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Do you want to host an event during Canada Water Week?
Just like it sounds, Canada Water Week is a week-long celebration of water from coast-to-coast-to-coast, coinciding with World Water Day on March 22. This year, Canada Water Week runs from March 19 to 25, 2012. Individuals, organizations and governments from across the country are rallying around the theme of “Discovering our Water Footprint” by organizing or participating in fun and educational events.
Guelph is the city that is making a difference; being a groundwater-based community with a finite resource, conserving, protecting and enjoying our water is everyone’s responsibility. If you are interested in Read the rest
Shane Philips’ “Walk for Water” Diary
Preface:
During the passed few weeks in my travels through parts of the middle east and europe one thing that has resonated even more in my day to day life is water. In my visit to Dubai, one of the richest cities in the world, a city literally built out of the dessert, one thing was blazingly apparent. Through all the technical and engineering achievements and billions of dollars of disposable money, water was the forgotten traggedy of this glorious city. As I sat in my 7 star hotel room I was reminded that drinking the water that flowed from… Read the rest
Thoughts from the “Walk for Water”
Our sincere thanks to Kira Burger, one of the 6 dedicated souls who walked to Queen’s Park in Toronto from Guelph on a “Walk for Water”….
It’s raining. The sky is the colour of the pavement that stretches out before our tired legs. I see Toronto’s CN Tower hovering on the horizon, appearing more a mirage in the mist than a physical reality. It’s 7am on a Sunday morning in Burlington. Mixed in with the hum of cars passing us by, I can hear the laughter of groggy voices, and the patter of five pairs of feet keeping an… Read the rest
GRCA News: Watershed residents can participate in survey on water issues
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Grand River Conservation Authority
GRCA NEWS
Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011
Release on receipt
Grand River watershed residents
can participate in survey on water issues
The Grand River Conservation Authority is asking residents to participate in a survey on water issues in the Grand River watershed.
The GRCA is conducting the survey as part of a project to update a Water Management Plan that will examine the… Read the rest
WATER WAY Performance
Wellington Water Watchers Official Comment on the proposed Management Plan for the Dolime Quarry
FOODSTOCK organizers nominated for tourism awards
FOODSTOCK organizers nominated for tourism awards
Movement to stop the mega quarry could garner tourism awards
November 8th, 2011
Honeywood, ON – Two key organizers of FOODSTOCK are nominated for the regional Hills of Headwaters Tourism Awards. Less than a month has passed since the October 16th event took place, yet FOODSTOCK has become something of a legend.
On that blustery Sunday, 100 chefs from Nunavut to Saskatchewan descended on a small Ontario farming community north of Shelburne, ON to help put a… Read the rest
If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
* Guelph Festival of Moving Media: If A Tree Falls…
The Guelph Festival of Moving Media
with the CSA Docurama Film Series and OPIRG Guelph
present…
If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Thursday, November 3, 2011
6:30PM
University of Guelph, Thornbrough 1200
$6 PWYC – Free to all UofG students
What could lead someone to decide that arson was a reasonable response to environmental problems? How had a shadowy group—the ELF(Earth Liberation Front)—been formed, and how had investigators cracked them? How had someone like Daniel (the films protagonist) found… Read the rest
“Aqualibria” The Movie
http://www.guelphmercury.com/videozone/617534–aqualibria-the-movie
“Aqualibria” The Movie
Guelph Civic League Annual General Meeting – Dec 1st
Hello GCL member groups! We would like to give notice of the next GCL Annual General Meeting. It will take place on Thursday, December 1st, from 7 pm to 9 pm at 10 Carden. We will of course be electing a new executive committee. Note that there is currently a number of vacancies on the executive committee, so please consider volunteering some of your time to support healthy local democracy in Guelph. In addition, there will be the presentation of the annual report and a discussion on where to focus our energies in the coming year. We also will be
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