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A Natural Solution to the Obesity Epidemic

Dr Mike Hart | Posted 05.15.2013 | Canada Living
Read More: Healthy Food, Healthy Eating, Healthy Living Health News, Pesticides, Organic Farming, Soil, Children, Community, Obesity, Childhood Obesity, Education, Organic Food, Vegetables, Environment, Food, Doctors, Public Education, Healthy Living Spirit, Health Care, Canada Obesity, Canada Child Obesity, Canada Living News
Dr Mike Hart

Many different organizations and health experts have purposed various solutions to solve the western world's obesity epidemic. But the underlying problem to the obesity epidemic is the current population's lack of connectivity to the soil, the environment and the food supply. If we can reconnect our current population with the food supply and the community, we will create a healthier and brighter future for generations to come.

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Why We Don't Need Carbon Cowboys

Jens Wieting | Posted 01.11.2013 | Canada
Read More: Protection, Salmon, Sandy, Carbon Offset, Soil, Bc, Forest, Rainforest, Great Bear Rainforest, Geo-Engineering, Conservation, Carbon Credit, Old Growth, British Columbia, Canada, Greenpeace, Sierra Club BC, Trees, Haida Gwaii, Forestethics, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Logging, Carbon Sink, Carbon Market, Global Warming, Canada News
Jens Wieting

The controversial geo-engineering and salmon restoration project off the coast of Haida Gwaii received more international criticism this month. The mind-boggling part of the story is that there is no need whatsoever to dump iron into the ocean to support nature to help us in the fight against global warming, especially not along the West Coast of North America.

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David Suzuki Wants to Stop Mega-Quarry

David Suzuki | Posted 12.17.2012 | Canada
Read More: Soil, Potatoes, Soupstock, Mega-Quarry, Agriculture, Melancthon, Food, Highland Companies, Food Security, Sarah Harmer Mega Quarry, Canada News
David Suzuki

A billion tonnes of limestone lie beneath the rural countryside in Melancthon Township, 100 kilometres north of Toronto. A plan to remove it spotlights the challenges faced everywhere when the desire to protect valuable and ever-diminishing farmland clashes with efforts to push industrial development.

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