrouvent en institution ou dans des édifices spécialisés. Cette année nous avons exploré le potentiel des jardins sur les toits pour les personnes âgées à trois endroits: dans les habitations abordables Les Boulevards à Montréal Nord, dans un HLM à Outremont et chez un client du Santropol Roulant.

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Submitted by ismael on Tue, 01/08/2006 - 4:53pm.

During WWI and WWII, individual citizens in North America were included in the war effort by growing food at their own homes. Gardening today, especially at this time of wars in the Middle East, is a way for us North Americans to do our part. Although we haven't yet been called on by the government to garden on a large scale, individuals and communities are choosing to garden as a way to be peaceful. We can prepare for a future world with no more oil (and hopefully no more oil wars) by gardening at our own homes and community centers.

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Submitted by rotem on Fri, 28/07/2006 - 1:06pm.

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.