Environmental and health organizations welcome a decision by the Provincial Government to ban toxic lawn pesticides in Manitoba. At a news conference today outside the Manitoba Legislature, Conservation and Water Stewardship Minister Gord Mackintosh announced legislation that will phase out the sale and use of harmful cosmetic pesticides.
Polling results released today indicate a large majority of Manitobans – 71% – support a law that would phase-out the use and sale of lawn and garden pesticides across the province.
This week, the Republic of Maldives has stepped up as a champion for biodiversity by pledging the entire country to become a Biosphere Reserve.
A healthy environment is a prerequisite for human survival. And yet, Canada has no constitutional protection for nature. Help Green Action Centre launch a campaign for rights for nature in Manitoba.
Expert evidence to be presented to the Public Utilities Board shows that Manitoba Hydro, once an energy conservation leader, is slipping behind other North American utilities and will be near the bottom of the pack by 2020.
In 2008, the Ecuador National Assembly passed a constitutional amendment granting the most extensive rights for nature that exist anywhere in the world.
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