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City's reccomends charging community groups for flowerbeds (www.thesudburystar.com)There is no cost create and maintain the flowerbeds, but Matheson recommended the city charge $500 to every group approved to help defray the costs.
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My Backyard Blog (www.yourgardenretreatblog.com)Gardening..Grilling..Attracting wild life to my backyard..Decorating my outdoor space..Maintaining my Birdhouses, Birdbaths & Birdfeeders..
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The most gorgeous mixed-species “lawn” I’ve ever seen (www.sustainablegardeningblog.com)But because her land is in a A1 flood plain – meaning an area of special flood hazard – "care had to be given to the plant material and lawn, if there was to be any."
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10 Strangest Trees on Earth | ZuZu Top (zuzutop.com)Matthew Fox once said – “If you look closely at a tree you’ll notice its knobs and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.”
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Wedding between art and agriculture Farm Art (kultivator.org)KULTIVATOR is an experimental cooperation of organic farming
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Amazing Pictures of Color Striped Icebergs in Antarctic | DailyCognition.com (www.dailycognition.com)Icebergs in the Antarctic area sometimes have stripes, formed by layers of snow that react to different conditions.
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Landmine Monitor (www.lm.icbl.org)Landmine Monitor is an initiative providing research for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC). It is the de facto monitoring regime for the Mine Ban Treaty and the Convention on Cluster Munitions
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BioCycle (www.jgpress.com)BioCycle – The Only Magazine Advancing Composting, Organics Recycling & Renewable Energy
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Municipality of French River Waste Disposal Environmental Assessment (www.ene.gov.on.ca)The Municipality intends to proceed with the preparation of an EA, in accordance with the EAA to assess and address the waste disposal needs over a 40-year planning period.
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Shattercone preservation to be commended: reader - Allan Donaldson (www.northernlife.ca)I hope that the opinion of Scott Brooks (who previously wrote about the shatter cones in Northern Life) is not endorsed by many citizens of Sudbury. He, and others holding such views, should investigate how rapidly the concept of Geoparks has caught on abroad.
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The goal of this searchable, easy-to-navigate database is to raise public awareness of the rich diversity and interconnectedness of our shared designed landscape heritage
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Green space to rise from ashes of fire? (www.thesudburystar.com)The community wants to build something that will remind people of the significance of the site. The more time passes with the site empty, the more it becomes vital to recognize its importance, she said."We don't have a lot of green space in our area and we'd like to ensure that we don't get another parking lot," Wall said.
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Shatter-cones will be preserved - Rainbow Routes Association (www.northernlife.ca)Finally, may we suggest that Dr. Long and the Department of Earth Sciences at Laurentian arrange to have a “geo-heritage” plaque installed to highlight the location of the shatter-cones being preserved.
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A Force for Nature, (www.sources.com)Reynolds, Jason Priestley, William Shatner and Rachel Blanchard, star in A Force for Nature - a 30 minute television journey through some of our most magnificent but threatened landscapes.
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U.S. will not join treaty banning landmines (ca.news.yahoo.com)President Barack Obama has no plans to join a global treaty banning landmines because a policy review found the United States could not meet its security commitments without them, the State Department said on Tuesday.
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Downsview Park (www.downsviewpark.ca)Downsview Park integrates a national and natural resource within a park setting dedicated to the preservation and celebration of natural heritage. The vision for the 231.5-hectare (572-acre) Downsview Park is of a multipurpose recreational space, incorporating both open spaces and renovated heritage buildings relating to Canada's aviation history that will be a year-round attraction for the local community and for visitors.
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Canadian Botanical Conservation Network (www.rbg.ca)Our objective is to preserve the biological diversity of Canada's rare and endangered native plant species, wild habitats and ecosystems through the education and conservation programs
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Tad McGalliard, ICMA’s director of sustainability interviews Charlie Bartsch, a senior fellow with ICF International, to get his perspectives on the brownfields revitalization marketplace and what local governments and other stakeholders can do to keep the momentum going in their community, even in these tough economic times.
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45.Obit: Lawrence Halprin Oregons Green Landscape Architect (en.wikipedia.org)
Halperin recognized that "the garden in your own immediate neighborhood, preferably at your own doorstep, is the most significant garden;" and as part of a seamless whole, he valued "wilderness areas where we can be truly alone with ourselves and where nature can be sensed as the primeval source of life."[
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46.On the idea of Private Parks and residential apartments (citystates.typepad.com)
In addition to the possibility of finding new friends and better interpersonal relationships the atrium offers a park to the residents all year round and the roof garden offers that amenity during the seasons when weather is appropriate.
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Vale Inco and Xstrata Nickel contribute millions to Sudbury Regreening Efforts (www.thesudburystar.com)Vale Inco and Xstrata Nickel have agreed to contribute $2.25 million over five years to accelerate Greater Sudbury's regreening program.The money will allow the city to kick-start its new draft biodiversity plan, released Friday, and begin planning for the next 40 years of regreening in Sudbury.
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Sudbury Residents embrace compost program - (www.thesudburystar.com)Sudbury's Green Cart program is on schedule and under-budget, city council heard at its regular meeting last night.Since the city started collecting curbside compostable materials in July, 38% of homes in Greater Sudbury have received a Green Cart and detailed instructions for its use, says Chantal Mathieu, manager of environmental services.
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Cement company was using land ' illegally' (www.northernlife.ca)Rainbow Concrete Industries Ltd. president Boris Naneff successfully convinced the city's planning committee Oct. 20 to re-zone a parcel of land so that the business will no longer be using the property “illegally” by operating a cement plant there.
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Michigan Land Use Institute, (www.mlui.org)A great website looking at Michigan's communities and their approach to economic revitalization and sound land planning approaches
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