Our Earth
10 Tips For Sustainable Eating
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Lifting the flap and thinking a wee bit outside the box is good for your health and the health of our planet. Here are 10 simple things you can do to achieve sustainable, healthy eating from the folks at Simple Bites: 1. Learn to Cook – Without basic cooking knowledge, none of this is possible. Learning to cook your favorite foods using local ingredients can really make all the difference. 2. Eat Locally – If you care … Read entire article »
Filed under: Health, Lifestyle, Lift The Flap, Our Earth
Windfall Coming To TV!
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Windfall, the documentary movie recently shown at the Teeswater Town Hall, is coming to television! On November 6th, CBC Documentary Channel will present the movie at 8 p.m. The Documentary Channel is available as: Channel 513 on Shaw Direct (satellite) Channel 336 on Bell (satellite) Channel 385 on Kincardine Cable. Wind power. it’s sustainable . It burns no fossil fuels. It produces no air pollution. What’s more, it cuts down dependency on foreign oil. That’s what the people of Meredith, in … Read entire article »
Filed under: In The News, Our Earth
November 2011 Almanac
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November is the eleventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with the length of 30 days. November retained its name (from the Latin novem meaning “nine”) when January and February were added to the Roman calendar. November is a month of spring in the Southern Hemisphere and autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. Therefore November in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of May in the Northern … Read entire article »
October 2011 Almanac
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October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with a length of 31 days. The eighth month in the old Roman calendar, October retained its name (from the Latin “octo” meaning “eight”) after July and August, after Julius and Augustus Caesar respectively, when the calendar was originally created by the Romans. October is commonly associated with the season of autumn in the Northern hemisphere and spring … Read entire article »
Better Alternatives?
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Often getting from point A to point B is no straight line – especially when dealing with near-sighted bus drivers. Global warming and climate change are real – deal with it. The days of 400 horsepower Detroit behemoths have gone to join the Edsel Ranger and the Zeppelin. So can be said of the ‘mega-projects’ like honking great windfarms in Lake Erie and B.C.’s infamous Site C dam. If the need for alternative fuels has taught … Read entire article »
Filed under: In The News, Our Earth, The View
WINDFALL To Be Presented in Teeswater
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Wind power. it’s sustainable . it burns no fossil fuels.it produces no air pollution. What’s more, it cuts down dependency on foreign oil. That’s what the people of Meredith, in upstate New York first thought when a wind developer looked to supplement the rural farm town’s failing economy with a farm of their own — that of 40 industrial wind turbines. WINDFALL, a beautifully photographed feature length film, documents how this proposal divides Meredith’s residents as they … Read entire article »
7 Billion Ghosty-Goblins on Hallowe’en
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October 31st this year will be quite the day. As we are facepainting the kids or hunting for gumboots to go under those Transformer or Lady Gaga costumes, somewhere in the world the 7 billionth child will be born! The most likely candidate country for the 7 billionth child will be India or perhaps in Africa, where currently population growth is the highest on the planet. How do these numbers translate? Well, when I was born in … Read entire article »
Filed under: In The News, Our Earth
September Almanac
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September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with 30 days, beginning on the 1st of September and ending on the 30th of September. In Latin, septem means “seven” and septimus means “seventh”; September was in fact the seventh month of the Roman calendar until 153 BC, when the first month changed from Kalendas Martius (1 March) to Kalendas Januarius (1 January). In the Northern hemisphere, … Read entire article »
Today’s Events
February 7, 2012 – Quilt Tying Group - 9:30 am
February 7, 2012 – Reach Out & Learn - 7:00 pm
Coming Events
- February 7, 2012 – Quilt Tying Group - 9:30 am
- February 7, 2012 – Reach Out & Learn - 7:00 pm
February 8, 2012 – Recycling - Mildmay - All Day- February 9, 2012 – Teeswater Pipe Band - 7:30 pm
February 10, 2012 – Youth Curling - 6:00 pm- February 13, 2012 – South Bruce Business Information Meeting - 7:30 pm
February 14, 2012 – Valentine's Day - All Day- February 14, 2012 – Recycling - Teeswater/Formosa - 8:00 am
- February 14, 2012 – Quilt Tying Group - 9:30 am
- February 16, 2012 – Teeswater Pipe Band - 7:30 pm
- February 17, 2012 – Youth Curling - 6:00 pm
- February 21, 2012 – Quilt Tying Group - 9:30 am
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