Toyota Canada Inc. and Earth Day Canada established the Toyota Earth
Day Scholarship Program to help cultivate and nurture this environmental
leadership. The Toyota Earth Day Scholarship Program encourages and
rewards graduating Canadian high school students who have distinguished
themselves through environmental community service, extracurricular and
volunteer activities, and academic excellence.

Environmental issues are increasingly being tackled through
multidisciplinary approaches. Future environmental leaders will
therefore come from a broad range of academic backgrounds. The Toyota
Earth Day Scholarship is offered to students entering their first year
of post-secondary studies in the discipline of their choice, to prepare
themselves for the career of their choice.

The Toyota Earth Day Scholarship Program grants 15 awards of $5000 each
annually, to be applied directly towards tuition, books, room and board
(where applicable) or other educational expenses for the first year of
post-secondary full-time studies in Canada.

Regional panels of community, business and environmental leaders will
select the winners who best meet the selection criteria. Awards will be
granted in five geographic areas:

Atlantic Canada: 2 awards
Quebec: 4 awards
Ontario: 4 awards
Western Canada / Northwest Territories / Nunavut: 3 awards
British Columbia / Yukon: 2 awards
A national winner - selected from the 15 regional winners - will also
be awarded the Toyota Earth Day Scholarship National Award and a
Panasonic notebook computer at the National Award Ceremony.

http://www.earthday.ca/scholarship/about.php
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Thatrsquo;s why this year, MTV Switch is excited to team up with Ashoka GenV to help you make a greater impact on the environment ndash; by helping you turn your bright ideas into reality.

Come up with a creative idea for how you can make our planet cooler or greener and we will help you launch your own environmental project or ldquo;venture.rdquo;

Ashoka GenV will give you support and even seed funding of up to US$1,000 to put your ideas into action.

The best projects may be featured in a half hour MTV documentary scheduled for Earth Day 2009.

Also, The Lemelson Foundation will award five project leaders a trip to Boston, USA to take part in a roundtable discussion
on climate change at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ideas are reviewed on an on-going basis and projects can be launched anytime. Do not wait until December 31, 2008 (deadline) to submit your idea.

Herersquo;s the step-by-step guide for how to take part in the Dream It. Do It. Challenge:

1) Dream It:

Come up with a creative (fun?) idea for improving our environment. The bigger the impact the better. Be original. Need inspiration? Check out Get Inspired or ldquo;Your Ideasrdquo; for some examples.

2) Submit It:

Send us your idea in just 200 words. Tell us: whatrsquo;s your new idea, how you will create change, and what impact will you make. If you can send us your own photos to show us the ldquo;problemrdquo; or the ldquo;solutionrdquo; or both. We will feature the best entries in ldquo;Your Ideas.rdquo;

3) Plan It:

Once we receive your idea, we will send you an action plan and help you plan your project well.

4) Do It:

Submit your action plan and present your project to a panel of mentors to receive feedback and advice.Once approved, you will receive your grant, and you are then ready to launch your environmental venture.Do it!

ldquo;Food production is just the obvious problem for cities,rdquo; the 29year-old said. ldquo;With high density cities, you canrsquo;t possibly feed all the inhabitants.rdquo;

His building concept sees the bottom floors serving as retail outlets, similar to St. Lawrence Market, selling the harvest from the upper floors, which include fare such as strawberries, tomatoes and cucumbers.

While there are some kinks to be worked out, such as energy lodes and water consumption, Graff said his SkyFarm could help solve problems like keeping outof-season produce prices low, reducing delivery truck traffic and helping Torontonians eat more vipe-ripened fruits and vegetables. Currently, most produce is harvested before maturity and ripens in delivery trucks or planes while enroute to the city.

ldquo;Itrsquo;s literally pick of the day that would be in the market,rdquo; Graff said. Graff, in his final year at the University of Waterloo, has piqued some interest from developers and is working out cost details.

