From CASSE's Daly News:

"All scientific research in the National Parks has been terminated, and Environment Canada has cancelled its work on climate adaptation by laying off all eighteen scientists in the program. Top experts on ocean pollutants,…

Sarah Elton, author of the book Consumed: Sustainable Food for a Finite Planet, was on Power & Politics with Evan Solomon.

Elton raised some of the issues with our current global food system that Raj Patel raises in his book Stuffed & Starved, which I have read and recommend if you want to learn more about the practices and impacts of the global food system.

Solomon was tough but fair in questioning Elton about the global food system being…

The following excerpt by Richard Heinberg  is reprinted from the new book Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth, edited by Tom Butler and George Wuerthner, published by Post Carbon Institute and Watershed Media,…

James Hoggan on the Polluted Public Square

11 books to inform and inspire your Transition adventures

A new book by Phil Ackerman-Leist, Rebuilding the Foodshed, showcases some of the most promising, replicable models for growing, processing, and distributing sustainably grown food, this book points the reader toward the next stages of the food revolution. It also covers the full landscape of the burgeoning local-food movement, from rural to suburban to urban, and from backyard gardens to large-scale…

Arctic Death Spiral: CryoSat-2 Confirms Sea Ice Volume Has Collapsed

Stay tuned as we integrate Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn feeds to this Ning website.

https://www.facebook.com/events/524348897594968/permalink/530152003681324/#!/sustainabilityeducatingforaction

Transition Winnipeg Twitter page is now active.

Here's a new book written by Transition Winnipeg's Chair, Mark Burch. The Simplicity Exercises: A sourcebook for simplicity educators. 

I wanted to help give some info to the Co-housing group.

here is The Canadian Cohousing Network's website link:

http://www.cohousing.ca/index.htm

and here is the Cohousing Association of the United States website:…

An inspiring little encounter I had today in waiting at the Balmoral Terminal opposite UofW for the free bus that takes me home within 4 blocks, when I am just between two free buses that would take me door-to-door, which isn't worth waiting for over 10 minutes when I am perfectly able to walk, part of the way or all the way.

A bus driver was sitting on the outside bench near the shelter taking his roller blades off.  As I have gone to work by folding bicycle (to fit into metropolitan…

Reprinted from my weekly column for the  Independent of Barnes County - a NEW locally owned newspaper near Valley City, ND.

Science and technology. Though I have been accused my entire life of being a “Mother Earth” sort of person, I love science and technology. Where would we be without it.

In…