Do you want to eat local healthy foods? Want to learn how to grow your own vegetables? Connect with local farmers? Cook delicious dishes with local ingredients? This program will help. I participated last summer and tried some delicious recipes and grew a lot of cool things!
Manitoba’s energy future is at a crossroads: Do we go down the road of building ever more generation to feed a never ending thirst for electricity, or do we recognize the limits of growth and look for ways to reduce demand while maximizing the benefits of the energy we do consume for all Manitobans?
Despite the comprehensive reports from the International Panel on Climate Change and years of negotiations, this year’s UN climate talks in Qatar failed to deliver real cuts to greenhouse gas emissions. Neither did they ensure poor countries have adequate financial support to deal with climate change impacts.
Manitoba’s French school division (Division scolaire franco-manitobain) has chosen to ban cosmetic lawn pesticides on their school grounds. This includes 24 schools, two-thirds of which are located in rural regions.
While the City of Winnipeg has approved 30 km/h zones around elementary schools and is considering reducing residential streets to 40 km/h, why is The Highway Traffic Board, a provincial authority, looking at increasing speed limits? It’s a question for all road users.
You can help the WRENCH make holiday bicycle dreams come true. Volunteer, donate, tell your friends, it all helps to put wheels under less fortunate children.
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