[GREN-Exec] Fw: January Greenbelt Watch
Randy B. McLean
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Tue Jan 19 11:56:56 EST 2010
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Subject: January Greenbelt Watch
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How you can support the Markham Foodbelt:
Show your support at the public consultation meeting:
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Time: 7 - 9:30 p.m.
Location: Markham Civic Centre,
101 Town Centre Blvd.
Join us on-line:
Markham Foodbelt on Twitter
Support the Markham Foodbelt Facebook Fan Page
NEWS AND HOTSPOTS
Markham plan could contain sprawl, save farms
Developers frustrated by a Markham initiative to freeze town farmland, create denser housing
Phinjo Gombu, Toronto Star - Jan 9, 2010
Markham council is considering a radical proposal that would stop the sprawl of buildings to preserve 2,000 hectares of farmland. The plan would make Markham the only GTA municipality to voluntarily freeze its urban boundary.
Click here for the complete article
Markham's bold proposal is suburbia's salvation
Christopher Hume, Toronto Star Jan 18, 2010
The land-use rebellion now unfolding in Markham is another skirmish in the war against the development industry. At stake is who controls growth - government or industry?
Though some would have us believe that the end of suburbia represents a clash of cultures, an attack on middle-class virtues and market infallibility, it has more to do with wresting public powers from private hands.
Click here for the complete article
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Giant green dream covers city, Burlington
Eric McGuinness, The Hamilton Spectator - Jan 11, 2010
The next four weeks are critical to the fate of an ambitious plan for a huge Hamilton-Burlington park system.
The Cootes to Escarpment vision covers more than 3,000 hectares along 10 kilometres of the Niagara Escarpment and down to Cootes Paradise marsh at the west end of Lake Ontario.
Click here for the complete article
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Sustaining the Greenbelt
Evergreen Blog, Geoff Cape, Evergreen's Executive Director:
After eating too much over the Christmas holiday I am looking to the new year, thinking about food, and recalling a recent article by Jessica Leeder, published in the Globe and Mail on Tuesday, December 22, 2009: Farmers Fleeing Ontario's Greenbelt. Her article explored the challenges we face in balancing environmental conservation and farmland on the Greenbelt. The challenge is real.
Click here for the complete article
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Revisit the Simcoe plan
Toronto Star- Dec 13, 2009
Queen's Park is obliged to pay close attention when one of its own top planners warns that a provincial strategy meant to reduce urban sprawl and protect the environment will, in fact, do the opposite. That's what's in store for the Simcoe region, north of the GTA, if Ontario proceeds with its flawed intentions, according to Victor Doyle, manager of community planning at the ministry of municipal affairs.
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Proposed Motorway Plans To Rip Up Growth Management Plan and Rare Carolinian Habitats
By Dr. John Bacher, Preservation of Agricultural Lands Society
The Town of Fort Erie has some Ontario's greatest concentration of threatened Carolinian forests. However, this concentration of rare forests is being proposed by the Niagara Regional Council as a new location for a massive 60,000 capacity, "NASCAR-like" racing track, known as the Canadian Motorway Speedway.
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EVENTS
www.StopTheQuarry.ca
Community Call To Action
St Marys Cement Triggers a New Step in the Aggregate Licencein ongoing application for a massive below the water table aggregate development in Northeast Flamborough (Hamilton)
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Doors Open at 6:30 p.m.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel School - 1642 Centre Road, Carlisle
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Are you interested in renewable energy?
Do you have a barn or a riding arena?
Have you ever thought of putting solar panel(s) on it?
Have you ever thought of renting out to someone else who will install the solar panel(s)?
Learn about the Green Energy Act from people who are already doing projects to create renewable energy.
Thursday, January 28, 2010 6:30-9:00 PM
King City Arena
An initiative from the King Environmental Advisory Committee
Of note for farmers and owners of barns and riding arenas..one of the
companies we expect to come actually rents roofs! They install everything
and then either pay a flat rate or a portion of the income from selling the
electricity! No outlay of $ by the property owner!
For more information, contact: Jennifer Best 905-833-5321×4061
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Concerned Citizens of King Township invites you to an afternoon with Ontario's Environmental Commissioner Mr. Gord Miller
Sunday January 31, 2010 at 2:00 p.m.(door opens at 1:30)
The Country Day School Auditorium
13415 Dufferin St. King City
Free Admission
All are invited
Mr. Miller, the province's independent environmental watchdog, will discuss community planning in our Greenbelt and Ontario's Environmental Bill of Rights.
Members of the public are encouraged to participate in the question & answer session after Mr. Miller's presentation. Alternatively, questions for the Commissioner may be forwarded to cckt at kingtoday.ca up to one day before the event.
www.kingtoday.ca
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Grown Close to Home - Really!
Tired of food that looks and tastes like it has traveled miles to your plate? Not really sure where the "Grown Close to Home" food in the grocery stores comes from? Concerned about pesticides and chemicals on your food? Want to eat more local, sustainable food? Join us for a panel discussion about where, why, and how to eat local and sustainable foods in Waterloo Region. Get connected to your food and some of the farmers who grow it.
January 26, 2010, 7-9pm
Kitchener Public Library Main Branch, 85 Queen St N, Kitchener.
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