A message from the Ontario Clean Air Alliance
As temperatures across Ontario climb into the baking hot range, we can also expect demand for electricity to surge. And that surge in electricity demand will be met by ramping up the output of Ontario’s dirty coal-fired generators – particularly Nanticoke and Lambton. It’s the perfect recipe [...]
In the past reusable items that turned up at the Tweed Landfill were set aside so that they could be recovered if anyone came along who had a use for them. Last year this was outlawed by Council. This week Denice Wilkins went to the Tweed Council to talk about reconsidering the policy and about [...]
by Shannon Binder Bray
Tweed Green Up was delighted to welcome Australian environmentalist and rainforest activist John Seed to the Eastminster United Church in Belleville on Tuesday May 1, 2007. Seed presented Climate Change, Despair and Empowerment to an audience of approximately 100 people concerned with the world’s chaotic climate. Belleville was one stop of many [...]
On Wednesday, April 18, Shireen Szarka and I, Sue Vander Wey, went to St Carthagh Catholic School where my daughter Emily Vander Wey is a student in grade 7. At our first Green-Up meeting we talked about how Tweed Green-Up might bring some energy to the schools to help with Earth Day celebrations. [...]
By Samantha Craggs
The Intelligencer, May 3, 2007
Awareness of climate change should spread from person to person through Belleville, a word-of-mouth campaign that forms a grassroots movement, says a prominent environmental activist.
John Seed, an Australian rain forest activist who goes from city to city for his climate change roadshow, told an audience at Eastminster United Church [...]