He is also working on a ldquo;grow housingrdquo; concept, a scaled down version of SkyFarm to 1/40th the size, where residents of condominiums or social housing could eat food thatrsquo;s grown where they live.

quot;Weapos;re not inventing anything new here,quot; says Graff, garrulous and passionate, with a thorough commitment to the burgeoning field of green architecture. quot;It might seem space-age, but all of the technology required to do this exists right now, today.quot;

Graff explains the rationale for vertical farms:quot;Unless we want to start talking about human population control ndash; which is politically impossible, in a democracy ndash; we have to start considering new strategies,quot; Graff says. quot;Thereapos;s either going to be massive famine, or weapos;ll have to condense our agricultural practice.quot;

While the site he originally proposed is now planted with condos, Graffapos;s vision now is smaller, more local vertical farms. quot;The real sweet spot for this is six-to-10 storey neighbourhood farms......Human beings have never shown the capacity to consume less,quot; he says. quot;The simple fact is that, somehow, we have to find a way to produce more.quot;

HOW SKYFARM COULD WORK

quot;Gordon Graffapos;s Skyfarm isnapos;t intended as an out-there suggestion of what might be. Heapos;s convinced it would work, right now. In Graffapos;s conception, Skyfarm is a self-sustaining system.

It almost has to be: With virtually no penetration of natural light, Skyfarmapos;s demand for electric lighting comes in at an estimated 82 million kilowatt hours per year. The average household uses about 10,000 kwh annually.

Hooking Skyfarm into the grid would completely cancel out any of the energy-saving advantages gained by not having to truck its produce thousands of kilometres. And then thereapos;s all that water ndash; 59 storeys of hydroponic plants, stacked half a dozen storeys deep.

But Graff thought of that. Skyfarm would be equipped with its own biogas plant, to produce methane from its own waste. When burned, methane produces less carbon dioxide than other hydrocarbon fuels. It would be used by Skyfarm to produce its own electricity.

When Skyfarm is unable to produce enough waste to power itself ndash; Graff estimates that the farmapos;s internal waste would generate enough methane to fulfill 50 per cent of its energy needs ndash; he suggests a win-win partnership with the city. Waste that travels to civic composting facilities ndash; with questionable renewability, by some accounts ndash; could be diverted to Skyfarmapos;s anaerobic digester to produce the methane it needs. Skyfarm could take on some other problems to its benefit, too: Sewage is a rich methane source.

And the water issue? Enter the Living Machine, a patented biological water-filtration system that would recover waste water from sewage and divert it to Skyfarmapos;s hydroponic growing demands.quot;

Full article:
http://www.thestar.com/article/468023
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/pie-in-the-sky-the-worlds-first-edible-highrise-836350.html

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Related links:

GTAapos;s 1st Annual BUY LOCAL WEEK (Dec 1-7)
http://greenenterprise.net/web/index.php?id=243

The Stop Green Barn (Farmerapos;s Market Saturdays @9-12am)
An all-year round community greenhousenbsp;andnbsp;farm market, situated in anbsp;LEED certifiednbsp;buildingnbsp;featuring the latest environmental technology system.
http://www.thestop.org/greenbarn/index.html

Direct-recording electronic voting machines are incredibly easy to hack; Princeton University security expertnbsp;Ed Felten proved it by accessing a Diebold machinersquo;s memory card with a hotel minibar key he bought online. In less than one minute, Felten was able to install undetectable vote-stealing software.nbsp;Then there is the garden-variety computer error. Touch-screen machines in Sarasota, Florida, recorded an 18,000-vote undercount in a congressional race decided by fewer than 400 votes.nbsp;Paper itself was never foolproof (remember those chads?), but a stolen, lost, or stuffed ballot box risks mere hundreds of votes while a hidden computer glitch risks millions.nbsp;And since viruses can spread, one machinersquo;s infection can quickly cross county lines.nbsp;

Unfortunately, our current digital democracy leaves massive fraud and massive error imperceptible and untrackable. And transparencymdash;not just of the software code, but of the whole voting systemmdash;has never been more important.nbsp;Each voter should be able to verify that his or her own vote has been counted correctly from the booth all the way to the final tally. But how can you lay bare the secret ballot without sacrificing the privacy that makes democracy work?

(Read more...)
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/oct/04-protecting-your-vote-with-invisible-ink

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Before casting your ballot, do you think you know the issues?nbsp;nbsp;Regardless of yournbsp;political preferences, it is increasingly important for us tonbsp;understand what it means by environmental sustainability and how it could affect our economies andnbsp;social well-beings in our societies.nbsp; If everyone of us would take the time to digest the information listed below,nbsp;it could really serve our societies well...

