Can we save community gardens from developers? Est-qu'on peut sauvegarder nos jardins communautaires?
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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Posté par alexjhill le Lun, 07/08/2006 - 8:11am.
After the World Urban Forum in June, I spent a few days on Vancouver island visiting my mother, an avid lifetime gardener who recently moved into a new apartment and for the first time does not have her own backyard. 
Environ le tiers des déchets résidentiels sont compostables. Dans un site d'efouissement, ces matières putrescibles se décomposent sous anaérobie produisant des gases à effet de serre et des liquides toxiques capables de contaminés nos nappes d'eau souterraine. Bien que la gestion centralisée des matières pustrescibles demeure la solution la plus efficace pour les grandes ville (voir Toronto), vaut mieux prendre l'avance sur nos élus et commencer le compostage chez-soi dès maintenant!
