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Durham Reuse Day October 24 2015

SGC Admin: Durham Residents can dispose of their gently used items in Durham Regions Reuse Day… Check the following…. 

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When: October 24 2015

Where: Durham Region Waste Management Centre: 4600 Garrard Rd. Whitby. 

Time: 9 am to 1 pm

Event: Residents are encouraged to bring forward “good quality” items which will be transferred for use by Habitat For Humanity ReStores, Canadian Diabetes Association, Goodwill and Salvation Army. Please Note: Hazardous waste, unwanted electronics, items that are overly worn, used or in disrepair will not be accepted. Your cooperation is appreciated… :) 

Reuse days take place once per month from now until October. 

Contact: 1-800-667-5671 or visit wwww.durham.ca/wasteevents

source: Whitby This Week October 15 2015

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From our inbox to you: From the David Suzuki Foundation. Kids who spend time in nature are happier, healthier and smarter

SGC Admin: From our inbox to you: From the David Suzuki Foundation.

Kids who spend time in nature are happier, healthier and smarter

It’s back-to-school time — time to get back outside!

Help kids explore the outdoors while teaching them about environmental responsibility. Join the David Suzuki Foundation’s Back to School Superhero Challenge.

  • You and your family and/or classroom will receive a superhero-themed activity each week for four weeks (starting September 21).
  • Each activity teaches kids about pressing environmental issues and connects them to the great outdoors.
  • Activities are adapted from the David Suzuki Foundation’s Connecting With Nature educational guides.
  • You’ll be entered to win an autographed children’s book by David Suzuki and a beautiful Herschel hemp backpack. Classrooms can win a collection of autographed David Suzuki children’s books.

Research shows that children who spend time outside are healthier, happier and smarter. We also know that people who feel connected to nature are more likely to care about protecting it.

So let’s get kids outside and save the world!

Sincerely,

Harpreet Johal
Fellow Back to School Superhero

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SGC Admin: From our inbox to you From The David Suzuki Foundation…. Blue Dot News…

SGC Admin: From our inbox to you From The David Suzuki Foundation…. Blue Dot News… 

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 Blue Dot News

JOIN 79,324 CANADIANS AND 73 MUNICIPALITIES

Despite living on the shores of Winnipeg’s water source, residents of Shoal Lake 40 have gone without drinkable tap water for almost two decades.

Read more…

Read P.E.I. activist Mary Boyd’s message to Canadians during the Blue Dot Tour about the big impact a small province can have on the Blue Dot movement and the rest of Canada.

Read more… 

Musician Derek Olive is crossing Canada on a bike to support the Blue Dot movement. Find out why, and where to see him in your community!

Read more… 
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SGC From our inbox to you from SumOfUs: The Canadian government just gave it permission to drill for oil off Nova Scotia’s cost

SGC From our Inbox to You .. From SomofUs Re: Shell proposal to dig off of Nova Scotia… without having to cap a blow out for 3 weeks…. ?? The rest of the article can be found by clicking on the link… there is also a petition available for signage..

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This is Shell’s dream. The Canadian government just gave it permission to drill for oil off Nova Scotia’s cost — and the company doesn’t need to cap an oil blowout for 21 days.

Are they kidding? Shell will be allowed to freely spill oil into the ocean for three weeks — potentially wreaking environmental havoc on Nova Scotia’samazing marine life, major fishing grounds, coastal communities and the Sable Island National Park Reserve, the world’s largest breeding colony of grey seals.

And it’s all so Shell can save a few bucks by not having to keep safety equipment nearby.

The U.S. requires oil companies to cap blowouts within 24 hours. Canada is giving Shell three weeks to bring equipment in from Norway after a blowout happens — 5,000 kilometres away. Please Click here to read the rest of this article. 

The SumOfUs community has stood up to Big Oil’s destruction of the environment, and we’ve had a major impact. Hundreds of thousands of us came together to stop Shell from drilling in the Arctic, and to demand that Chevron pay for its crimes in the Amazon. Now, let’s stand together to keep Shell out of Nova Scotia.

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Durham Residents heads up… Plastic does not belong in the Green Bin Folks… :)

Durham Region works department wants to remind folk not to put plastic in the organic green bin.. 

Plastic doesn’t break down in the processing facility and creates inferior compost. 

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Please Do Not Place the Following items in the green bin: 

  • Any plastic bag (unless 100 % bio degradable) including, bread and milk bags
  • Tubs
  • Wrap
  • Baggies (such as sandwich/freezer bags)
  • Plastic cutlery
  • Food containers (peanut butter jars, yogurt, margarine) These belong in your blue bin

Use only 100% certified compostable liner bag brands for your green bin… you can use newspaper or paper towel to line the bin before placing the bag in it… this helps with any condensation, especially in the warmer weather. 

Only organic goods go in the green bin… that’s stuff that will break down and turn into compost, such as vegetable peelings, meat, soiled paper towels and tissues and any left over food items (taken out of their containers)…. 

 

source: Whitby This Week July 22 2015 Edition.