The Business Case for Sustainability (55 mins)
http://www.sustainabilityadvantage.com/

The End of Suburbia (78 mins)
http://www.endofsuburbia.com/

Anbsp;Green History of the World: The Environment amp; the Collapse of Great Civiliations - By Clive Ponting (Book)nbsp;
http://www.amazon.com/New-Green-History-World-Civilizations/dp/0143038982nbsp;(2007 Edition)
http://ecobooks.com/books/history.htmnbsp;(1993 Edition)

http://www.planetinfocus.org/mixedgreens

Our 9th Annual Planet in Focus Festival takes place in Toronto between October 22-26, 2008.nbsp; Join us as we showcase over 100 films on environmental themes by remarkable artists from Canada and around the world. In addition to screening documentaries, the festival also features animated, experimental. and dramatic works of all lengths. Our spotlight, Food: The Big Picture, will provide you with plenty of food for thought in addition to our panels, workshops, youth and childrenapos;s programs. Filmmakers will also experience an abundance of film industry networking opportunities.

http://planetinfocus.bside.com/2008/films

Now imagine the outcome if these trees and the ones before them had not been planted!nbsp; Kudos to the farmers of western Canada and their ancestors for having the foresight and commitment to protect our environment and keep our family farms sustainable!
Note:nbsp; The 600 millionth tree was planted during Environment Week, June 6, 2008, at Indian Head Saskatchewan, Canada.

For more information on the AAFC-PFRA Prairie Shelterbelt Program, please visit www.agr.gc.ca/shelterbelt.
nbsp;

Lab-grown meat wonrsquo;t make many top-10 lists as a natural food, but the New Harvest Web site calls it ldquo;less unnatural than raising farm animals in intensive confinement systems, injecting them with synthetic hormones, and feeding them artificial diets made up of antishy;biotics and animal wastes.rdquo; Known as in vitro or cultured meat, the end product, grown from stem cells, could alleviate environmental and health concerns associated with most animal protein (not to mention moral qualms about eating animals), making it the cut of choice.

To a certain extent, in vitro meat has already been produced hundreds of times in labs around the world, as stem cell researchers crank out bits of artificial muscle and connective tissue, hoping to mend weak hearts or reverse muscular dvstrophy. But only a brave few have engineered tissues expressly for the purpose of making hamburger. In 2000 NASA engineered a bit of goldfish meat as a possible food for astronauts on marathon journeys, and in 2003 a group of Australian artists with a background in tissue engineering served tiny portions of petri-dish muscle (drowning in sauce to avoid the flavor question) to an invitation-only dinner party.

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/oct/22-i.ll-have-my-burger-petri-dish-bred/?searchterm=beefvitro

As part of Torontoapos;s plan to be diverting 70 per cent of its garbage from landfill by 2010, the city is examining ways to limit items that have a bad reputation for filling up landfills.

quot;They may not be very heavy, but they take up a lot of space,quot; said Geoff Rathbone, general manager of Torontoapos;s solid waste department.

Proposals being considered for beverage cups, takeout food containers and plastic bags include:

An outright ban.

A levy or tax on the items. (Charging extra would presumably influence consumers to use recyclable cups or containers.)

A deposit-return program similar to the provincial bottle return program, whereby consumers get at least a portion of their money back if they turn in the container, making the seller responsible for recycling it.

A proposal pushed by Councillor Howard Moscoe targets cardboard and plastic store packaging, most of which ends up in the garbage stream. Stores in Toronto should be required to provide space where customers can take their purchases out of the packaging and leave the garbage behind, Moscoe says. This would put pressure on the manufacturers ndash; over whom Toronto has no control ndash; to reduce the amount of packaging on their products.

http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/499032

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Waste Reduction Week in Canada (Oct 19-25, 2008)
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The character will be featured in ads aimed at educating and encouraging the public to take part.

In a lifetime, the average North American will throw away 600 times his or her adult weight in garbage, and a 68-kilo adult will leave a legacy of 40,825 kilos of trash, according to figures from Natural Resources Canada posted on the Waste Reduction Week in Canada website.

