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The Nova Scotia Environmental Network will post action alerts from our members here.

Are YOU ready to Give it Up for Earth Day?
Are you ready to try a meat-free diet or green your cleaning routine? Will you put an "out of order" sign on your TV or stop buying stuff?

This Earth Month (April 1 to 30), your challenge is to help create a healthier world by making some changes to your daily routine. With four simple actions to choose from, what will you give up?

Register your commitments on earthday.ca/giveitup.

Fantastic prizes! Every participant will be entered in a draw to win prizes that support your healthy lifestyle choices after the campaign is over.

Ready to Give it up?
Sign up here http://www.earthday.ca/giveitup/get_started.php or for more information contact campaigns@earthday.ca Posted by: Prabh Banga
earthday.ca/giveitup

Visit Valley Family Farms Blog
For a complete view of the land-use issues currently raging in the Province, visit our blog to learn what you can do to "Stop the Madness!"

www.valleyfamilyfarms.com
Posted by: Valley Family Farms Blog Team
www.valleyfamilyfarms.com

Help kids in South Africa by sending a life-changing gift of kindness to your loved ones!
Help kids in South Africa by sending
a life-changing gift of kindness to your loved ones!

Project COLORS based in NS & South Africa is working on your behalf through our sponsorships campaign.

• FEED A TINY TUMMY $30
• SPONSOR AN AGENT OF CHANGE $100
• 1st AID KIT $30
• SAVE A South African STREET DOGS $30
• RESTORE A PRE-SCHOOL $100

HOW TO ORDER

With each gift purchased…

Your friends & loved ones will receive a beautifully hand crafted card with photo in their name.

• Please e-mail us your order & get more info at: christmas@projectcolors.com

Full details posted on: www.projectcolors.com

About COLORS
The Project COLORS International Society is a humanitarian aid organization created in 2004 currently working in South Africa. Project COLORS strives to develop and assist projects abroad through hands on initiatives helping children in disadvantaged communities. Projects are based on educational activities & basic health projects with the goal of inspiring children and youth to make the world a better place, one step at a time. www.projectcolors.com
Posted by: Sunyata Choyce Project COLORS
www.projectcolors.com

What's Special About this Forest?
Plant species that date back to the dinosaur era.
Deeply indented fossils of unusual, unstudied creatures and plants.
A synergy of yellow birch and hemlock acting in concert to purify the air and water - a life-giving gift to all breathing and spawning beings.

Renowned botanist Diana Beresford-Kroeger recently toured a portion of the 313 acre parcel of land which is being saved from clear cutting by ordinary Nova Scotians through the Sheltering Forests campaign, co-ordinated by the Friends of Redtail Society.

Her report highlights the importance of saving this parcel of forest. Read Diana Beresford-Kroeger’s “Green Alert: A Scientific Report on the Forest of Pictou County, Nova Scotia Canada” at http://www.friendsofredtail.ca/green_alert.html

Then visit http://www.friendsofredtail.ca/sheltering_forests.html and make a donation to bring this ambitious project to completion. $200,000 has already been raised to purchase this land. $50,000 is still needed to complete the purchase. All donations above $20 are tax deductible.

Tickets for David Myles Live @ Your House are also available on line for just $50 at http://www.friendsofredtail.ca/myles.html. Only 250 tickets will be sold. Get yours now, and help save a unique Nova Scotian forest. Posted by: Friends of Redtail Society
http://www.friendsofredtail.ca/sheltering_forests.html

ECO-CONTEST: How did you do that?
Did you artfully revive furniture headed to the dump?
Bake a delicious cake with organic ingredients?
Start your own environmental club from scratch?

Tell us how you did it---step by step---and you could win 1 of 12 fabulous Panasonic camcorders and digital cameras.

We are looking for original, environmentally-beneficial projects that include clear instructions and pictures. Your submission should be unique but simple enough to be imitated!

2010 EcoAction Challenge Overview
1. Projects must be completed before the challenge deadline of November 15, 2010.
2. Maximum (2) two entries per person; entrants are only eligible to win once.
3. Photographs and a summary of the project may be used for publicity or promotional purposes associated with Earth Day Canada.

For more information or how to enter, visit www.earthday.ca


Posted by: Prabh Banga, Program Coordinator, Earth Day Canada
www.earthday.ca

How did you do that?
Did you artfully revive furniture headed to the dump?
Bake a delicious cake with organic ingredients?
Start your own environmental club from scratch?

Tell us how you did it—step by step—and you could win 1 of 12 fabulous Panasonic camcorders and digital cameras.

