October 23, 2007
Green as a Thistle points out an interesting waste problem in one of her posts, when she discusses pumpkin carving. For Halloween millions of folks will buy a pumpkin to carve it and then display it on their front lawn or porch.
This is a tradition as old as time and many won’t part or change it, but let’s take a look at it from an eco angle, the waste angle. Some might do something with the carvings or the pumpkin itself, while many
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May 16, 2007
A new report by the federal government suggests that the organic farming industry in Canada is growing at an immense rate.
Thunder Bay’s Chronicle Journal writes
According to figures released Wednesday in Statistics Canada’s 2006 agriculture census, 15,511 farms reported growing organic products last May. That includes those that have been certified organic by an authorizing agency, those that are in the process of getting certified, and
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