Waste Reduction Week national committee member Jo-Anne St. Godard said it was Sesame Workshop, the non-profit organization behind Sesame Street, that approached the organization for the chance to get Oscar involved, as it felt the curmudgeonly character was a ldquo;naturalrdquo; to try to reach children and get a positive message out around conservation and preservation.

ldquo;He brings a very colourful and a very recognizable profile to the program and hopefully will empower people to participate,rdquo; said St. Godard, executive director of the Recycling Council of Ontario.

St. Godard said part of the eighth annual event running Oct. 19-25 will focus on engaging post-secondary students who are the up-and-coming consumers, policy-makers and business leaders, to think about consumption and waste generation and the environmental impact of those activities.

http://www.metronews.ca/ottawa/Live/article/115522

To learn more, please visit:
http://www.wrwcanada.com/events.htm


Related News:

Report: Ocean Debris Will Likely Worsen
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/21/AR2008092100146.html

Sixty-three years have gone by since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.nbsp;

No one could clue in the dimensions of the blasts when they occurred. Just the idea of such a catastrophe sounded preposterous to neighbouring cities who heard rumours about the first explosion following the incident.nbsp;

Who could have imagined the A-bomb detonating over Hiroshima? It was the first of its kind, a cataclysm of godlike proportions unleashed by a group of mortals.

World War II was still going on at the time. The conventional weapons of war were not capable of mass destruction.nbsp;

The Potsdam Declaration was the final warning, an ultimatum issued on July 26, 1945, by Harry S. Truman with the other allied leaders of Great Britain and China, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.nbsp;

This wasnrsquo;t much of a warning considering the one before that had been the Cairo Declaration delivered to Japan in December 1943.

The Potsdam Declaration outlined terms of surrender for Japan. One of the clauses stated that further resistance would mean ldquo;the inevitable and complete destruction of the Japanese armed forces and just as inevitably the utter devastation of the Japanese homeland.rdquo;nbsp;

This declaration was ignored.

On August 6, 1945, at 8:15AM, the uranium based atomic bomb, nicknamed ldquo;Little Boy,rdquo; was dropped over Hiroshima. It detonated 1900 feet over a hospital. The blast was equivalent to between 13 to 16 kilotons of TNT.

On August 9, 1945, at 11:01AM, the plutonium based atomic bomb, nicknamed ldquo;Fat Man,rdquo; was dropped over Nagasaki. The blast was equivalent to 21 kilotons of TNT.nbsp; nbsp;

The Atom bomb wasnrsquo;t necessary. Its use was purposely meant to intimidate Japan and make it fear annihilation. The conflict could have been solved in a peaceful way. The terror and atrocities that occurred in Hiroshima and Nagasaki could have been avoided entirely through further negotiations to end World War II. Unfortunately, ldquo;could havesrdquo; have no place in the present, but past mistakes warn the present for the sake of the future.nbsp;

Two hundred thousand people perished by the end of 1945. Most of them were civilians. Many more of the survivors died in the following years from the effects of radiation that developed mutations, cancer, and birth defects. Descendant generations are still affected.nbsp;

Sadly, it seems no lesson has been learned.nbsp;

Divided leaders of humanity continue to work on developing more brutal nuclear weapons. More than half a century has gone by since the first nuclear weapons were created, making the technology almost as old as the television.nbsp;

The television has made great leaps of evolution since it first appeared in households in the early forties. Imagine how far nuclear bombs and weapons in general have evolved. And herersquo;s a thoughthellip; global warming might be the result of someonersquo;s manipulation of Nature through new technology.nbsp;

No doubt about it, wersquo;re in big trouble if any mortal decides to play God again. As if this isnrsquo;t enough, the nuke fight is headed for space.nbsp;

When will it end?

Which country will press the button first? Will this titanic disaster be caused by provocation from irresolvable differences or simply by accident? Accidents do happen.nbsp;

In any case, we live on the same planet rotating around the sun, like a ship sailing across an ocean. Poke some holes underneath, donrsquo;t patch them up, and in time the whole bulk will sink to the bottom.History has witnessed what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. When the atomic bomb detonated, people closer to ground zero vaporized, others seared to ashes in a lightning moment. One victimrsquo;s shadow was permanently imprinted on a wall, his body nowhere to be found.nbsp;

Shall we repeat this unethical horror?nbsp;

