Next week, negotiators from almost every country in the world will be in Bonn, Germany to begin work on a new global deal on climate change. We’re trying to make sure that those negotiators consider the needs of people already being affected by climate change, including the tens of millions Africans who are projected to [...]
Thanks to David Perham for the photo…
Golden Town Cruisers present the Canada Day Car Show on Wednesday, July 1st – 10 am to 4 pm at harbourside on Bayfield St. in beautiful Meaford, On (Spectators Free). Join them for a day of fun featuring great antiques, classics, muscle cars and hot-rods as Meaford celebrates Canada’s [...]
Blue Mountain Foundation for the Arts presents
The Town and Country Studio Tour and Preview
PREVIEW MAY 6 – JUNE 7, 2009 THE ARTS CENTRE
TOUR JUNE 5, 6, 7, 2009
The Studio Tour Artists Gallery Preview showcases the fine art and craft of 68 BMFA member artists from May 6th to June 7th, during regular gallery hours. Start and plan your Studio [...]
The VH1 Save The Music Foundation was founded in 1997 as a public affairs initiative of the VH1 network. The Foundation’s core mission is to restore instrumental music education programs, ensuring that every child has access to a complete education that includes the benefits of music instruction. Since its inception, The Foundation has remained faithful [...]
“Lovers and Other Strangers” with Don Jackson is now playing on-line, commercial free, right here at chfi.com. Each weekday listen to a brand new show, as often as you like, whenever you like. You can also download the show to your iPod or mp3 player. Click here to subscribe to the show with iTunes and have [...]
The Meaford Municipal Farmers’ Market is gearing up for its third season under the Rotary Pavilion at beautiful Meaford Harbour.
Once again, the Market will be held every Friday throughout the summer beginning June 5th and running until Thanksgiving. This year Market hours will be from 3pm to 7pm…. Just in time for supper at the Market Bistro!
A family [...]
I just signed a petition to Yvo de Boer, who is running UN climate change negotiations, I hope that you’ll do so too here:
http://www.one.org/international/climate/?rc=climatetaf
Leaders are coming together later this year to sign a new agreement on climate change – a new Kyoto treaty. The negotiations for this agreement are taking place in a few weeks. [...]
Susan Boyle’s remarkable voice has shocked many on Britain’s Got Talent!
Facebook, MySpace, Twitter msn…e.t.c… has been filled with comments about this unique lady.
APRIL, 11th, 2009 - Susan Boyle shocked everybody in the auditorium as they we’re all amazed. Before Boyle sang everybody had a disgusted look on there face, and more than likely thinking “oh this will be a [...]
This year, leaders will broker a new agreement on climate change – a new Kyoto treaty. Negotiations are taking place in a few weeks, and it looks as though major polluters may ignore dealing with the impacts of climate change. The consequences of which will be felt hardest in developing countries.
The man running the negotiations is [...]
This is a book with a big idea, big enough to change political thinking, and bigger than its authors at first intended. The problem they originally set out to solve was why health within a population gets progressively worse further down the social scale; they estimate that together they have clocked up more than 50 [...]
In Al Gore’s brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of “generational mission” — the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement — to set it right. Gore’s [...]
Louise Fresco argues that a smart approach to large-scale, industrial farming and food production will feed our planet’s incoming population of nine billion. Only foods like (the scorned) supermarket white bread, she says, will nourish on a global scale.
Saturday, July 4 and Sunday, July 5
Presented by the Meaford Creative Arts Association on Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 and Sunday 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Over 70 artists and artisans from the Meaford area and Southern Ontario. This annual event showcases high quality work including paintings in watercolours, acrylics, oil and pastels as well as photography, jewellery, pottery, [...]
As soaring oil prices and greenhouse gas emissions fuel the search for cheaper and cleaner sources of energy, a Japanese aerospace manufacturer may have found the right stuff for a solution. It’s a windmill you can call your very own. Yokohama-based aerospace manufacturer, Nippi Corporation, has developed a revolutionary 20 kW wind turbine power generation system [...]
The alternative sources of energy are constantly evolving. Scientists and manufacturers are trying to come up with better products that are user friendly and economical. Government is drawing policies that encourage use of alternative sources of energy. Researchers, entrepreneurs and common people are devising their own ways to use clean and green sources of energy. [...]
