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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Posté par rotem le Ven, 28/07/2006 - 1:06pm.

par Mark McGuire (en anglais seulement)
juillet 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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Posté par rotem le Jeu, 20/07/2006 - 1:12pm.

Des groupes communautaires se lancent à l’assaut de la canicule et du smog en verdissant Montréal!

Montreal – Ete 2006

Tandis que les Montréalais sont encore une fois accablés par la vague de chaleur suffocante, oppressés par le smog et oppressés par l’humidité, certains d’entre eux développent des solutions à ce problème!

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Posté par rotem le Lun, 17/07/2006 - 11:01am.

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Posté par rotem le Jeu, 13/07/2006 - 11:20am.