Global Warming is making us realize that we are all responsible for the health of our planet. The Earth is a massive body of life presently contaminated by fear, hatred, pollution and war. If you detoxify the whole system and eliminate its contagions, its immune system should strengthen back to health. Anything peacefully achieved is better than pollution, war, and suffering. And everyone wants happiness.nbsp;

On a side note, at the end of the event, I went back home and went to sleep. Around 4:30am, there was an explosion that shook the night ambiance and my windows. The blast even made dogs bark outside.nbsp;

I ran to the living room, opened the curtains facing north and was shocked to see a mushroom cloud of fire in the distance. Irsquo;ve been a resident of Toronto for two and a half years and Irsquo;ve heard Ontario allows transportation of radioactive materials, but I feared someone had decided to bomb Markham.nbsp; I thought it was possibly the perfect site for government tests of new weapons to aid the United States in their fight against terror and Weapons of Mass Destruction, which they were the first to create and use.nbsp;

After searching the radio for news about the blast, I was relieved to hear it was just a possible gas station or propane factory. It turned out being the Sunrise Propane explosion.nbsp;

It could very well have been a nuclear explosion. lsquo;Glad it wasnrsquo;t. Letrsquo;s hope the world doesnrsquo;t end anytime soon.

http://ryersonfreepress.ca/site/archives/91

To learn more, please visit:

ICAN
http://www.icanw.org

The warning from Dr. Ronald B. Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, is contrary to numerous studies that donapos;t find a link between cancer and cell phone use, and a public lack of worry by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Herberman is basing his alarm on early unpublished data. He says it takes too long to get answers from science and he believes people should take action now — especially when it comes to children.

"Really at the heart of my concern is that we shouldnapos;t wait for a definitive study to come out, but err on the side of being safe rather than sorry later," Herberman said.

No other major academic cancer research institutions have sounded such an alarm about cell phone use. But Herbermanapos;s advice is sure to raise concern among many cell phone users and especially parents.

In the memo he sent to about 3,000 faculty and staff Wednesday, he says children should use cell phones only for emergencies because their brains are still developing.

Adults should keep the phone away from the head and use the speakerphone or a wireless headset, he says. He even warns against using cell phones in public places like a bus because it exposes others to the phoneapos;s electromagnetic fields.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hwzQ6Jsq3cSWa721yR84l99_pnlAD923S7T82

Food and Drug Administration on cell phones
http://www.fda.gov/cellphones/qa.htmlnbsp;

With a view to the kind of world his daughters will inherit, filmmaker Turk Pipkin travels the world to talk to Nobel laureates about issues like global warming, poverty and nuclear disarmament. Featuring Nobel laureates: Steven Weinberg, Jody Williams, Ahmed Zewail, Rick Smalley, Wangari Maathai, Joseph Rotblat, Harold Varmus, Desmond Tutu and Amartya Sen.

http://www.tvo.org/TVO/WebObjects/TVO.woa

Related articles:

The Energy Issue: Background Information
http://www.willyoujoinus.com/energy-issues/

Join the Discussion Board (on Energynbsp;amp; Other Issues)
http://www.willyoujoinus.com/discussion/

In what is believed to be the first policy of its kind in Canada, the agency is advising children and teens to limit the time they spend on cellphones until more is known about potential health effects.

The report from the cityapos;s medical officer of health recommends "children, especially pre-adolescent children, use land lines whenever possible, keeping the use of cellphones for essential purposes only, limiting the length of cellphone calls and using headsets or hands-free options, whenever possible."

Citing a dearth of research on cellphone use among children and the rising popularity of the devices, the health agency said the possibility that children and teens need greater protection from cellphone radio frequencies couldnapos;t be ruled out.

"While scientists were pretty dismissive of any risk years ago, with the accumulation of studies, it appears people who have been using their phones for a long period of time are at greater risk of certain kinds of brain tumours. There is a pattern emerging," said Loren Vanderlinden, a Toronto Public Health supervisor and the reportapos;s author.

"We think itapos;s responsible to limit childrenapos;s exposure," said Vanderlinden, a mother of two boys, aged 9 and 5, neither of whom carries a cellphone. "Generally, calls should be limited to five or 10 minutes."

Children have smaller heads and thinner skulls than adults. Some studies, using computer image modelling, show signals radiate farther into childrenapos;s heads than adults. And because children today begin using cellphones at an earlier age than any other generation, exposure will be far greater over their lifetimes.

