May 5 to 11 is International Compost Week, building awareness of composting, and the importance of "feeding the soil."
What better time for Cathy Nesbitt, founder of Cathy's Crawly Composters, to look back on her 12 years of promoting vermicomposting.
Vermicomposting uses red wiggler worms to transform organic waste - from coffee grounds to eggshells and orange peels - into gardener's "black gold," rich compost and worm castings.
In "Urban Watersheds: Runoff to Renewal" Alexandra Cousteau's Expedition Blue Planet explores the hidden world of water under Toronto, Canada's largest city. In this short film, Alexandra Cousteau examines the role of rivers in our urban ecosystems and interviews Lake Ontario Waterkeeper Mark Mattson and Lost Rivers Founder Helen Mills - among others - to learn of their vision of a healthy urban hydrosphere.
The world’s hydrogen and fuel cell community will come together in Toronto, Canada from June 3-7, 2012 for the World Hydrogen Energy Conference 2012 (WHEC2012). The event will be celebrating its 19th edition and will take place at the Sheraton Centre Toronto.
The Ontario Feed-In Tariff Forum is the annual, must-attend, conference for FIT contract holders, developers, manufacturers, suppliers, service providers and government. Now in its third year, this sell-out conference attracts industry leaders, policy advisors and key personnel from all the scheme agencies.
The Ontario Feed-In Tariff Forum is the annual, must-attend, conference for FIT contract holders, developers, manufacturers, suppliers, service providers and government. Now in its third year, this sell-out conference attracts industry leaders, policy advisors and key personnel from all the scheme agencies.
The Stop Community Food Centre strives to increase access to healthy food in a manner that maintains dignity, builds community and challenges inequality. Located in downtown Toronto, The Stop provides frontline services such as a drop-in, food bank, perinatal program, community action program, as well as bake ovens and markets, community cooking, community advocacy, sustainable food systems education and urban agriculture programs. Underlying all of our work is the belief that healthy food is a basic human right.
Video courtesy of Mercury Films.