We are looking for original, environmentally-beneficial projects that include clear instructions and pictures. Your submission should be unique but simple enough to be imitated!

For more information and how to enter, visit http://www.ecoactionteams.ca/pub/index.php Posted by: Prabh Banga, Program Coordinator, Earth Day Canada
http://www.ecoactionteams.ca/pub/index.php

Save the Bedford Basin Reef and Tidal Pool
Please sign this petition to save the Bedford basin Reef. We have written a letter to the Waterfront Development Corporation indicating that we would like to see the tidal reef and pool and surrounding area turned into a \\\"Coastal Park\\\"...and Crosby Island, reinstated as a proper island. Instead of more condos and $$ shopping boutiques, lets save the natural habitat for migratory birds and other wildlife.
Please take a few moments to sign the petition, doesn\\\'t matter where you are from.
If you want to watch the video we have uploaded to Youtube in efforts to raise awareness about the possible loss of this beautiful natural habitat..please visit the link below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAoenfm0gOI

Thank you so much!
Solidarity! Posted by: Sandra
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bedfordbasinreef/

Protect Nova Scotia Agricultural Land Petition
We encourage you to sign this online petition and to spread the word through your friends and networks.

In recognition of the fight by citizens of Kings County, Nova Scotia, to protect hundreds of acres of agricultural land from development-purposed amendments to the land use by-law, as brought forward by the Municipality of the County of Kings, and

In recognition of the work of the Nova Scotia Agricultural Land Review Committee,

Be it resolved, that there is a need to strengthen the Province of Nova Scotia’s interest in agricultural land to ensure such land is respected as a non-renewable resource and given unequivocal protection from development.

With my endorsement I petition the Councillors of the Municipality of the County of Kings and/or the Members of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia to place a moratorium on any further development of Nova Scotia's agricultural land, in order to ensure the food security of future generations of Nova Scotians.
Posted by: Pauline Raven (Biosolids and Waste Water Working G
http://www.petitiononline.com/p4n3s2a1/petition.html

Climate Change and the G20
Climate Change and the G8/G20: Not Business as Usual
KAIROS North-South Town Hall Meetings.

While Canada welcomes the world’s most powerful leaders to the G20 summit in June, KAIROS and Canadians welcome Southern and Indigenous partners to share with us the real impacts of climate change on their daily lives … and to discuss what a just solution to the climate crisis could look like.

Those who are most affected by climate change have no place at the decision-making table. This “Global Town Hall” is a chance for us to come together in a dialogue of real substance to talk about real solutions. Participants will have an opportunity to hear from partners, local experts, and then to engage in dialogue with them and each other as we search for effective solutions to the global injustice of climate change.

** When: Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Time: 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Where: St. Andrew's United Church, 6036 Cobourg Road
Contact: Bev MacDonald, pharmin@ns.sympatico.ca, 902-228-2603

Speakers: Isaiah Kipyegon Toroitich, Kenya Climate and Economic Justice, Norwegian Church Aid; Naty Atz Sunc, Guatemala - General Coordinator of CEIBA, the Association for Community Development and Promotion

Soup supper provided. Donations welcome. Posted by: Janelle Frail

Public Consultations Now for NS Coasts
Give your input on Coastal Management in Nova Scotia. The complete schedule for the Public Oceans Network (PON)’s public consultations is as follows:
• May 19 - Antigonish
• May 20 – Sydney
• May 26 - HRM (Dartmouth)
Venues and locations are available at http://www.gov.ns.ca/coast in addition to these public consultations the PON plans targeted private meetings with special interests. The public is invited to give input via the Department’s website, (http://www.gov.ns.ca/coast/views.htm ) or via written submission. For more information and directions to the open houses visit: www.gov.ns.ca/coast Telephone: (902) 424-2894

*Read the State of the Coast report: http://www.gov.ns.ca/coast/state-of-the-coast.htm
Posted by: Tamara Lorincz, Executive Director
www.gov.ns.ca/coast

Take the NS Litter Pledge: Best Thing You'll Never Do!
Not even if I think my litter is biodegradable; not even if there isn't a trash can handy. Not even if nobody's watching, or my litter is something really, really small. I pledge to never, ever litter. Because it's the best thing I'll never do for the environment.

For more information about the 2008 Litter Survey, or how to organize a litter clean-up in your community:
Nova Scotia Environment
Waste Resource Management Branch
PO Box 442
5151 Terminal Road
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2P8
Phone: (902) 424-4300
Toll free: 1-877-9-ENVIRO
E-mail: SWRM@gov.ns.ca
Posted by: Nova Scotia Department of Environment
www.bestthingyoullneverdo.ca/pledge.php