In Canada, 61 per cent of 12- to 19-year-olds have a cellphone, according to recent data from Solutions Research Group. There are no Canadian statistics on users under 12.

Industry officials vigorously deny any harmful effects from their products. "The state of the science is that there are no health effects," said Marc Choma, a spokesperson for the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association, adding that if parents "wish to take a precautionary approach to cellphone use by their children, thatapos;s their decision."

Toronto Public Healthapos;s advisory follows similar precautionary policies introduced in the U.K., Belgium, Germany, France and Russia.

U.K. health officials publicly discouraged the non-essential use of cellphones by children four years ago. They have also urged the cellphone industry to refrain from marketing their products to children – a widespread practice in North America where phonesapos; cartoonish images lure youngsters.nbsp;

Meanwhile, Health Canada has remained publicly silent on cellphone risks to children, issuing no warnings despite internal concerns dating back to the late 1990s.

A 2005 Star probe cited internal Health Canada documents dating back to 1998, obtained under access to information legislation, that state "children are at highest risk from (radio frequency) exposures."

Cellphones, says another internal memo "have been linked to increasing incidence of childhood leukemia, brain and other cancers of the head and neck, memory problems, stress and migraine/neurological ailment."In a written response to questions yesterday, a Health Canada spokesperson said: "Health Canada currently sees no scientific reason to consider the use of cellphones as unsafe."

Martin Weatherall, director of the grassroots organization Wireless Electrical and Electromagnetic Pollution and a former Toronto police officer, hailed Toronto Public Healthapos;s new policy as a "brave" first step. But he urged more action.

"I would also suggest that cordless telephones and Wi-Fi and wireless games should be included in their recommendations for avoidance by children, and that these devices should not be used in close proximity to children," he said.

The biggest study to date on potential cellphone health effects is the 13-country Interphone project, co-ordinated by the World Health Organizationapos;s International Agency for Research on Cancer. It focuses on head and neck cancers.

Results released from some individual countries have hinted at increased cancer risks after 10 years or more of cellphone use.

"We do see something there," Israeli scientist Dr. Siegal Sadetzki told the Star. But Interphone, she said, only looks at adults from 30 to 59 years old.

"When we started the Interphone study children were not using cellphones."

http://www.thestar.com/article/459099



Related Articles:

Listening to Cellphone Warnings
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/434412

EMF Facts
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/?p=916

To get involved, please visit:
http://www.eman-rese.ca/eman/naturewatch.html


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Check Your Watershed Day 2008 (July 19)
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Celebrate your Watershed with Citizens Environment Water (CEW) on Saturday July 19, 2008!nbsp; Check Your Watershed Day is an annual, one day event where you can get your feet wet and learn first hand about your watershed.

This year the event will take place in Cobourg Creek and Bronte Creek watersheds.nbsp; Cobourg Creek includes portions of the Town of Cobourg and the Township of Hamilton and Alnwick/Haldimand in Northumberland County.nbsp; Bronte Creek includes portions of Wellington County, and the City of Hamilton, Burlington, Oakville and Milton.

We are looking for volunteers to be Stream Team Leaders and Members.nbsp; Please register by Friday, July 11, 2008. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.nbsp;nbsp;To register, please visit:
http://www.monitoringthemoraine.ca/cywd/index.htm

If you live in Durham region and would like to find out about other stewardship events in your area, please contact:
cywd@citizensenvironmentwatch.org.


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IWA Young Water Professionals International Conference (July 16-18)
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The 4th IWA Young Water Professionals International Conference (16-18 July 2008, Berkeley, USA) will provide a forum for young researchers and professionals working in water and wastewater research, technology and management to present their work and meet their peers from all over the world.

To register, please visit:
http://www.iwa-ywpc.org/templates/ld_templates/layout_654239.aspx?ObjectId=654242


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2008 Call for Paper (On-going)
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The excellent reputation of the WIT Conference Programme in different parts of the world continues to grow and serves as an ideal medium to achieve the Wessex Instituteapos;s International knowledge transfer objectives. The Institute is committed to acting as a link between professional and academic bodies and encouraging trans-disciplinary research.

To reviewnbsp;a listing of 2008 Conferencesnbsp;amp; to submit an abstract, please visit:
http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2008/