Manitoba’s Auditor General reported that the province is on a course for failure on its promise to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 6 per cent below 1990 levels by 2012. As of 2008, Manitoba’s emissions were actually 17.6 per cent above 1990. We’re heading in the wrong direction and there’s still no plan in place to get us where we need to go.
Canada is set to become the launching pad for a new wave of radical biotechnology. The first genetically engineered (GE) animals for human consumption are on the menu for regulatory approval in the United States and GE salmon is the entrée.
Research of canned tuna released this week by Greenpeace showed that many retailers don’t even know what they are selling. Here in Canada, DNA samples from Clover Leaf brand tuna were found to contain multiple species both within the same can and within the same batch.
Green Action Centre estimates that Manitobans carry home more than 200-million disposable plastic bags provided by grocery stores and retail shops every year. How can we make this stop? What’s a person to do?
The debate is piling up about how to keep snow off the sidewalks. Green Action Centre offers its views on snow clearing.
Buy Nothing Day always falls on the last Friday in November, traditionally the first day of Christmas shopping. The Media Awareness Network provides a great teaching resource for Buy Nothing Day.
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