sust-mar: EAC Garden Party

Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 22:28:22 -0300 (ADT)
From: Mark Butler <ar427@chebucto.ns.ca>
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From: peggy cameron <p.cameron@ns.sympatico.ca>

Ecology Action Centre's 5th annual Garden Party & Auction
Sunday, May 25th, 12-3pm
St. Mary's Boat Club

Auctioneer:  John Dunsworth
Emcee:  Olga Milosovitch

Come and support Nova Scotia's oldest environmental organization AND
have fun too!  Hundreds of items include plants, garden consults,
weekend
get-aways, pottery, art, dance, music and transit tickets.  Over twenty
major sponsors, to please everyone from gardeners to culture vultures.
Mark Sunday May 25th on your calendar and join other EAC supporters adn
friends for a great afternoon!



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SUST-MAR WEB PICKS:

FOREST FIRE THREATENS PROTECTED AREA
  Crews continue to fight a forest fire in the largest remaining wild area in the Maritimes.
FULL STORY
http://novascotia.cbc.ca/template/servlet/View?filename=ns_shelburnefire20030522
© Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

FROM: SOLID WASTE & RECYCLING MAGAZINE
'Protesters scatter plastic bottles in front of NS legislature' 
http://www.solidwastemag.com/article.asp?id=18648
Copyright © 2003 Business Information Group. 

 * World 'losing battle against extinctions' *
The world will avert the threat of mass extinctions only when it finds a fairer way to share resources, a US scientist says.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/3047253.stm

 * Peruvian farmers learn from history *
Irrigation techniques perfected by the Incas 500 years ago are rapidly increasing farming output in Peru.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/3047421.stm

Copyright BBC 2003

EPA ADMINISTRATOR RESIGNS
Mark Hertsgaard, AlterNet
With the supposedly moderate Whitman out, Bush will redefine his approach
to the environment -- a critical battleground in 2004. Of course,
Republicans aren't going to change their environmental policies -- just
how they talk about them.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15977

LUNTZSPEAK
By Nick Garafola, Utne.com
Ever wonder how Bush and other Republicans get away with trashing Mother Nature while sounding like environmentalists? Meet Republican pollster Frank Luntz, master of doublespeak and the anti-environmentalist's secret weapon.
http://www.utne.com/webwatch/2003_58/news/10555-1.html 

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